Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake lobbed out the anchor about five metres before the line and Great Britain stroll into the final with plenty to spare. A winning time of 37.84.

Turkey and the Netherlands are also into the final by right.

A really good leg from Adam Gemili....

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Time to add a continential crown to the world title belt.

Britain are big favourites to take this gold, particularly with France having lost Jimmy Vicaut to injury.

First they have to get through the heats though.

It should be relatively straightforward in a heat where the main threats are the Netherlands and Turkey.

But those baton-change gremlins are never far away.

It is CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake for the Brits.

Punchy.

"Coleman's coming back! Mitchell-Blake trying to hang on! It's going to be tight...it's going to be GOOOOLLLLD!"

Steve Cram's commentary. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake's looney-tunes buzzer-beater celebration. The best single moment of London 2017? I'd say so.

As Mitchell-Blake said in his post-race interview, they "smashed it to pieces".

Michael Johnson
Four-time Olympic gold medallist athlete on BBC TV

I think it has been fantastic. As long as this model is sustainable, the biggest issue will be finding the cities to host these events.

There's a fairly wide range with golf and BMX included, so that could be an issue but I think it is worth trying - even if you do have to have the odd sport in another city like Berlin this year.

It's great for the fans at home, you have a week and a half of watching sport and supporting your athletes.

Richard Upton: I've really enjoyed the Euro Champs and the multi-sport concept where a number of governing bodies have been prepared to showcase their sport at the same time as others. I hope that this Euro Olympics is repeated.

Germany, Switzerland and Italy make it through automatically from the second heat, but the hosts' winning time was two-tenths off that set by Great Britain in the first heat.

Poland and Spain grab the two fastest loser spots. A national record for Ireland is not quite good enough to get into the shake-down tonight,

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The landslide favourite is Anita Wlodarczyk.

The Pole has the top 15 throws of all time to her name and has won the last two Olympic titles as well as world titles at Beijing 2015 and London 2017.

Even Alan Sugar's henchmen could not pick holes in that CV.

The lady herself has a few self-doubts.

“It is very hard for me to predict the results in the final because my season is full of ups and downs. I had some very weak throws this season," she said.

It is all relative though. She has won seven of the nine events she has entered this season and was more than a metre better than anyone else in qualifying.

Britain's Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sophie Hitcheon has it all to do. She was 11th best of the 12 qualifiers.

Not a problem at all for the Great Britain quartet.

Daryll Neita brings it home well clear of the Netherlands and France in a time of 42.19.

Great Britain booking one of the prime location lanes for tonight's final at 20:20.

When presumably Dina Asher-Smith will be in to bolster their line-up still further.

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You don't just walk into the fun-and-games relays final for free. You have to break into a little trot at least.

Two heats, the first three from each, plus the two fastest teams outside of those slots.

Great Britain's quartet - Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Bianca Williams and Daryll Neita - go in the first with the Netherlands, Spain and France also involved.

Philip, Neita, Desiree Henry and Dina Asher-Smith won silver at London 2017 behind the United States.

There was drama in the women's marathon this morning as pre-race favourite, Volha Mazuronak of Belarus, suffered a nosebleed while in the leading group.

Thanks to their lorryload of gold, the Russians are going to pick up the big pot in Glasgow.

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They dish out the medals a little differently in Berlin.

Instead of a rushed podium assembly and chucking out the neckwear while half the stadium is heading for the exits to get a jump on the traffic, the organisers save the ceremony for later and the city centre.

Dina Asher-Smith's dazzling smile light up the day in the German capital.

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Never mind the European Championships, Renaud Lavillenie was not shy about letting the Anniversary Games crowd about France's success at the World Cup last month, competing in a France shirt after Les Bleus beat Croatia in the final in Russia.

The 31-year-old is a three-time European champion, an Olympic gold-winner at London 2012 and the class of the field in terms of personal and 2018 bests.

Sweden’s 18-year-old Armand Duplantis has the fourth-best jump in the world to his name this year – clearing 5.93m – while 21-year-old Timur Morgunov - a authorised neutral Russian - is a centimetre further back.

Britain’s Adam Hague is 12th to jump having jumped a personal best of 5.61m to qualify.

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These are the highlights of tonight's action from the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. All times British Summer.

18:20: Women's 4x100m relay heats

18:40: Men's 4x100m relay heats

19:00: Women's 1500m final featuring Laura Muir

20:20: Women's 4x100m relay final

20:35: Men's 4x100m relay final

And there was final-dive heartbreak for Grace Reid and partner Katherine Torrance in the synchronised 3m springboard, as the pair dropped from first to fourth in the final round after Torrance's costly error.

Reid had snatched individual gold with her final dive on Saturday at the pool where she learned to dive and said she was "devastated" for her team-mate.

'Whitlock down and out'published at 18:05 British Summer Time 12 August 2018

18:05 BST 12 August 2018

But it wasn't to be for Olympic champion Max Whitlock, who missed out on the pommel horse medals as Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan took gold.

Whitlock had to settle for seventh place, following a mistake mid-way through his routine.

'Cunningham comes of age'published at 18:04 British Summer Time 12 August 2018

18:04 BST 12 August 2018

Britain's Dominick Cunningham won floor gold with a score of 14.666, beating Israel's Artem Dolgopyat and Russia's Artur Dalaloyan to take the European title in Glasgow...

This is where it is all leading.

One more evening of action and then the inaugural, collective European Champioinships jamboree is done.

Before we look forward though, let's look back.