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7.57pm BST
17.733 for Biles - enough for the lead, but unlikely to be enough for gold!
7.55pm BST
“Not long now until the evening’s cycling entertainment begins in the velodrome. Laura Trottt and Mark Cavendish are in action for Team GB, with both occupying medal positions after one and four of their respective disciplines in the omnium. Trott finished second in the scratch race this morning, while Cav was sixth in the kilometre time trial to maintain his overnight position in third. He’s 14 points ofd the lead and has everything to pedal for with the flying lap and potentially lucrative points race to come.
With Becky James and Katy Marchant having qualified for tomorrow’s quarter-finals of the women’s sprint this morning, the placings of 9th through to 12th will be decided this afternoon. A fairly insignificant news, you might say and normally you’d be right, but defending champion Anna Meares finds herself slumming it along the also-rans having failed to qualify for the last eight. The Australian will leave Rio with a bronze from the keirin, her sixth Olympic medal in all. Whether or not this will be the 32-year-old great’s last hurrah in an Olympic velodrome remains to be seen.”
7.55pm BST
“Don’t know if this is a regular occurrence in Rio but some sort of Monday Madness seems to be in play on the roads. I’ve just passed my second big shunt of the day - the first in a tunnel, this one fouling up traffic for half a mile on the major highway between the Olympic Stadium and Barra. The bus I’m on just had two close shaves, one with a taxi and one with another bus, the pair of them charging alongside each other and refusing to give ground. It was like bullfighting on wheels. Perhaps drivers are getting too much into the competitive spirit of the Olympics?”
7.54pm BST
She recovers well, then flicks to backward somersault, then another, then the dismount with a step back. But that might be the end of the bid for five golds - though a good routine will be required from someone else.
7.53pm BST
Her squat-spin is great, then a front somersault with half-turn. Silly. Flick into layout, then another - and she falls! She just manages to hang onto the beam, but that will be a deduction!
7.52pm BST
And here comes Simone!
7.52pm BST
13.400 for Onyshko.
7.52pm BST
The beam in ten centimetres wide, by the way, just wider than a phone. Just think about that for a second.
7.51pm BST
Isabela Onyshko unfortunately falls off the beam, one split in particular absolutely ridiculous. We’ve not been shown what she got, but Simone Biles is marking out her landings - her dismount is too complex to see the floor clearly.
7.49pm BST
“Some interesting stats from the US today. Sports broadcasters are often criticised for ignoring female athletes but so far this Olympics, NBC has devoted 58.5% of its coverage to events involving women. That doesn’t quite make up for the inequality in nearly every other sports broadcast but it’s perhaps exposes the old argument that people won’t tune in to watch women’s sport. There are a few reasons NBC has decided to go down this road - women’s gymnastics is always a huge draw, particularly this year with the brilliant Simone Biles, while American women have excelled in the pool. Then there’s the viewers themselves: NBC says 55% of its audience for the Olympics is female.”
7.49pm BST
So Fan Yilin starts, and looks nervous - she’s a bit shaky on some of her landings, but does some very nice gear at the same time. Her landing isn’t perfect - she takes a step to the side - and gets 14.500.
7.46pm BST
Here are our competitors:
Fan Yilin - China
7.44pm BST
“Prepare to hold your breath and be amazed,” says the announcer.
7.43pm BST
Right, beam time.
7.36pm BST
While-u-wait: here’s what to look for in Simone Biles’s beam routine. It’s actually far form her best routine, and Laurie Hernandez will give her a serious fight for the gold.
7.35pm BST
In the now-blue water - whatever will we talk about now? - the men’s 3m springboard prelim is underway. Freddie Woodward of Team GB is 6th, and Mike Hixon of Team USA is joint-10th. Chao He of Chia leads.
7.32pm BST
So, coming up, we have the final of the women’s beam - that’s in precisely ten minutes. And around the time it finishes, we’ve got the flying lap of the men’s omnium.
7.29pm BST
In the men’s team table-tennis, Germany lead Japan 1-0.
7.27pm BST
In the men’s basketball, Brazil lead Nigeria 58-52; France’s men lead Denmark 17-16 in the handball.
7.25pm BST
If you’ve ever ridden a bike, you’ll know that saddle soreness is a nause. Here’s how Team GB have addressed things.
7.23pm BST
REALLY heavy cable camera hurts 2 women in Olympic Park. #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/N7FK2CBUAZ
7.22pm BST
Denis Ablyazin of Russia takes silver, and Kenzo Shirai of Japan the bronze.
