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4.37pm BST
Ireland’s men’s hockey team are looking to win their first game after two defeats against the impressive Germany. It’s still scoreless six minutes into the first period, but now Murray and Monaco are taking to the court … so let’s keep an eye trained on that for a while. There is a big crowd in, mostly supporting Murray, though I can eye a couple of Argentinian shirts and flags too.
4.35pm BST
Burton gets halfway through the course with everything looking good but then his horse, Santano II, knocks one over with his hind legs. And – oh dear – the second last hurdle also topples over. France win, Germany move into silver and Australia take bronze. The individual jumping final takes place later this afternoon.
4.32pm BST
The equestrian team contest is going down to the wire: Christopher Burton of Australia must complete a clear round to give his team the gold. If not it will go to France.
4.28pm BST
Madison Keys is into the quarter-finals of the women’s tennis after a three-set win (6-3, 3-6, 6-3) over Spain’s Carla Suárez Navarro. Next up on the centre court is Andy Murray and Juan Monáco … after Keys milks the celebrations. She is rightly very pleased.
4.23pm BST
The full story on Geraint Thomas’ inclusion in tomorrow’s cycling time trial.
Related: Team GB cyclist Geraint Thomas handed bonus place in men’s time trial
4.20pm BST
Full-time at the rugby sevens. Great Britain have beaten Kenya 31-7. Quite straightforward for GB against a team that were tipped by many to have a strong tournament.
4.09pm BST
In the rugby sevenseseses, Phil Burgess, Dan Bibby and Mark Bennett have crossed for tries. Great Britain lead Kenya 24-0 at half-time. Impressive.
4.03pm BST
I am at the canoe slalom course, which is next door to the BMX course. This pedaling and paddling complex is ostensibly in Deodora but quite literally in the middle of nowhere. British canoeist David Florence is competing in the canoe slalom today and hoping to add gold to the two silvers he’s won in previous games. A pair of intrepid British reporters, who I won’t name, have just got a massive bollocking from some Olympic wonk for straying into forbidden territory as they “walked the course”. I haven’t walked the course, but I have looked at it. It can confirm it’s downhill and full of water that looks quite clean.
4.03pm BST
Oh look, it’s the men’s rugby sevens. Great Britain have started their campaign against Kenya and Dan Norton’s early try has put the team in red in front.
4.01pm BST
Well, this is rubbish.
Bins at #RioOlympics2016 give the impression of being recycling-friendly.
Both sides go into the same bin bag. pic.twitter.com/nupA4um6X9
4.00pm BST
Beach volleyball, it turns out, is not a young man’s game. The US have four of the six oldest men’s athletes (ranging from 36-40) in the competition but are still doing pretty well. The US team of Dalhausser and Lucena have just closed out a two set victory over the Mexican team of Virgen and Ontiveros in the preliminary round. The American pair are unbeaten so far and face Italy on Thursday.
3.56pm BST
The USOC chairman, Larry Probst, told the Guardian on Tuesday morning that he did not hear swimmer Lilly King’s denunciation of American track star Justin Gatlin the night before. King, who has been outspoken about her Russian swimming rival Yulia Efimova’s previous doping suspensions, was asked if Gatlin should not be on the US team because he was once served a one-year doping ban. “Do I think someone who has been caught for doping should be on the team? No I don’t,” she said. Aside from saying he did not know of her comments, Probst did not say anything further about King, but USOC officials said they would not reprimand the 100m gold medalist for her criticism of Gatlin.
The things you'll see when an Olympic athlete is from Evansville pic.twitter.com/FuLwNToKVN
3.55pm BST
There is some good action to come in the tennis later on. Both Andy Murray (12.15pm) and Rafa Nadal (1.45pm) are in action in the men’s draw, against Juan Monaco and Andreas Seppi, respectively. The women’s highlights include Serena Williams v Elina Svitolina (3.15pm) and Svetlana Kuznetsova taking on Jo Konta (12.30pm).
3.44pm BST
I’m at the Marina Gloria for the first glimpse of Giles Scott, who goes in the Finn, isn’t Ben Ainslie and will be trying to win gold in an event Britain has aced in some form at every Games since 2000. So no pressure. Some early weirdness here as sailors competing today are made to wait outside in the sun at a queue for what appears to be the only entrance, behind hacks, wonks, volunteers, Olmypic odd-jobs and so on. They’re all very good about it, although a Canadian going in the Finn starts to grumble a bit after ten minutes or so. Finally after some complaints (ahem, no charge for this service IOC) the security people create a preferential lane and athletes are ushered through.
