In photos: Tokyo Olympics 2020 - best of the action from Day 3

From athletes mimicking Superman to practicing dance moves while competing, it's all here

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Imran Malik, Assistant Editor
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1/11
Abdullah Alrashidi of Kuwait looking for his gun during the Men's Skeet Final at the Asaka Shooting Range, Tokyo, Japan. Psst! It's on your shoulder...
Reuters
2/11
India's Manika Batra regrets using that new hairspray during her table tennis match against Austria's Sofia Polcanova. Seems like the ball's got stuck to her head...
PTI
3/11
No pain no gain! Rustam Orujov of Azerbaijan looks like he's readjusting his nose during his Men's 73kg judo match.
Reuters
4/11
Wait! We don't have to do this... Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia tries to talk his way out of his bout with Shohei Ono of Japan during the Men's 73kg judo match.
Reuters
5/11
Britain's Karriss Artingstall would be amazing in a blinking contest. She's taken a jab on the nose from Brazil's Jucielen Romeu during the women's boxing event and isn't even flinching!
AFP
6/11
Chinese gymnast Wei Sun tries to show off after competing in the pommel horse event by flexing his muscles - but even we have bigger biceps than this...
AFP
7/11
Ireland's Nhat Nguyen looks like he's practicing a new dance move while hitting a shot to Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne in their men's singles badminton group stage match.
AFP
8/11
Yevgen Yudenkov of Ukraine in action on the horizontal bar. We bet it's as painful as it looks...
Reuters
9/11
It's a bird... It's a plane... It's... Oh, it's Kazuma Kaya of Japan in action on the rings.
Reuters
10/11
We don't know if Manon Brunet of France is happy or angry after winning her Fencing Women's Individual Sabre match. She has a sword in her hands so we're not going to bother her...
Reuters
11/11
Drat, I missed her again! No matter how hard she tries, Australia's Ellen Perez just can't get her partner Samantha Stosur during their Women's Doubles match against Monica Niculescu and Raluca Olaru of Romania at Ariake Tennis Park.
Reuters

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