Nick Hope
BBC Sport in Rio

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New 10m air pistol Olympic champion Ginny Thrasher tells the media assembled at her press conference that she actually wanted to be an Olympic figure skater when she was a child.

Thrasher recalls how she changed her mind after joining her grandfather, father and brothers on a hunting trip where she shot a deer.

Inevitable questions about the USA's controversial gun laws followed, but teen Thrasher - who is studying biomedical engineering an University - was quick to dismiss them.

"I think some of the controversialness of guns in America is just distracting to our sport which is very different," she said.

Steve Cummings has a little poke off the front of the peloton and the rest of Great Britain's men hang back to force the field to follow him themselves.

Cummings showed at the Tour de France in the past two years that he can go from far out and stay out. The peloton duly get their act together and chase up.

The six-strong breakaway's lead is being chewed up now. It is down to under three minutes.

Meanwhile an Iranian rider has got closely acquainted with the Brazilian countryside.

That was an absolute breeze for Denmark. They steered effortlessly towards victory and are through to the semi-finals - joined there by the British crew of Peter Chambers, Jono Clegg, Mark Aldred and Chris Bartley, who took second. 

Greece pushed hard but settled for third and also made it through, with Germany dropping into the repechage with fourth.

Yulia Efimova has been been cleared to compete in Rio after a convoluted drugs case that saw her go through the Court of Abritration for Sport. The world champion will line up in the 100m breastroke heats on Sunday after being "added to the list".

The Czech Republic suddenly decide to start the party in the peloton.

The hammer goes down and the pack is suddenly strung out in their wake.

Great Britain need to do a little roll-call as the peloton set off in pursuit. Steve Cummings is present and correct. But where are the likes of Froome, Stannard and Thomas?

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Australia's Richie Porte is the latest rider to have to re-rig their chain after it bounced off the big ring while he was riding over the cobbles.

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Job done for Great Britain, they wore Brazil down and will take on Japan tonight.

Brazil's fans produced a huge roar in the second period as Joanne Watmore was denied a try by a brilliant tackle on the line - that's the noisiest moment of the Olympics I've seen yet.

Alas though it was to no avail in the end as Natasha Hunt, Wales' Jasmine Joyce and Emily Scott crossed over. Joyce looked elated to have scored at the Olympics. It's finished 29-3.

We are in something of a stand-off in the men's road race.

A six-strong group are four and half minutes up the road, but they went early, hard and are not going to be able to stay away.

The peloton - with all British riders present and correct - are soft-pedalling away waiting for them to boomerang back and the next move to be made from their ranks.

Britain's Galal Yafai opens with a comfortable 3-0 win over Simplice Fotsala of Cameroon in the preliminary stages at the Rio Centre.

The brain is mighthier than the boot yet again as Natasha Hunt's smart bit of thinking exposes a gap in the Brazil defence.

Jasmine Joyce  - the only Wales player in the Great Britain team - zooms away for another.

Suddenly the scoreline looks a whole lot healthier.

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British Commonwealth champion Ashley McKenzie is out of the -60kg category, losing to a single yuko point from Kazakhstan's world champion and world number four Yeldov Smetov.

Plucky stuff, but the world champ had the edge.

Irish boxer Paddy Barnes picks up another impressive snap for his selfie collection.

Chris Rhydderch: Gonna be glued to Rio 2016 the next fortnight!! So far watched rowing, archery, table tennis, cycling and now tennis!

Kyra Balderstone: Home just in time for the rugby sevens in Rio! Perfect afternoon!

Nevermind: There's more sirs in the BBC's coverage of the Olympics than in Game Of Thrones. 

Great Britain earn some much-needed scoreboard breathing space as Natasha Hunt taps, goes and leaves a couple of Brazilians choking on fumes.

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World champion Yeldov Smetov has Britain's Ashley McKenzie down for a yuko - which is one point.

McKenzie has 30 seconds to respond.

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BBC Sport in Rio

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Great Britain have defended well in this opening half against Brazil. In all honesty, despite their lowly ranking the hosts have been on top, pressing GB back and Joanne Watmore's breakaway try broke the enthusiasm briefly. We even saw a British flag get an airing.

Brazil hit back with a drop goal after an infringement and so its 7-3 at the break. Britain will expect more, much more. 

Brazil cut Great Britain's lead to four points, flipping over a penalty with the last piece of first-half action.

Great Britain are making heavy weather of this with Heather Fisher twice knocking on when well placed.