I’m looking forward to seeing the crystal waters of the much-derided marina. One British rowing official suggested yesterday the water was actually fine, and it was “almost good enough to drink”. Going outside now to test this theory with a plastic cup and a straw. If you don’t hear from me again, well, it’s been fun… tell them… tell them… I tried to do my best.
3.43pm BST
From the equestrian centre, a minor piece of history:
The first Zimbabwean rider to compete in an Olympic equestrian event cleared a difficult cross country course that trapped many more experienced riders.
Camilla Kruger, 29, grew up on her family’s farm in the Southern African nation riding race horses but moved to England to finish school and train. She hopes to win a medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
3.38pm BST
Chris Hoy has an ominous warning
Men's TP up for a flying effort. All the other nations' coaches stopwatches appear out their pockets.. #flying pic.twitter.com/01cg4JBIxQ
3.28pm BST
Geraint Thomas, after falling off his bike in Saturday’s road race, has been confirmed fit to ride in tomorrow’s time trial.
3.26pm BST
There is now a break in the equestrianism and on the UK feed I’m watching the commentators think their microphones are off. They’re not and anybody tuned in can listen to their nattering – they’ve moved from complaining about a rider falling off and it being shown repeatedly to learning how to samba. Let’s hope nothing below the belt is muttered, for their sakes.
3.16pm BST
Michael Rotich, the Kenyan track and field team manager who was sent home from the Olympics, has been arrested, and prosecutors are asking for him to be held in custody because they think he will interfere with investigations.
He was sent back to Kenya on Saturday when it emerged he had been secretly filmed by undercover reporters who claimed he asked for a bribe to give prior warnings of anti‑doping tests.
3.14pm BST
Mark Cavendish has weighed in on the Lizzie Armitstead whereabouts controversy.
“Did she dope? No and I don’t believe she did. Was it an administrative error? Yes it was, absolutely? Was it her fault? Yes it was, absolutely,” Cavendish told Sky Sports. “I know from personal experience how difficult the whereabouts system can be,” the Manxman said. “But I have an alarm on my phone every night at 6pm and my wife has one on her phone and she makes a habit of when we talk every night she will ask me: ‘Have you done your whereabouts?’”
3.12pm BST
To the equestrian jumping arena, which looks less than a third full, there is still some confusion surrounding an appeal from the Brazilian team because of a DQ in yesterday’s competition. They appear to have won that appeal and are back in the competition but there may now be a counter appeal and we are bordering on farce.
2.57pm BST
What a race in the opening men’s lightweight fours semi-finals. Italy have pipped France, with New Zealand in third. Great Britain run out of steam towards the end to trail in fourth.
2.56pm BST
A quick blast of la Marseillaise around the Future Arena from the raucous French fans and reigning Olympic champions France have beaten Qatar 35-20 in their handball pool match.
2.50pm BST
Quote of the day alert: John Collins, who has made it into the men’s pairs final with Jonathan Walton, is so happy he has just told BBC that: “If I get hit by a bus today, I’ll die a happy man.”
2.47pm BST
Olympic controls on freedom of speech have been challenged by a Brazilian judge who has ordered Rio 2016 organisers to allow peaceful protests inside stadiums.
The preliminary ruling on Monday night came after several spectators were expelled from Olympic arenas for displaying anti-government banners and T-shirts that highlighted the country’s ongoing political turmoil.
2.40pm BST
You’ve seen those weird bruise-like marks on Michael Phelps and others in the past couple of days, right?
Here’s an explainer on “cupping”, a type of Chinese therapy that apparently helps ease tiredness. Does it work or is it a placebo?
2.28pm BST
And in the women’s pairs, Britain’s Grainger and Thornley have turned in a good performance in the second women’s pairs semi to finish second to Poland, with France coming third. And Australia and New Zealand, big favourites, have been eliminated.
Update: full results
2.26pm BST
More from the rowing: some results from the men’s pairs, where New Zealand were the fastest across both semis but the top three in the first race were quicker than Great Britain, who finished second in the second.