7.20pm BST
15.516 is his average, which means...
7.20pm BST
A two-and-a-half twist, following a handspring - 6.2 difficulty, but a big step on landing. Enough for a medal, not enough for gold, say the experts...
7.19pm BST
A sideways flip onto the vault, then some somersaults - but with quite a big step forward and low chest. He gets 15.600, so not at all bad. Can he snaffle gold with his second effort?
7.17pm BST
Just outside the medals, reckon the chaps - his arms don’t get out with sufficient authority to ease the landing; 15.316 is his average, putting him equal fourth. One man still to go, and it’s Denis Ablyazin, the second highest qualifier...
7.15pm BST
Verniaiev gets 15.4 for his first vault, then produces a triple twist. He hops to the side on landing, but it’s not bad at all.
7.14pm BST
Next up is Oleg Verniaiev, silver medalists in the all-around - he’s slight to be a vaulter, apparently, but nails a double-front with half-turn. “Almost perfect,” says Dan Keatings.
7.13pm BST
And in comes Gonzalez for the final vault of his career, handspring onto the vault, some twists, and a not especially great landing. He finishes with an average of 15.137.
7.12pm BST
Tomas Gonzalez of Chile is up next, and he supplies some backwards somersaults for 15.375, and the commentators extol the ridiculous quality of these nutters.
7.10pm BST
Here comes another vault of 6.4 standard, and oh really! This is nifty, and might just get him first place - a double twist into back somersault, and he somehow spots the landing. That could well be first - and it is! 15.776, to give an average of 15.691.
7.08pm BST
A double somersault but with pike, into a twist, and the landing isn’t bad - a step back. He gets 15.616.
7.07pm BST
15.449 overall, that’s good enough for second place. Ri Se Gwan up next...
7.07pm BST
And this is very, very good - a 6.2 difficulty, really they should all start at infinity. He does a handspring onto the board, then three twists, and that could be the lead...
7.05pm BST
On comes Marian Dragolescu of Romania for a double somersault and twist - it’s worth 15.266, the second highest score for an individual vault.
7.03pm BST
15.066 for Shirai, an average of 15.449! He goes into the lead.
7.02pm BST
He backs it up with a two-and-a-half twist, relatively low difficulty, but it’s “clean”, as
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they say.
7.02pm BST
Kenzo Shirai tries something expansive - a handspring into a cartwheel into a three-and-a-half twist - and he lands it! The Shirai! Amazing, and he likes it! 15.833, pretty, pretty good.
7.00pm BST
Radivilov gets an average of 15.133.
6.59pm BST
Oooh, this isn’t perfect - he does two straight somersaults and takes a big step back, but, on the other hand, he has also made history.
6.58pm BST
He gets 14.933.
6.58pm BST
Looks like it was feet, so he won’t get a zero .. my days, the height he got off the vault.
6.57pm BST
Here comes Radivilov, the difficulty 7 - a handspring with three front somersaults. There is excitement - the extra turn is due to to the height he gets, and apparently he’s been landing them ... but he lands on his bum ... I think ... but did he get his feet down first?
6.56pm BST
Competitors usually take their strongest vault, so this one will have to be good ... and it is, a triple twist. 15.4, to give an average of 15.316.
6.54pm BST
Nikita Nagornyy must just have usurped Kumar Sangakkara as owner of sport’s best double letter. He does a double somersault into a twist, and takes quite a big step forward on landing - he gets 15.233.
6.53pm BST
Ihor Radivilov is going for a triple front, which has never been seen before - he’s up second.
6.52pm BST
Right, we’re just shy of the men’s vault final, which will be spectacular. Our line-up is as follows:
Nikita Nagornyy - Russia
6.29pm BST
Denis Ablyazin of Russia gets bronze.
6.27pm BST
Bronze, reckon the commentary box...
6.27pm BST
And then whoops as he nails his crucifix - you can hear his coach shouting, he absolutely smokes his landing, and he thinks he’s got it!
6.26pm BST
And here comes Arthur Zanetti! The arena goes mad, and then falls silent. You can hear the silence.
6.25pm BST
UK chaps: watch Charlotte Dujardin’s gold medal-winning routine, here and now.
6.25pm BST
Radivilov scores 15.466, so he lies fourth. The commentary box thought it better than that, but concede their view is not as good.
6.24pm BST
Next to make us layfolk feel crushing inferiority is Igor Radivilov of Ukraine, a late entrant after a withdrawal. And he’s making the most of it, doing a decent job of the basics and then taking a double twist dismount off the absolute set. Well played, sir.
