Day six at Tokyo saw the start of the golf competition, while the focus began switching to track and field with the athletics starting on Friday.

For Stats Perform's man on the ground, Peter Hanson, Thursday was about seeking out some home comforts, traffic jams, and receiving a ticket boost.

You know the drill by now... read below to find out more about the goings on in Tokyo.

SOUNDS OF HOME PROVIDING A BOOST

Covering these Games is an absolute privilege, there's no doubt it. Especially given fans can't be in attendance.

But it can be a grind at times, too. The hours are long, the sleep is low, the stress can be high and it's hard to switch off and recuperate.

Now on the 10th day of my journey, today was a little more difficult than others. At such times it's good to just have the sounds of home...

So, thanks to Milburn and Arctic Monkeys (Sheffield's finest) for giving me a much-needed boost to go again.

IN A BIT OF A JAM...

Having said that, my day was almost curtailed by a traffic jam...

On a bus to the Aquatics Centre, usually around a 20-minute ride, the cars piled back in their droves on the motorway (or is it freeway here?).

Thankfully it arrived just in the nick of time for me to pass through security and set up for the first race.

Luckily, there's an eight-hour gap to the UK so most of the grand folks back home were none the wiser anyway... the perfect crime.

A DASH FOR TICKETS

You may remember from earlier in the week about the need even as accreditated media to apply to "high-demand" events.

That includes every evening session for the athletics, which start on Friday.

Well, after being on tenterhooks for the last couple of days, the message finally arrived and – thanks to Team GB – I'm headed to the women's and men's 100m finals over the weekend!

'LONER' DRESSEL AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT

Today was my penultimate visit to the aquatics centre and boy was I treated to a thriller in the men's 100m freestyle.

The victor of that race was Caeleb Dressel, the American tipped as the heir to the great Michael Phelps in the pool.

On this occasion he went stroke-for-stroke with defending champion Kyle Chalmers, pipping his rival by just 0.06 seconds.

Afterwards Dressel said: "I don't talk to many people at these meets. I'm kind of a loner, a little bit of a weirdo."

I can certainly relate to being a bit of weirdo. I cannot relate to being the impressive physical specimen the 24-year-old is.