Semi-Final A/B 1: 1 Italy 6mins 24.96secs, 2 Australia 6:25.25, 3 France 6:26.10, 4 Netherlands 6:26.94, 5 USA 6:33.95, 6 Romania 6:48.17.
Semi-Final A/B 2: 1 New Zealand 6mins 23.36secs, 2 Great Britain 6:26.37, 3 South Africa 6:27.59, 4 Hungary6:29.12, 5 Serbia 6:31.00, 6 Czech Republic 6:32.85.
2.19pm BST
Is there a worse feeling at the Games than finishing fourth? Britain’s women’s sevens team looked absolutely distraught after losing their bronze medal match to Canada last night and the players are still evidently upset. Check out this mea culpa:
Thank you for everyone's support throughout our/ my journey . pic.twitter.com/iynUU1cOGV
2.16pm BST
Full-time in the women’s water polo, Hungary have beaten China 13-11 in a high quality group B game. Both teams will fancy their chances of progressing on that evidence.
The eventing team final is just getting underway, so we will place some attention on that for a bit from now. It is the first gold event of day four, after all. Belgium are the very early leaders.
2.12pm BST
Victoria Pendleton, the former British cyclist turned amateur jockey, has been on UK radio discussing the Brazilian crowd’s treatment of certain athletes. “I disagree wholeheartedly with the idea of fellow athletes booing at the Olympics,” she said. “Don’t cheer, fine, but don’t boo.”
2.03pm BST
Hungary lead China 12-9 after three periods in the water polo now, and here are some more rowing results (again the first three from reach race advance to Thursday’s semi-finals) …
Women’s single sculls quarter-finals
Race one: 1 E Twigg (NZ) 7mins 31.79secs, 2 M Topinkova Knapkova (CZ) 7:37.04, 3 K L Alanis (Mex) 7:44.11, 4 Y Kim (Kor) 7:51.80, 5 G Mosqueira (Par) 7:54.49, 6 S Rafa’ee (Sin) 7:56.00.
1.54pm BST
Annemiek van Vleuten, the Dutch cyclist who suffered that horrible crash in the women’s road race on Sunday, is up and about again – but showing some nasty bruising. She also has a number of fractures.
Thanks for all the messages. Hard to deal with my disappointment but also proud about our performance #teamNL pic.twitter.com/9uRaRniFV6
1.52pm BST
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1.42pm BST
In the women’s individual archery, Britain’s Naomi Folkhard is into the last 16 after a sudden-death win over Indonesia’s Ika Rochmawati. Folkhard hit a nine to Rochmawati’s seven having led 4-0 after two sets only to bring the duel into a shootout with her final arrow in the fifth to make it 6-6.
1.33pm BST
Report from the early rowing action, via Reuters.
New Zealand rower Mahe Drysdale scored a huge psychological victory over his friend and arch-rival Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic in the Olympic men’s single sculls quarter-final, overhauling him in the final section on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon.
The two have one of rowing’s great rivalries and for them to meet at this stage of the competition was a treat for fans.
1.26pm BST
I’m at the Futures Arena to see Qatar play France. The former came second in the world championships in Doha amid much controversy about their “league of nations” side naturalised from around the world. The latter won gold in Beijing and London. Will be an interesting day for Bertrand Roine, the Qatar full back who won a world championship with France in 2011 and switched nationality in 2013. Might be a bit awks during the anthems, in particular.
1.24pm BST
China v Hungary in group B of the women’s water polo is turning into a belter. Hungary currently lead 4-3 late in the second period having been 3-2 down two minutes ago.
1.15pm BST
Some early day four results:
Rowing: men’s single sculls quarter-finals (first three from each race progress to Thursday’s semis)
12.59pm BST
In the US there is inevitable overlap between the election and the Games. Observers reckon Hillary Clinton paying for adverts during live broadcasts are giving her an advantage over Donald Trump, who has not aired a single commercial yet.
The Democratic presidential nominee is airing $13.6m in campaign commercials during the Games, seeking to reach the millions of television viewers who can’t skip past the commercials as they watch live coverage of the Olympics.
She has the audience to herself, as Trump has yet to air his first paid TV ad of the general election campaign.
Apple is threatening to crash Samsung’s expensive Olympics party. Samsung is mobile phone sponsor of the Rio Games and sells its handsets exclusively to hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking to Olympic venues – but Apple is tempting some of them outside with its own unofficial Games merchandise.