6.21pm BST
Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues goes next, and he flats through a lovely routine including his own move, a kind of forward press now known as the Rodrigues. You have to submit it to the officials, and provided they like it, they let you perform it and name it after you. He scores 15.233, which puts him in fifth spot.
6.19pm BST
15.600 for Liu Yang, and he’s in third, as predicted.
6.18pm BST
Liu Yang was doing superbly well, but took to long over it all, tiring by the end and stalling in the final two element before dismount. That will cost him a medal, you’d think.
6.15pm BST
“A valiant effort from Team USA and their women’s field hockey team was sadly not enough for a spot in the semi-finals. After trailing 2-0 for most of the match, the Americans got one back thanks to a smart free-kick in the last period. What followed was relentless pressure but a tough German defensive unit managed to hold on. They will now face the winner of Argentina and the Netherlands.
Despite the loss, Team USA can be extremely proud of their Rio performances as they defeated some tough opponents on their way to the quarter finals, including Argentina and Australia.”
6.15pm BST
Ablyazin is especially superb when said in a Geordie accent, and he’s delighted with 15.700 - it puts him into second place.
6.14pm BST
The magnificently-named Denis Ablyazin goes next, and takes a step back on dismount - that does not incur as severe a deduction as a step forwards, as it does not evidence a lack of power.
6.12pm BST
Dennis Gossens of Belgium scores 14.933.
6.12pm BST
Oooh, nice: a profile of Max Whitlock, which you can read here.
6.10pm BST
Germany have beaten USA 2-1 in the women’s hockey quarter.
6.10pm BST
And that’s more like it! 6.8 for difficulty, 9.2 for execution, a total of 16.000. That’l be hard to beat, our commentators assure me, and is the highest score so far on that apparatus.
6.08pm BST
Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece produces what looks like a better routine - he’s the world champ, and nailed his basics.
6.07pm BST
You Hao scores 7 for difficulty and 8.4 for execution, a total of 15.400. Not bad, not brilliant.
6.06pm BST
“Cycling home and was overtaken on MK redway by a youth on a moped,” tweets Steve Pye. “Naturally tutted before pretending I was in the Keirin.”
Similarly, I held a perfect crucifix position for two seconds on the bar above my Tube carriage door.
6.04pm BST
So here’s You Hao of China, who, it turns out, is incredibly strong. He’s holding the strength elements for the necessary two seconds, but his arms weren’t quite straight in the handstand; waster. His dismount was nice, but he didn’t quite nail the landing.
6.02pm BST
Anyway, the rings await - and a ridiculous amount of noise, when Arthur Zanetti, Brazil’s defending champion, shakes his thang.
6.01pm BST
In the 49er FX race for women - the seventh - Sarah Steyaert and Aude Compan of France lead, followed by Charlotte Dobson and Sophie Ainsworth of GB with Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze of Brazil in third.
5.59pm BST
USA have puled a goal back in yon hockey. Game on...
5.58pm BST
Wondering why Team GB have been so successful? Owen Gibson explains.
5.56pm BST
“Women’s field hockey: USA holding on as they are heavily relying on Briggs to make some outstanding saves in goal. They need something to happen offensively, however, as they still trail 2-0 halfway through the fourth period.”
5.55pm BST
Looking ahead, our next big event is the men’s rings final - that starts in a mere seven minutes, and the line-up is as follows:
You Hao - China
5.52pm BST
In women’s hockey, Germany lead USA 2-0 in their quarter-final, with just seven minutes to go.
5.49pm BST
“Looking at the photo of Charlotte Dujardin competing, it seems as though the only people watching the competition are the judges and those operating the cameras,” emails Rhys Hale. “Unless there’s a huge stand behind full of people behind the photographer of course...”
There were people there, but it wasn’t rammed. On which point, the IOC should be insisting the organising committee arrange for unsold tickets to be distributed at Rio schools.
5.48pm BST
BBC are showing us the dressage medal ceremony; whatever happened to dissolving the winner’s performance into the flag or their face, while the anthem plays? A sad loss.
5.45pm BST
And for UK-types only: Justin Rose and Mo Farah reflect; and Sophie Hitchon discusses her hammer bronze.
5.44pm BST
To begin with, here are five Team GB winners that you may have missed.
5.42pm BST
Evening, afternoon and morning all - rev me up, rev me up, my little buttercup. Any thoughts, suggestions or classic lyrics, send them to daniel.harris.casual@theguardian.com or @DanielHarris.
