They are off!

Laviai's identical twin Lina was filming the reaction to her semi-final back at their home track Lea Valley.

Both she and coach Christine Bowmaker are in Berlin and, presumably, in the stadium for tonight's action.

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Britain’s Laviai Nielsen could be the superstar from leftfield.

The 22-year-old was a bag carrier for Jessica Ennis-Hill at London 2012, won European Junior gold over 400m in 2015, and is in the form of her life after setting new personal bests in the heats and semi-finals.

She has chopped more than a second of her previous best this year.

Nielsen is the quickest into the final, but the Netherlands Lisanne de Witte and Lithuania's Agne Serksniene have both been significantly quicker this year.

That's cleared that one up.

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There has been a lot of talk about the three-pronged British assault on the men's 100m.

There has been less about the trio of British women competing in the long jump for the first time in 49 years.

In world leader Lorraine Ugen, 2015 World Championships silver medallist Shara Proctor and reigning Amsterdam 2016 silver medallist Jazmin Sawyers are all gold-medal suspects.

They are all ranked in the top five in Europe on 2018 performance and separated from each other by only 19cm.

Big question though, is Ugen ready to compete?

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Dina Asher-Smith sliced up the rest of the 100m field like a sushi chef with a samurai sword on Tuesday night.

The Briton is now locked onto the second half of her European sprint double.

She will attempt to defend her 200m title tonight, but world champion Dafne Schippers is one of those determined to derail the Asher-Smith hype train.

They descend to their blocks at 19:45 BST. You really don't want to miss it.

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"Today, queen of Europe. Next year and in 2020, the world?" - The Guardian, external

"That she will become the darling of British athletics seems inevitable– she is the natural heir to Jessica Ennis-Hill’s crown." - Daily Telegraph, external

"Whaaat, 10.85, that’s reaaaaally quick” - Zharnel Hughes.

Here are the highlights of the sporting smorgasbord this evening: All times B to the S to the T.

19:05: Long jump final featuring Lorraine Ugen, Shara Proctor and Jazmin Sawyers

19:12: 400m final featuring Laviai Neilsen

19:45: 200m final featuring Dina Asher-Smith

20:30 and 20:50: 4 x 400m relays, first the men, then the women

No doubt about who is the headliner from a British point of view though...

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Open like a 24hr all-you-can-eat buffet.

Belarusian Maksim Nedasekau has the best mark in the field this year with a leap of 2.32. Greek Konstandinos Baniotis and German Mateusz Przybylko are only a centimetre behind.

Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi is the reigning European champion. Ukraine’s Andrii Protsenko is the only man in the field who has jumped 2.40m.

I'm going for Tamberi. Anyone with that much volume in the hair department, probably has similar levels of bounce in his legs.

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Right, let's hop over to Berlin like it is the glory days of budget airlines.

The first event of the evening's athletics programme is about to get under way.

You can't ask much more from Great Britain's divers.

Britannia was ruling the high board once again earlier today as Grace Reid snatched the gold from her team-mate Alicia Blagg with her last dive in the 3m springboard final.

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There is red, white and blue on top of the European Championships medal table. Unfortunately for most of you reading it is the Russian rather than British flag that is flying highest.

You can see the full run-down here - with sport-by-sport details on who has been pulling their weight.

Or otherwise.

Russia take team goldpublished at 18:47 British Summer Time 11 August 2018

18:47 BST 11 August 2018

The Russian quintet saw off a Great Britain outfit containing double Olympic champion Max Whitlock to win team gold by four points.

Over at Tollcross Great Britain's defending champions Matthew Lee and Lois Toulson were pipped by Nikita Shleikher and Iuliia Timoshinina in the synchronised 10m mixed platform, finishing just 1.83 points behind the Russian pair.

The men's and women's 20km race walk events took place earlier today, with Britain's Tom Bosworth recording a seventh-place finish as Bethan Davies finished 22nd in the women's event.

There was a British one-two in the BMX as Kyle Evans won gold ahead of team-mate Kye Whyte in Glasgow.

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Evening all.

There is plenty to look forward to - Dina Asher-Smith's shot at sprinting double top, Lorraine Ugen, Shara Proctor and Jazmin Sawyers' three-pronged attack on the long jump and the thrills and spills of the 4x400m relay - but let's start by looking back.

Watch Great Britain's best routines in the men's team gymnastics final as they claim silver behind winners Russia at the European Championships in Glasgow.

British pair Matthew Lee and Lois Toulson had to settle for silver after narrowly failing to defend their European synchronised 10m mixed platform title.

Despite a 'brilliant' final dive, they lost out to Russian winners Nikita Shleikher and Iuliia Timoshinina by 1.83 points.

Russia have won gold in the men's gymnastics team final with a combined score of 257.260.

Great Britain's team, which includes Max Whitlock, have won silver with a combined score of 253.362.