It is using an Apple Store about six miles from the main Olympic park as the sole outlet for special-edition Apple watch bands. Some buyers, including top athletes, have been proudly advertising their new bands on social media.
12.38pm BST
This is fun – take a virtual audio tour of Rio’s marathon route with our slick app.
Related: RioRun: take a virtual audio tour of Rio de Janeiro as you go
Related: How Sun Yang caught up with Chad le Clos to claim gold in the 200m freestyle
12.26pm BST
While we wait for the action to properly kick-off – rowing in a few minutes! – a personal highlight of the Games so far was this interview from Gary and Paul O’Donovan who won their lightweight double sculls heat yesterday. Listen to their answer to the wind question! Fantastic.
12.13pm BST
Hello there. Rio is waking up and play is about to begin on the tennis courts. We also have some early rowing, a bit of water polo. And an hour from now there will be fencing, archery and shooting too.
12.06pm BST
The clock has reached midday in London (8am in Rio) and that means it is time for me to tag out and hand over to my colleague Alan Smith. Here’s a reminder of the headlines so far with a couple of handy links … Woop.
11.48am BST
Some interesting cycling news from Mark Cavendish …
Mark Cavendish will not get chance to ride Team Pursuit in Rio unless team mate becomes injured. Says TP the only reason he left Tour early.
Mark Cavendish says disappointed to not get to ride the Olympic Team Pursuit, but "Brad wants the glory", referring to Wiggins' Olympic goal
11.44am BST
Isn’t that a sight for sore eyes?
Here Comes The Sun doo-dn-do-dooo. Here Comes The Sun. It's alright at #Lagoa Stadium #RowingInRio @Rio2016. pic.twitter.com/YuaRRCjLrN
11.37am BST
There is, of course, a football competition going on at the Olympics but the host nation Brazil are in danger of going out in the group stage of the men’s tournament. Barney Ronay reports …
Sem jogo, sem gol e sem amor” was the verdict in O Globo on Brazil’s latest Olympic horror, the 0-0 draw with Iraq in Brasilia. No game, no goal, no love. Just an oddly familiar kind of angst and the latest significant staging post in the theatre of pain that has become Brazilian tournament football. In Brasilia the home fans cheered the opposition, chanted the name of Marta and generally continued the theme of domestic meltdown that has gripped this serial host nation in the last two years. Welcome back, o jogo collapsico.
Brazil may be ambivalent about some aspects of this Olympics, torn in some sections about the sense of something plonked down among them. But football? That is a little different. The peculiar obsession with capturing the Olympic title, the one honour to evade them so far, has been well documented. Brazil picked a powerful, well-stocked squad for these home games. Neymar is, on the numbers, arguably the biggest star at the Olympics. No other player of his stature, no other £30m wonderkid signing – enter Gabriel Jésus, newly of Manchester City – will be detained at this late stage in the pre-season with events in Salvador, São Paulo and Rio.
11.28am BST
Here’s a spot of news for you from the media desk …
Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow’s bronze medal victory drew a peak UK audience of almost 8 million – the biggest live TV audience for any event at the Rio Olympics so far.
Daley and Goodfellow’s medal-winning performance in the 10m synchronised diving competition, secured by the slimmest of margins over Germany on the pair’s final dive, attracted a five-minute peak audience of 7.7 million viewers to BBC1 on Monday night.
11.22am BST
Here’s a reminder that live action begins with the rowing in just a little over an hour with fencing, archery, shooting and water polo all due to begin at 9am.
11.17am BST
Which great has been giving the men’s a team talk?https://t.co/pkLpZLEqA1#RoadtoRio pic.twitter.com/BtSa18fh7y
Sir Chris Hoy, that’s who.
11.14am BST
Should be of American allegiance – or perhaps even if not – this is for you.
11.02am BST
More now from the mother of Dan Goodfellow whose alleged airbrushing from history following his 10m synchro diving bronze with Tom Daley has caused quite the furore.
The mother of diver Dan Goodfellow said he was “happy to stay in the background” after he and more famous partner Tom Daley won bronze at the Olympics. The hashtag Where’s Daniel Goodfellow trended on Twitter after some newspapers showed a photo of Daley alone celebrating the win at the Rio poolside.