5.36pm BST
Werth has won eight Olympic medals with that silver, which is stunning in itself, but the headlines go to Dujardin. Speaking to BBC she says: “It means the absolute world to me. I felt a huge amount of pressure and expectation. It could be the last ride on Valegro, there’s talk of retirement for him … I’m just so, so happy. [Valegro] has been unbeatable … I could be greedy, he still loves his job, but I want people to remember him at the top.”
And on that exciting note, it’s time for me to pass the baton to Daniel Harris, who will take you through the next five and a bit hours.
5.31pm BST
Charlotte Dujardin has won gold in the individual dressage competition at the Rio Olympics, repeating her triumph at the London Games in 2012 and going one better than the silver medal earned in the team event.
Dujardin scored 93.857% overall to force Germany’s Isabell Werth into silver medal position and earn Great Britain’s 16th gold medal in Brazil. Another German rider, Kristina Broring-Sprehe, took the bronze medal.
Related: Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin wins gold medal in Olympic individual dressage
5.29pm BST
Werth’s effort is good but just not good enough. She scores 89.071% which is only good enough for silver and it’s gold for Great Britain’s Dujardin on the 14-year-old Valegro.
5.22pm BST
USA’s Laura Graves is the penultimate competitor in the dressage aboard Verdades. Her score – 85.196% – is enough for third. But the crowd are airing their grievances yet again. Now it’s time for Isabell Werth on Weihegold Old – can she knock Dujardin off gold? It would take something exceptional.
5.11pm BST
My earlier semi-joke about the struggle to find new and interesting ways to describe people cycling in anti-clockwise circles after five consecutive days in the velodrome has prompted a flurry of indignation below the line. Apparently it means I hate cycling and don’t want to be in Rio. I can assure those determined to misinterpret (wilfully or otherwise) everything they read in an effort to get upset that nothing could be further from the truth. Anyway, here is a schedule of the evening’s fun, which begins at 4pm local time (8pm BST). Apologies in advance for any upset or fury it prompts.
5.10pm BST
Severo Jesus Jurado Lopez has a routine that combines classical music with Jon Bon Jovi but he can only score 83.553%. It’s met by boos from the crowd but the Spaniard looks happy. That puts him into third with two competitors to go. Djudardin’s mark has been retrospectively changed to 93.857%.
Boos around the arena as Lopez Jurado scores low despite crowd-pleasing twiddles. Huge credit to the judges. No one's a fan of that
5.03pm BST
Germany’s Dorothee Schneider can only move into third with her routine on Showtime. It knocks Carl Hester down to fourth but Dujardin and Valegro remains in gold position place with three more to go.
4.58pm BST
Bad news for Team USA in the women’s hockey. Germany lead 2-0 thanks to goals from Marie Mavers and Lisa Altenburg.
4.50pm BST
Charlotte Dujardin, in tears at the end of her routine with Valegro, has scored 93.928%. What a result. Will that be enough for gold? There are still four more to go …
4.46pm BST
Dujardin midway through. Nailing this. But it's tight. Needs an immaculate finish.
4.41pm BST
We have a new leader in the dressage: Germany’s Kristina Broring-Sprehe has scored 87.142, putting here five points clear of Carl Hester in second. Dujardin is next up, the 14th of 18 to compete.
4.38pm BST
USA’s women’s hockey team have taken to the field against Germany in their quarter-final. Five minutes in, it remains scoreless.
4.30pm BST
There’s no rest for Usain Bolt. He is immediately thinking about the 200m – not just winning it, but also setting a new WR. “This is one of the biggest things,” he said this morning. “I really want [the] 200m world record. If I can get a good rest after the semi-finals, there’s a possibility I could. When it comes to the 200m I’m much more confident. The 100m is always the hardest one for me.”
4.24pm BST
Emotional scenes as Britain’s Muhammad Ali is knocked out of the boxing. The 20-year-old is in tears and says he feels he has let people down after losing to Yoel Segundo Finol on points in the flyweight prelims. It’s been an emotional day in the ring so far, following Taylor’s heartbreaking reaction to her defeat in the women’s lightweight earlier.
Don’t get too down, British readers. Here are some reasons behind the country’s success from Owen Gibson, including the National Lottery and team spirit.
4.19pm BST
With six to go in the dressage, including Laura Graves of the US and Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester still leads but Sweden’s Tinne Wilhelmsson has climbed to second thanks to a score of 81.535 on Don Auriello.
