Thousands of people have had to evacuate Greece's second biggest island as severe wildfires rage.
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A total of 31 athletes from Northern Ireland made their way to Tokyo for the highly anticipated 2020 Olympics last month.
Their Olympic journey has now come to an end in what was a competition like no other due to the Covid-19 pandemic and a lack of spectators.
We take a look at how Northern Ireland’s sporting stars fared in Japan, including medal success for one local competitor.
Hockey
Ireland’s women's team - captained by Coleraine’s Katie Mullan - started with a 2-0 win over South Africa before defeats by the Netherlands, Germany, India and Great Britain.
The squad, which had more Northern Ireland players than any other event at the Tokyo Games – broke barriers by becoming the first Irish hockey team to qualify for the Olympics.
Also representing NI on the 16-player panel were Ayeisha McFerran, Shirley McCay and Lizzie Holden, with Zara Malseed travelling as a reserve.
Ten of the 16 that played against GB featured when the team made its way to a first World Cup final in 2018.
Meanwhile, David Ames and Ian Sloan bowed out at the quarter-final stage of the men's hockey with the Great Britain team, losing 3-1 to India and missing out on a medal place.
Triathlon
Banbridge's Russell White finished 48th in the men’s triathlon, clocking 1:54:40 - nine minutes and 36 seconds behind Norwegian winner Kristian Blummenfelt.
White broke his collarbone in March 2020 and noted that he probably wouldn’t have been at Tokyo if not for the year delay because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It was the 29-year-old’s first time at the Olympics. He initially finished outside the qualifying places, but was offered a reprieve following the retirement of Denmark's Andreas Schilling.
Shooting
Craigavon’s Kirsty Hegarty failed to reach the women’s trap shooting final after shooting 116 to finish 16th.
She also missed out on the medal rounds in the mixed team final, coming 10th in qualification with men’s bronze medallist Matt Coward-Holley.
Hegarty was the first Northern Irish athlete to be selected for the Games back in January.
Despite not medalling in Tokyo, the 32-year-old will begin preparations as she bids to win a second Commonwealth Games gold medal in Birmingham next year.
Cycling
There was disappointment for Dromore cyclist Mark Downey for At the Izu Velodrome.
Downey and Felix English failed to finish the men's Madison final - the Irish pair fought hard to stay in the race but were listed as DNF after losing a second lap on the bunch late on.
It was the 25-year-old’s first Olympic Games, and he follows in the footsteps of his father Séamus, who also cycled for Ireland in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Archery
Belfast archer Patrick Huston finished 25th in the round of 64 in the men’s individual event and placed eighth in the mixed team event with Sarah Bettles.
The 25-year-old was beaten 7-1 in the individual competition by Brazil’s Marcus D’Almeida, who is dubbed ‘archery’s Neymar’ in his home country.
Huston was one of just two GB archers that qualified for the Rio Olympics in 2016, and noted that having full men and women’s team this time around was a “big highlight”.
Golf
Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy just missed out on a bronze medal at the third sudden-death hole of a seven-way play-off for third place.
The Holywood golfer began the final round tied for fifth on 11-under, three shots behind Zander Schauffele – who ended up winning gold - and only one stroke outside the medals.
Jordanstown’s Stephanie Meadow ended four shots outside of the the medal places after firing a five-under-par final round of 66 to finish seventh in the women's golf.
She said: "I would like to have won a medal but it was still great. Getting to talk to people who are the best at what they do - you can always learn something whether it is horse riding, boxing or gymnastics."
Boxing
Team Ireland’s Olympic reputation is built on boxing success and four Northern Ireland boxers were selected for the squad.
Despite Aidan Walsh’s despair at having to withdraw with an ankle injury he sustained celebrating victory in his bronze medal fight, he returns to Belfast as the city’s ninth Olympic medallist.
The 23-year-old welterweight also paid tribute to his sister Michaela Walsh, who had her own Olympic dream ended with a loss to Italy’s Irma Testa, saying he would “cut the medal in half and give her half of it, that’s how much she means”.
Belfast flyweight and Team Ireland boxing captain Brendan Irvine also suffered defeat on day three along with Michaela Walsh.
Irvine, who was competing in his second Olympics, lost 4-1 on points to Carlo Paalam of the Philippines in the last-32 stage.
Lisburn featherweight Kurt Walker missed out on a bronze medal by a razor-thin split decision to the USA’s Duke Ragan, who has been fighting in the professional ranks for much of the last year.