Goodfellow’s mother Sharon said: “Daniel doesn’t mind. He’s quite happy to stay in the background.” Goodfellow, 19, achieved the success at the 10-metre synchro event with Daley, 22, on day three of the Rio Olympics. Speaking on TV show This Morning, Ms Goodfellow said she was still “quite in shock”. She watched the competition unfold from the family home near Cambridge.
10.58am BST
Time for a recap of today’s gold medals on offer, courtesy of my colleague Claire Phipps’ exhaustive briefing earlier.
10.53am BST
This is just excellent …
Bottle flipping, Olympic edition @ieuanlloyd1 #HeadInTheGame :@danwallace93 #TEAMGB #BringOnTheGreat pic.twitter.com/AkVxHR1wzu
10.40am BST
I’m just going to post this below and go and get a coffee … back shortly.
Related: Commentators take gloss off female Olympians' efforts and medals
10.22am BST
More now on a war of words that is showing absolutely no signs of dying down. The Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, a convicted doper who finished second to Lilly King, has hit back at the American gold medallist …
I understand the people who didn’t congratulate me because the media was full of fake stories about me. But on the other hand I don’t really understand the foreign competitors. All athletes should be above politics, but they just watch TV and believe everything they read. I always thought the Cold War was long in the past. Why start it again, by using sport?
10.08am BST
Just two and a half hours to go until some live sport! And first up will be the rowing and another bumper day on the lake after all of Sunday’s action was lost to wind. As a result it’s a sport which feels like a bit of a slow burner but there are a number of quarter-finals, semi-finals and repechages today.
9.53am BST
It’s a valid question and DJ Gallo has the answer …
Related: How can you call America great when it's never even won a badminton medal?
9.48am BST
Amusing …
9.39am BST
Some really rather sad news from the weightlifting now …
A celebratory occasion for a Thai Olympic bronze medal winner’s family has turned somber the athlete’s grandmother collapsed and died minutes before he won the third place in the 56-kg weightlifting category in Rio.
A mourning ritual was being held Tuesday at the home of Sinphet Kruithong, whose grandmother was among scores of family and friends watching his event live on a big television screen set up for the occasion in his village in northeastern Thailand.
9.25am BST
Great Britain have developed an unfortunate habit of finishing fourth so far in Rio. The men’s gymnastics team along with Richard Kruse, Hannah Miley and James Guy have all finished just outside of the medal places.
The good news is that there are plenty of opportunities to put that right today and perhaps the best of them is David Florence, the British slalom canoeist and one-time aspiring astronaut who once lost out on a job to Tim Peake (not the British Gymastics press officer, the other one).
9.09am BST
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9.03am BST
Doping is an issue that not even the Usain Bolt circus is immune from. There was however a Norwegian journalist on hand to wrap to the Jamaican sprint king and declare his love for him. Sean Ingle was there to bear witness.
To the Cicada des Arts, a sprawling cultural complex in Barra, to join the sweaty throng for Usain Bolt’s pre-Olympic press conference. Or, more accurately, 20 minutes of softballing questions from the hundreds of the world’s media, in which the Jamaican sprinter was told “Your way of dealing with the pressure makes Brazilian people want to marry you a little more,” and rapped to by a Norwegian journalist, who also told Bolt he was in love with him.
At the finale Bolt was joined on the stage by scantily clad Samba dancers, who he danced along to in perfect time. His sponsor’s, Puma, had chosen the venue – a large theatre – well.
8.53am BST
And here’s another one of those snazzy interactive graphics for Sun Yang’s 200m freestyle gold medal …
Related: How Sun Yang caught up with Chad le Clos to claim gold in the 200m freestyle
8.51am BST
A quick reminder for those of you just joining me that the headlines from Tuesday night in Rio centred around Lilly King’s 100m breaststroke gold medal and the subsequent shots fired at convicted doper and silver medallist Yulia Efimova. Sun Yang, another convicted doper, won the men’s 200m freestyle to fan the flames further.
Read Robert Kitson’s report from a compelling night.
8.39am BST
Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Olympics for “gravely” violating team rules by going out for a night of drinking in Rio after qualifying for the finals of the rings event, the Dutch team said.
The 33-year-old left the Olympic village on Saturday evening and spent the night celebrating before he returned in the early hours of Sunday morning, violating rules concerning alcohol consumption and leaving the team base.