4.03pm BST
It’s day five in the velodrome. Day five of trying to dream up new and imaginative ways to describe people in lycra riding around in anti-clockwise circles. I won’t lie, it’s a struggle. Even if they just rode around in clockwise circles for the day it would be a talking point, a radical departure ... something new to get one’s teeth into.
Anyway, enough fatigue-induced gibberish: after a fairly brief morning session, here’s the skinny: Becky James and Katy Marchant are both through to the semi-finals of the women’s sprint, having successfully negotiated their way through the last eight. Meanwhile in the men’s omnium, Mark Cavendish finished sixth overall in the one kilometre time trial and remains in the bronze medal position. It’s tight as a drum up there after four of the six events. Italy’s Elia Viviani leads with 140 points, followed by the Frenchman Thomas Boudet and Mark Cavendish on 126 each. Behind them, the defending champion Lasse Hansen from Denmark and world champion Fernando Rendon Gaviria are locked together on 118 points. That event will conclude this evening, so fingers crossed for a Cav podium finish because I’m so mentally worn down after 11 straight days of Olympics that if he snaps at me in the mixed zone I think I’ll just burst into tears.
The women’s omnium began this morning and defending champion Laura Trott got off to a great start, finishing second in the 10km scratch race. The queen of the elimination race, try to watch her at 6.17pm local time (10.17pm BST). If you’re not familiar with the elimination, you’re in for a real treat. It’s bonkers.
3.58pm BST
The full story on the dramatic open water swimming race, where Muller is disqualified after finishing second.
Related: Olympic swimming marathon gold for Dutch but silver medallist disqualified
3.51pm BST
Some movement in the dressage, too, where Carl Hester, aboard Nip Tuck, leads with a score of 82.482. The Netherlands’ Hans Peter Minderhoud sits second on 80.571, while USA’s Steffen Peters has been bumped down to third. They are about halfway through the field.
3.50pm BST
In the final round, Sophie Hitchon has thrown a new PB of 74.54 – it’s actually a British record – and moves her into the bronze medal position. She is overjoyed, pumping her first and heading straight to her delighted coach to celebrate. Lovely scenes.
3.42pm BST
Hammer update: Wlodarczyk’s latest throw isn’t good enough to break her new WR but would have broken her previous one.
3.40pm BST
We’ve just missed out on another world record here at the Olympic Stadium – Ruth Jebet finishing only 0.94 seconds outside Gulnara Galkina’s Beijing Olympics time in the women’s steeplechase after a brilliant race, leading from front. A tired stutter on the final hurdle cost her the record - but strangely, she seemed entirely unaware of her time, never looking at the clock on the final straight. Is she going to regret that? Probably not. She’s an Olympic champion.
3.36pm BST
Having touched the board before Bruni to win silver, the French competitor has been disqualified on review because she was judged to have obstructed the Italian. That moves Bruni to silver and Poliana Okimoto is upgraded to bronze, delighted the Brazilians that had gathered at Fort Copacabana.
3.31pm BST
Having picked up a gold, a silver and two bronze at London 2012, Rio has been a very different story for Ireland’s boxers. First middleweight Michael O’Reilly was sent home after failing a drug test, then medal contender Paddy Barnes had a shock defeat in the first round of the light-fly category. Now Katie Taylor, invincible at lightweight four years ago and considered Ireland’s best hope of gold, has gone out at the quarter-final stage to Finland’s Mira Potkonen. This succession of failures will doubtless be blamed on the loss of head coach Billy Walsh to the US team last autumn, which caused a huge furore. Walsh said he had not wanted to leave but was left hugely unimpressed by the efforts of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association to retain him.
3.26pm BST
Anita Wlodarczyk, the Polish legend of women’s hammer, isn’t doing badly here. She punched the air after her first effort, a strong 76.35. On her second, she was leaping up and down in joy before the hammer had even reached the apex of its flight - it came down past the 80m line and set a new Olympic record. How do you better that? You set a new world record – 82.29m – with your next throw, then go off for a little celebratory run. Apparently she ate nine boiled eggs for breakfast. I might try that instead of the nutella pancake tomorrow.
