TOKYO (Reuters) - Boxers from Britain and Ireland powered onto the semi-finals at the 2020 Olympics on Friday, securing bronze medals at the very least, as their pugilist siblings roared them on from the stands at a spectator-less arena.

TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Boxers from Britain and Ireland powered onto the semi-finals at the 2020 Olympics on Friday, securing bronze medals at the very least, as their pugilist siblings roared them on from the stands at a spectator-less arena.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bond funds enjoyed the largest inflows in three weeks at $12.7 billion in the week to Wednesday with investors putting a record amount of $3.2 billion into Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), BofA said on Friday.

TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma cruised into the final of the Olympic men's 3,000 meters steeplechase with the fastest time of 8:09.83 on Friday as he bids to end Kenya's long-held domination of the event.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Reigning World champion Jiri Prskavec from the Czech Republic finished first In the men's kayak slalom semifinal on Friday, setting up a contest for gold with Germany's Hannes Aigner in the final later in the day.

TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Spain reached the quarter-finals of the men's Olympic hockey tournament on Friday after scoring a last-minute equalizer against group winners Australia, which gave them the draw they needed to advance.

TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Ryan Murphy lost the second of his Rio backstroke titles to Russian Evgeny Rylov at the 2020 Olympics on Friday and the U.S. swimmer then suggested doping had played a part in his demise as events took an acrimonious turn at the Tokyo pool.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Boxing world champion Kellie Ann Harrington said Ireland was punching above its weight at the Tokyo Games and hailed the performance of the country's rowers after they won a first Olympic gold medal in the sport.

TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - The women's 100 meters round-one heats exploded into life on Friday on day one of the track and field events, after the Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou roared across the finish line with a blistering 10.78 seconds at a hot and spectator-less Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.