Former Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh was in the American’s corner, but ironically was the one to bring Walker into the Irish team back in 2012.
He said that preventing Walker from achieving a medal was “the hardest thing” he’s ever done.
Gymnastics
Newtownards gymnast Rhys McClenaghan missed out on a medal with a seventh place finish in the final of the men’s pommel horse.
The 21-year-old fell off the horse early in his routine after losing his balance when his finger got caught under one of the handles, which he referred to as “the fine margins of gymnastics”.
In 2018, McClenaghan won Commonwealth and European gold, as well as a World Championship bronze medal in 2019, and he was seeking to become the first Irish gymnast to earn Olympic gold.
"I'm standing here in front of you an Olympian, an Olympic finalist and the first Irish gymnast to achieve that,” he said. “I'll be taking away from this a more dangerous man than ever before."
Swimming
Larne swimmer Danielle Hill failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the women’s 100m backstroke, finishing third in her heat with a time of 1:00.86 and coming 25th overall.
In the second and final event of her Olympic debut, the 21-year-old placed sixth with a time of 25.70 in her 50m freestyle heat.
Meanwhile, Daniel Wiffen broke his own Irish record with a 1500m freestyle win, finishing in a time of 15:07:69 and coming 20th overall.
It wasn’t enough to qualify the 20-year-old for the final, but it was another impressive result for the Magheralin man, who also broke the Irish national record for the 800m freestyle, clocking a personal best time of 7:51:65 which placed him 14th.
Bangor’s Jack McMillan led the Ireland men's 4x200m freestyle relay team to eighth place in their semi-final.
They finished 14th overall in the event, and are the first Irish men’s team to race at the Olympics, as well as the first Irish swimming relay team to compete at the Games since 1972.
Athletics
Ciara Mageean’s qualifying hopes for the 1500m semi-finals ended after the Portaferry athlete finished 10th in her first heat, with a time of 4:07:29.
The 29-year-old ended up outside the time required to repeat her semi-final appearance from the Rio Games in 2016, and she revealed afterwards that she had sustained a torn calf muscle eight days prior to the race.
Sprinter Leon Reid made his Olympic debut in the 200m and the Commonwealth bronze medallist progressed to the semi-finals, where he finished seventh with a time of 20.54 after a strong run to qualify from his heat.
Co Tyrone’s Eilish Flanagan failed to progress to the final of the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase, but the European Cross Country team silver medallist secured a PB time of 9:34.86 in the third heat to finish 12th.
Northern Ireland’s final competitors in action were Paul Pollock, Kevin Seaward and Stephen Scullion in the men's marathon.
Seaward finished 58th in a time of 2:21:45 with Pollock 71st after running 2:27:48 while Scullion dropped out around the 20km mark as he and a number of runners struggled in the hot conditions.
Rowing
Rebecca Shorten competed for Team GB in the women's four, who missed out on bronze by just over a second and came a full five seconds behind Australian, who won gold in 6:15.37 - an Olympic best time.
Coleraine-born Hannah Scott was part of GB’s women quadruple sculls crew which placed seventh overall and Aughnacloy’s Rebecca Edwards came fifth with the GB women’s eight in the repechage.
Banbridge native Philip Doyle, who has been working as a doctor throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, competed with Ronan Byrne in the men's doubles.
Despite being silver medallists at the 2019 World Championships, the pair failed to qualify from their double sculls repechage, thus missing out on a chance to stand on the Olympic podium.
Let's hope we see many of them again in Paris in 2024!
The “weaponisation” of migration by Belarus on its border with Lithuania and an imminent military exercise involving Russian and Belarusian troops risks an “incident” with Nato troops in the Baltic states or Poland, said Latvia’s foreign minister.
Edgars Rinkevics told the Financial Times there was an increased chance of “misunderstandings, some actions that are not approved by superiors” when Russia’s Zapad military exercise takes place next month.
“You have a border crisis, you have a major military exercise going on at the borders of Nato countries, you also have increased presence on our side, the Lithuanian side, Estonian side, Polish side of border guards, and military formations. Of course, this is increasing the possibility of incidents,” Rinkevics said.
There is growing unease in both the Baltic states and Brussels over the actions of the authoritarian regime of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko after a flawed election last year and the forced landing of an intra-EU flight in May to seize a journalist-activist.