3.25pm BST
A white hot atmosphere at the Deodora Olympic park for the final morning of the dressage, the air thick with tension, anxiety, dinner jazz. Fiona bigwood has already gone for Team GB. She’s in fifth currently. The American Stefan Peter on Legolas 92 is an early leader. Although this is in effect the phoney war before the big guns arrive, with Charlotte Dujardin, very much the Bolt of her sport, still to come. The German Charlotte Werth, Dujardin’s main gold threat, rides last. A sensational finish is on the cards here. And remember this is freestyle, the most expressive and unbound of all the dressage forms. Freestyle may have troubled the purists at first but it really has rebooted the sport since it first appeared in Atlanta. Anything can happen in this game. Forget what you know. We’re though the looking glass, horse and rider free to move with the spirit, to explore the imagination. You may remember the film Point Break where Patrick Swayze’s band of thrill-seeking surfers travel the world robbing banks and searching, beneath it all, for the ultimate wave, the ultimate thrill. That’s freestyle dressage: the ultimate ride.
3.19pm BST
Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk has thrown it 82.29m. Wow.
3.18pm BST
A major shock in the boxing ring as Katie Taylor compounds a horrible campaign for Ireland’s highly-rated team by losing on a countback to Finland’s Mira Potkonen.
3.13pm BST
Marcus Evans and Chris Langridge have defeated the fancied Japanese duo Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakaw 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) to reach the men’s badminton semi-finals. They will face China’s Nan Zhang and Haifeng Fu. Their compatriots Biao Chai and Wei Hong have also reached the last four. The final quarter-final sees South Korea take on Malaysia – they are midway through the opening game.
3.01pm BST
Van Rouwendaal wins gold. Muller comes back for second in a battle to touch the finishing board with Bruni, the French swimmer getting in less than a second before the Italian – which is mighty close in a race of almost two hours.
2.59pm BST
Van Rouwendaal is pulling clear with about 150m to go in the open water swimming. It is looking like gold for the Netherlands.
2.54pm BST
After four of the six events in the omnium, the leaderboard: 1 Elia Viviani (It) 140; 2= T Boudat (Fr), M Cavendish (GB) 126.
2.50pm BST
Anti-government protesters carrying placards twice attempted to disrupt the women’s marathon, but were foiled by police, according to Globo. Gold medal winner Jemima Sumgong saw them approach but said she was reassured that security guards held them back. Such incidents bring back memories of the 2004 Olympic marathon which Brazilian runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima was leading until he was grabbed by an Irish priest. He ended up with bronze. More peaceful demonstrations were apparent at several other points along the route where people carried banners reading “Fora Temer” (Interim president Michel Temer out!)
2.47pm BST
Mark Cavendish has been through the omnium time trial and sets the fourth fastest time. Nobody looks like catching Kennett, though.
2.46pm BST
Allison Brock has scored 76.1604 and GB’s Fiona Bigwood 76.018 in the dressage. Neither of those scores will threaten the medals.
2.41pm BST
The time trial in the men’s omnium is underway too. New Zealand’s Dylan Kennett is only 0.2sec off Chris Hoy’s world record. Very impressive and that will bump him nicely up the table and into medal contention.
2.38pm BST
Through the third split in the swimming marathon, Van Rouwendaal has taken a four second lead over Rachele Bruni, Brazil’s Poliana Okimoto is in third. It’s all much of a muchness, though. Thirty seconds separates first from 20th. They have about 25mins to go.
2.24pm BST
The dressage has started. Steffen Peters is the early leader, setting an early benchmark of 79.393. Anna Kasprzak is second.
2.23pm BST
Some drama in the final heat of the women’s 200m – Veroncia Campbell-Brown, perhaps the most experienced runner in the field, has crossed over her lane after coming round the bend, moving from shadow in to sun. Her time was too slow for qualification anyway. “I really don’t know what happened. It’s funny, you know, I don’t understand it,” Campbell-Brown says before the BBC interviewer breaks the news to her that she is not going to progress. “Excuse me?” comes the response. That’s harsh – she misses out by 0.1. Edidiong Odiong won the heat in 22.74, Semoy Hackett is second.
2.19pm BST
In the open water swimming, through halfway France’s Aurelie Müller leads Sharon Van Rouwendaal of Netherlands and Hungary’s Eva Risztov by two seconds.
2.14pm BST
Tori Bowie, in the outside lane, drives to win heat eight. Murielle Ahoure runs her SB for second. The rest are quite some way behind.
2.09pm BST
The seventh heat is a lot tighter. Ivet Lalova-Collio of Bulgaria wins in 22.61, Ella Nelson of Australia is second in 22.66. Britain’s Jodie Williams runs 22.69 for third and that should be enough for a fastest loser spot.
