Great leaps forward

It's onwards and upwards for Team China after breakthroughs abound at Tokyo 2020

Reinforcing its strengths, smashing records and outstripping expectations, Team China delivered an Olympic campaign that perhaps even exceeded its own ambitions in Tokyo.

After the curtain came down on the Games on Sunday, the Chinese delegation boarded their flights home having served up two weeks of spine-tingling action that transcended the sporting landscape to cheer the entire nation.