Baltic officials say his latest tactic is to offer migrants from Iraq, Syria or several African countries a package that includes passage to the Lithuanian border. More than 4,000 migrants have crossed into Lithuania this year alone, more than 50 times the number that entered last year.
Rinkevics said this was “a very clear case of hybrid warfare” by deliberately using migration to target the EU and Lithuania.
“The migrants are actually being used as the weapon. The longer we live in this 21st century, the scarier it becomes. Things that we couldn’t imagine that could be used, they are being used,” he said.
Latvia’s foreign minister said he was encouraged by Iraq’s decision to suspend flights to Minsk, which, combined with Lithuanian border guards’ new tactic to “push back” migrants towards Belarus, has led to a significant decrease in the numbers crossing the frontier in recent days.
Tensions in the Baltic states rise every four years when Russia’s annual military exercises move to its western district bordering Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But Rinkevics said that this year’s Zapad exercise was particularly sensitive due to the “ongoing hybrid warfare element”.
He added: “Definitely this has rather high potential for incidents. Of course, if somebody is planning some deliberate provocations then one can see that. But I honestly don’t think there’s an interest to escalate that to a full-scale military provocation.”
Russia, which has a close union with Belarus, is one of the few supporters of Minsk. Rinkevics said he believed it was not in Moscow’s interests to be too closely associated with Lukashenko’s recent actions, which were “a little bit too scandalous”.
But he argued that Russia was likely to be involved in some way in Belarus’ recent actions. “Definitely it is difficult to imagine that such kind of actions could be done without some kind of backing, co-ordination and co-operation,” Rinkevics said.
The former head of Estonia’s armed forces, MEP Riho Terras, last week called on Nato to invoke its article 4 over the migration crisis; this calls for consultations among members of the military alliance. Invoking it would not be as serious as article 5, which declares an attack on one member is an attack on all, but is seen as symbolising Nato’s deep concern on an issue, and has been used several times by Turkey.
Rinkevics hinted that Latvia would back an article 4 call in the right circumstances. “If there is a real need to call for consultations with Nato allies, if we see a need for article 4 we will use that,” he said.
Taliban fighters have taken control of much of the key city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, according to local officials.
They have also entered the northern Sar-e Pul province.
In both areas, they have seized government buildings and captured weapons and ammunitions.
A Taliban offensive acrossAfghanistanhas continued to grow at an alarming rate in recent days, as US and NATO troops wrap up their withdrawal.
The group is reportedly targeting people who worked with the government and foreign agencies.
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Afghan security forces and government troops have retaliated with airstrikes aided by the US, but the fighting has raised concerns about civilian casualties.
Image:Afghans inspect damaged shops after fighting between Taliban and security forces in Kunduz
Mohammad Noor Rahmani, a provincial council member of Sar-e Pul province, said the Taliban had been driving officials out of the main city to a nearby military base.
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Meanwhile, an Afghan security forces spokesman said "extremely (heavy) fighting" was going on in Kunduz, which is one of the country's larger cities.
There are fears it could be the latest area to fall, which would be a significant gain for the group.
Kunduz, which has a population of more than 340,000, has good access to much of northern Afghanistan, as well as the capital Kabul, which is about 200 miles (322km) away.
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Officials said insurgents had taken control of the governor's office, police headquarters and the main prison building, with fighting continuing at its airport and in other parts of the city.
Health officials said 14 bodies - including those of women and children - and more than 30 injured people had been taken to hospital.
Amruddin Wali, a provincial lawmaker in Kunduz, said "heavy clashes" had started on Saturday.
The Taliban captured its first provincial capital in years when it took control of Zaranj, on the border with Iran, on Friday.
Shir Mohammad, a Jawzjan provincial council member, said most of the city, including provincial government buildings, had fallen.
However, a spokesman for the Afghan security forces denied the Taliban had taken the city, saying forces were working to defend it without causing civilian casualties.
China has constructed a vast network of bases to house the superpower's growing nuclear arsenal. Satellite images have captured what appears to be a new silo field under construction in the west of China. A nuclear nonproliferation expert has warned the US outlet Fox News that these new facilities are equipped with nuclear weapons capable of targetting the entire United States.
Fox News presenter Bret Baier reported: "A second missile field capable of housing nuclear missiles that could reach the US has just been discovered in China."