2.06pm BST
Heat six of the women’s 200m is won by Deajah Stevens of Team USA and Nercely Soto runs a SB of 22.89 for second.
1.55pm BST
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare takes heat five, followed in by Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith, who has put her eggs in one basket by focusing solely on this event.
1.51pm BST
There have not been any surprises in the 200m so far, though Elaine Thompson, the 100m champion, was only second in heat four. The Jamaican hasn’t exerted herself but it’s still a quick time. Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou, fourth in the 100m, crosses the line first.
1.45pm BST
Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye has won the third heat of the 200m, Simone Facey of Jamaica follows up in second.
1.40pm BST
USA’s Will Claye gets going in the triple jump qualification with a baseball cap on backwards. He leads with 16.43 for a few seconds until China’s Bin Dong jumps 17.10m.
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USA’s Jenna Prandini finishes well ahead of the pack in the second heat, with Germany’s Lisa Mayer in second.
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“I feel better than before. I’m happy with this one, it’s a good start,” a happy Schippers says on BBC. “I tried to sleep early, I slept good and that’s important to have a good rest. I feel good. After the 100m, I came here for a medal. My body is very good, I know I can run the 200m very good.” Nataliya Pohrebnyak of Ukraine has qualified automatically in second.
1.33pm BST
Schippers is through with any issue, easing up before the finish and looking either side. 22.51sec is a pretty good time and there is plenty more to come from the former heptathlete.
1.31pm BST
The first round of the women’s 200m is getting underway. There will be nine heats, with Dafne Schippers the one to watch in the opener. She struggled in the 100m final but this is her stronger event.
1.25pm BST
Off to dressage for the big one, The Freestyle. The day dressage takes the red pill. Forget what you know. We're through the looking glass
1.08pm BST
What’s the story behind Great Britain’s success? Money has played a huge role. On average, each medal at the Rio Olympics has cost £5.5m – and while some sports have received significant fund, others have had their completely cut.
“Brutal but effective,” writes Josh Halliday.
Related: 'Brutal but effective': why Team GB is winning so many Olympic medals
1.06pm BST
They are off in the women’s 10km open water swim – and it looks choppy to say the least. Suffice to say, it is not an event for the faint-hearted.
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The IAAF have commented on Russia’s Darya Kilshina being cleared to compete in the long jump. “We instigated a review process following new evidence presented to us. The outcome we reached to revoke Darya Klishina’s exceptional eligibility was not upheld by CAS despite the information received from McLaren and she is therefore eligible to compete in Rio.”
Related: Russia's sole athlete Darya Klishina cleared to compete after appeal
1.00pm BST
Never mind the green water at the diving pool. If there is one Olympic event which requires a strong stomach it is the women’s open water swimming, just setting off now in the sea off Copacabana Beach. Let’s just say the water quality tests over the past year have not been entirely positive – one study a year ago reckoned the incidence of viruses from sewage in Rio’s waters was up to 1.7m times higher than would be considered a concern in the United States or Europe. Dr Valerie Harwood, chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida, said her advice to visitors was “Don’t put your head under water.” Not much chance of that when you have to swim 10km for your country on a Monday morning. With the original starting pontoon having been washed away, a serious test of character looms.
12.42pm BST
IPC suspended Brazilian discus thrower Luciano Dos Santos Pereira for 4 years for an anti doping violation. Will miss #Rio2016 #Paralympics
Breaking: #CHN swimmer Chen Xinyi, 4th placed in #Rio2016 100m butter, tested positive at Rio Games: China authority pic.twitter.com/ymN2uDkJds
12.33pm BST
There was so much talk about Great Britain climbing to second in the medals table last night, it seems a good time to flag up where they would stand in a table judged per capita.
Boffins at http://www.medalspercapita.com/ have been keeping track and Grenada, with a population of 106,825, lead despite winning only one medal. Australia are ninth, Great Britain 16th, and the real medals table leaders, USA, are way down in 35th.
12.22pm BST
Hello! We are still watching highlights of last night’s action here, but what a brilliant schedule we have in store today. Five medals to be won on the track and in the field! Three medal bouts in the boxing ring! Gymnastics finals! Prizes in sailing, weightlifting and wrestling! But the first medal event of the day, getting underway about 45 minutes from now, comes in the women’s marathon swimming race.
Isn’t calling long distance swimming a marathon slightly odd seeing as it’s not over 42km and has nothing to do with the Greek town?
12.04pm BST
Snazzy interactive No2 of the day … and this one really is a belter.
