Luke Reddy
BBC Sport in Rio

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Nipped into the Youth Arena on my way out of the Deodoro venue last night and have marked it as a must visit today. It was noisy in there and just looked slick.

Today the focus is on William Fox-Pitt as he continues his eventing challenge as leader after the dressage discipline. Cross-country day today and that's where the definitive breakaway tends to come for any eventual winner.

And then it's Team GB's rugby sevens women. They are into the semi-finals and close to securing a medal. It's the All Blacks in the last four.

Water polo, handball, fencing? All of it?

I'm finding out South Korean's handball team have got some serious bounce, and am beginning to understand why the goalkeepers wear those trousers. There's a lot of human launching going on.

Make your choice over here.

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...you're waiting for your team's first gold medal and the Wifi fails.

Great Britain sprinter Asha Philip captured this excellent moment on Twitter.  

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The mark of an Olympic athlete, at least at Rio 2016, seems to be a scattering of perfectly round bruises. Swimmers and gymnasts, particularly from Team USA, are among those seen sporting the mysterious dots.

No, not paintballing misadventures or love bites - they are the result of a practice known as "cupping"; an ancient therapy. 

How it's done

The therapist takes a number of glass cups, which look like small fish bowls. Each cup is heated with a naked flame. The cup is then quickly applied to the skin. This creates a vacuum.

In 2004, Gwyneth Paltrow appeared at a film premiere revealing the signs of cupping on her back.

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*books cupping appointment*

What's this? Another one in the drink? The birds-eye view at Lagoa looks like a serene watery dream - flat and still as far as you can see. 

But Kazakhstan's Vladislav Yakolev has just gone over - about 10 strokes in. On commentary they're describing it as the fastest capsizing in Olympic history - I'll leave them to source that one.

Did you see the Serbian team do the same a few days ago though? There was some serious wave action involved in that one... 

Britain's Tom Daley is only 22 but will be starting out at his third Olympics when he begins his Rio 2016 campaign in the men's 10m synchro diving competition, which begins tonight at 20:00 BST.

Daley won an individual bronze at London 2012 but he and new synchro partner Dan Goodfellow took European silver in May of this year.

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The new Olympic champion tells Get Inspired how, as a small child, he would try and climb out of the bath because his fear of the water was so bad.

But it all turned round when he went to his first swimming lesson.

"I started my first swimming lesson and absolutely loved it," he says. "My swimming teacher made it into a fun kind of thing and it was through that I learned to love it."

Check out the video on Get Inspired.  

We would never encourage you to be distracted from work. No, no, no.

But... we would like to see you performing some work Olympics. 

How about sprinting in the car park, table tennis across the desk or weightlifting in the photocopying room? (Bend those knees).

And if you're not at work (you lucky things), why not try it at home?

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Alistair Magowan
BBC Sport in Rio

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Great atmosphere in the stands as the regatta goes truly international today.

Canadians, New Zealanders, Aussies, Poles and Brits; they are all in fine voice. Both the GB women's and men's eight crew were impressive in their heats and were all smiles as they rowed past to show their appreciation of the vocal support. 

Quite raucous for 9am on a Monday morning!  

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James Cracknell
Double Olympic Rowing gold medalist

That was the textbook way to row a heat - lead from the start, dominate through the middle and just watch as the other teams battle it out.

They can choose what to work on for the final rather than think about the repechage. They ticked every box and now it's a case of making those boxes even better.

Solid, solid stuff from Great Britain. They've eased their way through to Saturday's final with a comfortable victory in this one. And were they maybe holding back a little once they saw their place was safe?

Netherlands in second, New Zealand in third, Italy in fourth - they're all in with another shout in the repechage.

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Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova made it through to the final of the 100m breaststroke but was booed by the crowd before her semi-final last night.

The 2012 bronze medallist was banned for 16 months in 2013 after traces of an anabolic steroid were found in her system.

The International Olympic Committee had ruled any Russian athlete sanctioned for doping would be banned from competing at Rio, but the 24-year-old succesfully appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

On BBC TV, two-time Olympic champion Becky Adlington said: “I’m glad the crowd did do that. She shouldn’t be here."

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Each day, our colleagues at BBC Monitoring will bring us some of the stories making the news elsewhere in the world.

Russian Olympic swimmer Vladimir Morozov has told state-owned TASS news agency that he was “not surprised” by the hostile reaction he and his teammates received during the 4x100m men’s relay.

“I was not surprised by the crowd’s boos. I expected such a reaction. It is a great pity that we finished the day without a medal, but it is not the most disappointing defeat in my career," Morozov told TASS., external

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The Olympic wall is over here.

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Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten went to hospital with severe concussion and three small fractures in her lower back after crashing as she led the race. 

Here's the latest on her condition.

James Cracknell
Double Olympic Rowing gold medalist

The GB women's eight responded incredibly well. This is going to give them a huge amount of confidence. 

They kept themselves very cool. At one stage it looked like Canada could have been racing New Zealand but to win the race after being down shows they have the resilience.

It's really neck and neck for a long stretch of this race but Great Britain come from behind to blitz their way home. 

It's the first time in Olympic history they've made it through to the final without having to lean on the repechage. Top stuff - the bar is set. Watch out United States. 

New Zealand in second and Canada in third, down to the repechage.

Next up? The men's eight. 

"It means a lot. We have survived a war. There are still kids who don't know if their parents are alive, there are still kids who don't have enough to eat or notebooks or books to go to school. From this country I become Olympic champion, that's just huge for us. Even if from Kosovo you don't have so much opportunities in life.

Majlinda Kelmendi served up one of the most inspiring stories of Rio 2016 by becoming Kosovo's first Olympic medallist. She beat Odette Giuffrida to win judo gold and explains the significance of her achievement.

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Great Britain's William Fox-Pitt leads after the dressage phase of the eventing competition at Rio 2016, just 10 months after being placed in an induced coma following a fall.

The 47-year-old suffered a head trauma in a cross-country fall last October.

Today's all about the cross country though - and Gemma Tattersall is the first Briton out at 14:23 BST. 

Fox-Pitt goes at 15:39, before Pippa Funnell and Kitty King at 17:05 and 18:21 respectively. 

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Defending Olympic champions and undefeated world champions the USA have just barged their way through to the final in heat one.

Netherlands, Romania and Australia drop into the repechage. 

Where are Great Britain's women headed?

We're about to find out - they're up against Canada and New Zealand.

Watch here.