"For the second time in two months, new satellite photos show China building over a hundred silos to house nuclear missiles," continued Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson
"When complete it will have more than 200.
"That is half the number of land-based silos the US military has in the western United States."
Nuclear nonproliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis warned the newly discovered missile launch sites were capable of "soaking up" US nuclear strikes.
He told Fox News: "What silos are great for is soaking up enemy warheads.
"If you look at China's silos, which are now in the order of 230/40, it takes at least two nuclear warheads to destroy each silo."
According to Mr Lewis, the new Chinese bases will be able to launch multiple nuclear warheads at targets over 9,000 miles away.
"We have about the next four of five years to work out what the West needs to do to work with and allow a graceful avenue for China and the rest of the world to work together.
"If we don't find a solution then we will be so disempowered that China will hold all the cards."
The Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee continued: "That I think is going to make for a very miserable century."
Team GB was unofficially set a target of between 45 and 70 medals by UK Sport, although the funding body's chief executive Sally Munday said it was taking a more "holistic" approach given the lack of competition for athletes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Britain finished Tokyo 2020 with 65 medals, equalling their total as hosts in London nine years ago and making Tokyo their second-most successful overseas Olympics after Rio 2016.
Team GB chef de mission Mark England called the medal haul as "the greatest achievement in British Olympic history".
He said: "Not only has the team made history but it has probably made history on the back of the most complex and most challenging and difficult environment that we will face certainly in my lifetime.
"It has been against all the odds and I think it is the greatest achievement in British Olympic history. It has been the miracle of Tokyo and it has been wonderful to be here."
Here we take a look at how each sport fared in Tokyo relative to its funding.
Archery
Funding amount: £1,122,879
Medals: 0
Team GB have not won an Olympic medal in archery since 2004, and that run continued at Tokyo 2020.
Archery was one of several sports to lose its funding after the Rio Games five years ago, before UK Sport U-turned in 2018 and decided to reinstate financial support.
It has had its funding hugely increased for the Paris 2024 Olympic cycle, however, to more than £2.1m.
Athletics
Funding amount: £23,007,531
Medals: 6 (3 silver, 3 bronze)
Athletics funding was cut from £26,824,206 after the 2016 Games, at which GB won two golds, one silver and four bronzes.
Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir both broke British records as they claimed silver in the women's 800m and 1500m respectively, while the quartet of CJ Ujah, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard Kilty and Zharnel Hughes missed out on the 4x100m title by just a hundredth of a second.
There were bronze medals for Josh Kerr in the men's 1500m, Holly Bradshaw in the women's pole vault, and in the women's 4x100m for Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita.
The funding is set to be cut again, with the athletics squad receiving £22,175,520 for the next Olympic cycle.
Badminton
Funding amount: £946,779
Medals: 0
Team GB's badminton squad were unable to bring home any medals from Tokyo, capping a difficult five years for the sport since Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis' men's doubles bronze at Rio 2016.
Badminton lost all its UK Sport funding after Rio despite that medal, before a 2018 reprieve. Its funding for the Paris 2024 cycle has been massively increased to £3.2m.
A seven-strong squad competed in Tokyo, with Ellis and Lauren Smith reaching the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles and Toby Penty making the last 16 of the men's singles, showing promise for Paris in three years' time.
Boxing
Funding amount: £12,084,436
Medals: 6 (2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
Tokyo 2020 is Britain's most successful Olympics in the boxing ring since 1920, with six medals.
Lauren Price won middleweight gold, a day after Galal Yafai became Olympic flyweight champion. There were silver medals for Ben Whittaker (light-heavyweight) and Pat McCormack (welterweight), while Karriss Artingstall (featherweight) and team captain Frazer Clarke (super-heavyweight) claimed bronzes.
The team doubled their medal total from Rio, despite a funding cut of £1,680,001.
It is set to lose a further £688,929 before Paris.
Canoeing (sprint and slalom)
Funding amount: £16,344,693
Medals: 2 (1 silver, 1 bronze)
Liam Heath became Britain's most successful Olympic canoeist with K1 200m bronze - his fourth Olympic medal - while Mallory Franklin won women's canoe slalom silver.
The total of two medals was half what the sport won at the London and Rio Games, and the fewest medals won since the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Canoeing faces a huge funding cut for the Paris 2024 cycle, however, from £16.3m to £12.2m - more than 25%.