Related: Simone Biles in motion: what to look out for in her beam routine
11.50am BST
Mark Cavendish is up and about in Rio and has had this to say about his performance in the first three races of the six-pronged omnium.
Could've been better, but not too disappointed to sit in 3rd coming into day2 of the Omnium. #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/YtMzGtQAmh
11.45am BST
After failing to defend his Olympic title Greg Rutherford’s Rio 2016 has gone from bad to worse …
Greg Rutherford has hit out after thieves in Rio stole a mobile phone containing pictures of his young son.
The Team GB long jumper tweeted that the phone, containing pictures of his 10-month-old son Milo, had been taken on Sunday.
11.39am BST
A reminder that the action begins at 12:30pm today with men’s and women’s badminton doubles. Great Britain’s Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis are up at 1pm which also marks the start of the sprint canoeing men’s 1,000m heats and the women’s 10km open water swimming race.
11.33am BST
Oooosh! (For UK eyes only).
11.22am BST
Amusing …
After his gold medal race, windsurfer Dorian van Rijsselberghe climbed on the boat from where our royal family were watching the race and was hugged by the king & queen and the princesses. Comment by NBC sports in the US: "Rijsselberghe gets hugged by his wife".
Big compliment for the queen actually, considering that she's twice Dorian's age...
11.06am BST
More now on the rather sad tale of the US gymnast Gabby Douglas, who, lest we forget, had her name up in lights after team and all-around gold medals at London 2012.
Related: The hounding of Gabby Douglas: an unworthy end for a great American champion
10.48am BST
Related: Gold for Bolt, the women's marathon and Whitlock on the floor: Rio 2016, day nine – in pictures
10.35am BST
And right on cue, here’s some more information on Lewis Clive …
@gerard_meagher This seems to be an interesting blog entry about Clive Lewis, rowing partner of Hugh Edwards https://t.co/p923BvWmAa
10.26am BST
I’ve had an email from Gavin Jamieson with some more info on Hugh “Jumbo” Edwards…
It was my wife’s grandfather, Hugh ‘Jumbo’ Edwards, that won two Olympic gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932. These were in the rowing, for the coxless pairs and the 4s. These two gold medals were won on the same day in an hour, on August 13. I do believe that with Max Whitlock winning his two gold medals in gymnastics yesterday (almost exactly 84 years to the day!) he becomes the first GB athlete to win those consecutive golds on the same day since Hugh Edwards. I’ve not seen it reported on at all – which is not too surprising as the story of Jumbo’s exploits in 1932 are not well known, he is a lot more renowned for his coaching of Oxford in the 1950s and 60s.
Here is a very short biography and his exploits as a Wing Commander in World War II and rowing through a minefield to save his life.
10.16am BST
Here’s a story all about Great Britain being second in the medals table – with the disclaimer for US readers that Great Britain are still actually third in the American version of the medals table …
Related: Team GB second in Rio Olympics medal table after 'sensational' Sunday
10.12am BST
Quite a few in the comments section are asking for a bit more coverage of Wayde van Nierkerk’s world record run in the 400m final. So here you go …
Wayde van Niekerk is a special, special athlete, the first ever to have run under 10 seconds for the 100m, 20 seconds for 200m and 44 for 400m. Now make that last a damn-near sub-43.
In front of a boisterous Rio crowd, Van Niekerk broke the first men’s track and field world record of these Games with a blistering, barely believable 43.03sec from the unlikely position of lane eight, destroying the two previous Olympic champions in the process.
10.03am BST
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9.59am BST
Here’s an excellent bit of trivia re: Brits who have won two gold medals on the same day at the Olympics. Thanks Gavin!
@gerard_meagher Thanks. Edwards was my wife's grandfather & his 2 gold medals were won in 1 hour & almost 84 years to the day Max won his!
9.52am BST
I promised you an Olympic brain teaser, so an Olympic brain teaser you shall get.
Related: Can you solve it? Are you a puzzle Olympian?
9.38am BST
Ooopsy poopsy …
9.25am BST
News now of a second proposal of the Rio 2016 Olympics …
Related: Chinese diver asked to take plunge again as boyfriend proposes on Rio podium
9.12am BST
Time for a look at the medals table where Great Britain are second and have genuine gold medal hopes today in the shape of Keri-Anne Payne in the 10km open water swimming and Charlotte Dujardin in the dressage.
It is important to bear in mind however that Great Britain are above China in this medals table as in the UK it’s done according to how many golds they have won and if that’s level how many silvers etc.
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