Summary

  • Swimming: King beats Efimova to gold

  • Rugby sevens: Australia make history with gold

  • Diving: Bronze for GB's Daley & Goodfellow

  • Shooting - GB's Ed Ling wins shooting bronze

  1. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:27 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Men's 200m butterfly

    Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic gold last night. No medals tonight but he can set a marker down for number 20 here. Looks super focused.

    Having none of Chad le Clos's small talk. AWAY! 

  2. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:24 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Men's 200m butterfly

    Michael Phelps looks cool as you like backstage, Chad le Clos is staring him out. These two are big rivals...

  3. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:23 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Men's 200m butterfly

    Laszlo Cseh wins his semi in 1:55.18, with Japanese duo Daiya Seto and Masato Sakai rounding out the top three. 

  4. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:21 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Men's 200m butterfly

    Laszlo Cseh leading from the front here...

  5. Postpublished at 03:19 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

  6. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:19 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Men's 200m butterfly

    Brazilian Kaio Marcio gets a Titanic reception as he lines up in the blocks. Hungarian Laszlo Cseh is the man most likely to threaten the Phelps/Le Clos duo in the second semi. 

  7. swimming

    Hosszú wins 100m backstrokepublished at 03:15 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Hungary's Katinka Hosszú wins her second gold medal, this time in the women's 100m backstroke, following victory in the 400m individual medley.

  8. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:15 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Phelps v Le Clos

    The men's 200m butterfly final on Tuesday night promises to be one of the swims of these finals. They go head to head in the semi shortly. 

  9. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:14 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Guy narrowly misses out as Sun Yang takes gold

    GB's James Guy has to settle for fourth as  favourite Sun Yang of China takes gold in the men's 200m freestyle.

  10. swimming

    '...because I'm Russian.'published at 03:14 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Women's 100m breaststroke

    Yulia Efimova: "I'm just happy to be here. A week ago I didn't even know if I'd race, because I'm Russian."

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  11. table tennis

    'I felt in the game'published at 03:11 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Paul Drinkhall: "He's a great player, a couple of points here or there could have changed the game.

    "I believe in myself, I want to win, I saved some match points and felt in the game."

  12. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:09 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    No more medals to be won on Rio day three. But Michael Phelps is in the pool next. 

  13. Get involvedpublished at 03:06 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    #bbcrio2016

    Paddy Ham: Yes Lilly King!!!! That's justice right there and the biggest middle finger you can give to Yuri Efimova.

  14. swimming

    Swimmingpublished at 03:05 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Women's 100m breaststroke

    It was rather frosty...

  15. table tennis

    Drinkhall up against itpublished at 03:04 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Team GB's Paul Drinkhall was beaten by Vladimir Samsonov - but what a rally this was!

  16. swimming

    'Propelled by something special'published at 03:04 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Women's 100m breaststroke

    Adrian Moorhouse
    1988 Olympic 100m breaststroke champion on BBC TV

    "Lilly King was not going to lose that. I thought at 80m that Efimova was going to come through. But King dug in. She was propelled by something special. It is her first Olympics - what a future she has ahead of her."

  17. swimming

    Murphy wins gold for USApublished at 03:03 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Men's 100m backstroke

    Team USA's Ryan Murphy wins gold in the men's 100m backstroke final whilst breaking the Olympic record.

  18. Olympic Record - Lilly Kingpublished at 03:03 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Women's 100m breaststroke

    Lilly King clocks 1:04.93, six tenths outside of the world record. 

    Katie Meili of the US takes bronze. 

  19. gold-medal

    Gold Medal - Lilly Kingpublished at 03:02 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Women's 100m breaststroke

    Lilly King takes it! She holds off a strong finish from Yulia Efimova, who takes second.