Cycling (track, road, BMX and mountain bike)
Funding amount: £24,559,306
Medals: 12 (6 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)
Team GB's cycling team had their funding cut by a huge £5,708,510 before Tokyo, but still won an impressive 12 medals across track cycling, mountain biking and BMX.
Tom Pidcock kicked things off with mountain bike cross-country gold, before Bethany Shriever won gold in the women's BMX racing final, moments after team-mate Kye Whyte claimed the nation's first Olympic medal in the event with silver in the men's.
There was another gold for Charlotte Worthington in the BMX freestyle, where team-mate Declan Brooks took bronze in the men's event.
In the velodrome, Great Britain won seven medals - more than any other nation in Tokyo.
Jason Kenny won his seventh Olympic gold with a spectacular defence of his men's keirin title. Two days earlier, his wife Laura became the first British woman to win gold at three Olympic Games, winning the madison alongside Katie Archibald.
It was an Olympic debut to remember for Matt Walls, who was crowned champion with a dominant performance in the omnium.
There were silvers for GB in the men's team sprint, the men's madison and the women's team pursuit, while Jack Carlin won an impressive bronze medal in the men's individual sprint.
Cycling will receive £3,042,378 more in funding for Paris 2024.
Diving
Funding amount: £7,223,280
Medals: 3 (1 gold, 2 bronze)
Team GB had their diving funding cut from £7,467,860 to £7,223,280 for Tokyo, but won the same number of medals as five years ago.
After winning one gold, one silver and one bronze in Rio, GB won a gold and two bronzes in Japan.
Tom Daley ended his long wait for an Olympic title with a sublime display alongside Matty Lee in the men's synchronised 10m then went on to win bronze in the individual event.
There was another medal on the men's 3m springboard, where Jack Laugher won bronze.
Diving will receive £8,463,542 for Paris.
Equestrian
Funding amount: £12,541,195
Medals: 5 (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
Equestrian lost £5,451,405 in funding before Tokyo 2020, but the team delivered more medals than they did in Rio five years ago.
Ben Maher won individual showjumping gold on Explosion W, after Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen won team eventing gold.
McEwen also won a silver in the individual event, and Charlotte Dujardin won her sixth Olympic medal with dressage bronze.
A day earlier, Dujardin claimed bronze in the team dressage event alongside Carl Hester and Charlotte Fry.
The equestrian team's funding will be reduced again for Paris, to £11,085,964.
Gymnastics (artistic and trampoline)
Funding amount: £13,408,688
Medals: 3 (1 gold, 2 bronze)
Team GB won seven gymnastics medals in Rio five years ago, but with a vastly different squad brought home only three from Tokyo.
Max Whitlock and Bryony Page - the only members of the squad to compete in both Rio and Tokyo - were among the medals, Whitlock retaining his pommel horse title and Page winning bronze on the trampoline to add to the bronze the women's artistic gymnasts won in the team all-around competition.
That bronze was GB's first medal in the women's team event for 93 years, while Whitlock's gold saw him become the most successful gymnast of all time on the pommel horse.
Gymnastics will receive slightly less - £12.5m - for the Paris 2024 cycle.
Hockey
Funding amount: £12,905,612
Medals: 1 (bronze)
Great Britain's women's hockey team entered the Tokyo Games as defending Olympic champions, but the five years since Rio have been difficult with captain Hollie Pearne-Webb saying it had been far from a rollercoaster because "there haven't been too many highs".
Just seven of the gold medal-winning squad from Rio competed in Tokyo, but they were able to put the difficulties of the last cycle behind them to win bronze - marking it the third Olympics in a row at which they have won a medal.
"For the girls it means a hell of a lot," said head coach Mark Hager. "It's so rewarding for the group. Four months ago, if you asked me if we could get a medal I'd probably have said no. We had belief so it's very pleasing."
The men's team were knocked out in the quarter-finals.
Judo
Funding amount: £6,564,334
Medals: 1 (bronze)
Chelsie Giles claimed Great Britain's first medal of the Tokyo Olympics with bronze in the women's -52kg event.
Judo will lose £1,117,530 in funding for Paris.
Modern Pentathlon
Funding amount: £5,498,321
Medals: 2 (2 gold)
Kate French's Olympic gold was Great Britain's first since Steph Cook's victory at Sydney 2000, with two silvers and a bronze won across the Athens, Beijing and London Games.
Joe Choong added a second gold in the men's event after finishing 10th in Rio five years ago.