8.35am BST
Now Lilly King’s comments about Yulia Efimova and indeed her USA team-mate Justin Gatlin sent shockwaves through the pool but it was Australia’s Mack Horton who lit the touch paper at the swimming venue so to speak with his comments about China’s Sun Yang, who hit back with his 200m freestyle gold on Tuesday.
The IOC took umbrage with Horton’s comments but the Australia has given any attempts to silence him particularly short shrift.
8.29am BST
Here are some of the best pictures from day three in Rio …
Related: Brazil's first gold, Usain Bolt's samba: Rio Olympics 2016: day three – in pictures
8.24am BST
This is bordering on parody …
Related: Russian TV likens Michael Phelps cupping therapy to meldonium
8.15am BST
A quick word on Great Britain now and as you’ll see from the video, the women’s rugby sevens team missed out on the medals, losing their bronze medal match and ending up fourth. Indeed, four has become the not so magic number for Great Britain with James Guy and the men’s gymnastics team joining Hannah Miley and Richard Kruse in finishing just outside the medals.
Thankfully, Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow bucked the trend but a number of British newspapers were criticised for seemingly airbrushing Goodfellow out of history. Read more about that here.
8.10am BST
If you prefer pictures to words, I have just the thing for you. It’s our latest highlights package, featuring Lilly King’s 100m breaststroke gold and the first ever Olympic rugby sevens medals.
8.05am BST
… do be sure to have a read of this excellent piece from Andy Bull, who lays the blame square at the door of swimming’s world governing body, Fina, for the continued doping controversy.
In the long history of the Games there can’t have been many sadder silver medalists than Yulia Efimova.
It wasn’t the race, or that she finished second. She said herself that it was “the best I can do right now”.
8.01am BST
As a quick aside, good news for the Argentina golfer Emiliano Grillo, who has been reunited with his golf clubs after they went missing in transit. American Airlines mislaid his clubs en route to Brazil and Grillo was not too happy about it, tweeting: “AmericanAir delays, rerouting and 20+ calls can’t find my golf bag. I am going to miss my chance to compete in the Olympics. Rio2016. AmericanAir seriously, find me a human in JFK, MIA, or Sao Paolo that can physically look for my bag and confirm where it is and send it.”
But there was a happy ending on Tuesday morning as Grillo tweeted a picture of himself hugging his recovered bag. “I am never letting you go again... Until next flight...” he wrote.
I am never letting you go again... Until next flight...
Nunca más te dejo ir...
Hasta el próximo vuelo... pic.twitter.com/neeXxiHzo4
7.57am BST
As I say, doping dominated in the pool last night with Sun Yang and Yulia Efimova, convicted dopers who won gold and silver in their respective events, attracting considerable heat.
Here’s what the France swimmer Camille Lacourt has had to say. Spolier alert: he doesn’t hold back: “Sun Yang, he pisses purple … When I see the 200m podium I want to be sick. I am very sad when I see my sport getting like this. I have the impression I am looking at athletics, with two or three doped in each final.”
7.46am BST
Hello world! Thanks very much to Claire for that exhaustive briefing – I’m fairly sure I had some sleep last night but reading that it feels like I didn’t miss a thing.
Stay tuned for even more reaction from a dramatic night in the pool where doping dominated again while we’ll also be building up to today’s action, which gets under way at 8:30am at the rowing venue.
Related: Love wins: Brazilian women's rugby player gets first Olympic marriage proposal
7.00am BST
Day four dawns and everybody’s talking about drugs. In particular, Team USA’s newest gold medallist Lilly King is talking about drugs. And she is Not Happy about it.
We’ll have all the comments, reactions, tears, wins, losses and more on the day four live blog. But first: a catch-up of all you need to know about the action so far and what’s still to come.
Do I think someone who has been caught for doping should be on the team? No, I don’t.
I think it’s sad that we have people in sports today who are testing positive not only once, but twice, and still having the opportunity to swim at these Games.
We have had to go through a rough time before the good times. But in a few years the sport should be clean and I look forward to that.
Pretty bloody good, I’d say.
A lot of people don’t believe that Muslim women have voices or that we participate in sport. And it’s not to just challenge the misconceptions outside of the Muslim community but within the Muslim community.
I want to break cultural barriers. I want to show girls that it’s important to be active, that it’s important to be involved in sport.
other best rugby moment: Isadora Cerullo of #BRA says Yes as her partner (& #Rio2016 volunteer) Marjorie proposes pic.twitter.com/l10F2GcXqr
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