Pentathlon GB faces a 20% cut to its funding for the Paris cycle.
Rowing
Funding amount: £24,655,408
Medals: 2 (1 silver, 1 bronze)
Rowing has historically been one of Team GB's most successful sports, and as such received the most funding for the Tokyo cycle, but took home just a silver and bronze from Japan.
Their two medals - in the men's quadruple sculls and men's eight respectively - is the team's lowest haul since Atlanta 1996, and the first time GB has failed to win a gold medal since 1980.
In December, it was announced rowing's funding had been reduced by about 10% to £22.2m for the Paris 2024 cycle.
British Rowing performance director Brendan Purcell said GB's performance in Tokyo was "heartbreaking" and "frustrating" but added: "We're really confident we're on the track to lift up and deliver in Paris."
Sailing
Funding amount: £22,249,000
Medals: 5 (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Sailing was one of the success stories for Team GB in Tokyo, as they finished as the top sailing nation for the fifth time in six Olympics.
Hannah Mills became the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time with her 470 gold alongside Eilidh McIntyre, adding to Giles Scott's Finn gold, Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell's 49er gold, John Gimson and Anna Burnet's Nacra 17 silver and Emma Wilson's windsurfing bronze.
After winning his second successive Finn title, Scott said British sailing was "in a good place" but much will change going into Paris, with the Finn class being dropped and the 470 changing to a mixed event.
Shooting
Funding amount: £6,008,790
Medals: 1 (bronze)
Team GB had their shooting funding boosted from £3,950,888 to £6,008,790 for Tokyo 2020.
Matthew Coward-Holley was going for gold, but had to settle for bronze in the men's trap shooting final.
Funding is set to be reduced to £5,802,749 for Paris.
Sport climbing
Funding amount: £678,722
Medals: 0
Shauna Coxsey was Team GB's sole hope as sport climbing made its Olympic debut but Coxsey, set to retire after the Games, failed to reach the women's final.
Climbing is one of seven sports that will receive 'progression' funding during the Paris 2024 cycle, "marking the start of a programme of support in the long-term medal potential". It has been awarded £1,562,811.
Swimming
British swimming's remarkable Tokyo 2020 campaign will not be forgotten in a hurry, such was the success in the pool.
Eight medals, four of them gold, made it GB's greatest ever Olympic performance in the pool and the first time in 113 years that GB had won four swimming golds at one Games.
It was kick-started by Adam Peaty winning the 100m breaststroke to become the first British swimmer to retain an Olympic title, before Duncan Scott claimed four medals - the most by a Briton at a single Games.
"I really do think this squad is going to go from strength to strength heading to Paris," said four-time Olympic medallist Rebecca Adlington.
"None of our top swimmers will be stopping and there are loads of talented female and male swimmers who aren't even in Tokyo who will be bursting through soon, so it's looking very bright for the future."
Britain's taekwondo hopes were dealt a blow early on when two-time defending champion Jade Jones suffered a shock defeat in the first round.
But up stepped Bradly Sinden and Lauren Williams, who won silvers in their respective events, before Bianca Walkden added a second bronze medal to her collection.
It meant GB Taekwondo equalled its record haul from Rio 2016, despite missing out on gold for the first time since 2008.
British athletes are a common sight on the Olympic triathlon podium and Tokyo 2020 was no different, with three medals.
Alex Yee kicked off the success, winning men's silver on his Olympic debut, before Georgia Taylor-Brown added another silver in the women's event.
But better was to come as Yee and Taylor-Brown teamed up with Jonny Brownlee and Jess Learmonth to win gold in the mixed relay event, ensuring Brownlee would bid farewell to the Olympics with a complete set of medals.
British Triathlon will receive a slight reduction in funding for Paris but with young athletes like Yee taking over the mantle from the Brownlees, the future looks bright.
Skateboarding received just £197,725 from UK Sport but Sky Brown's bronze medal at the age of 13 means more Olympic success could be on the agenda at future Games.
Like sport climbing, skateboarding, basketball, fencing, surfing, table tennis and weightlifting will all receive 'progression' funding from UK Sport for the Paris cycle.
In weightlifting, Emily Campbell became the first British woman to win an Olympic medal with her +87kg silver - Great Britain's first Olympic weightlifting medal since 1984.
That came despite the sport losing its UK Sport funding after Rio 2016.
