Summary

  • Women's 200m Freestyle Final

  • Men's 200m Butterfly Final

  • Women's 200m Individual Medley Final

  • Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final

  1. Maggie Alphonsi on Breakfastpublished at 10:02 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    BBC Breakfast

    After Team GB finished fourth in Monday's rugby sevens, former player Maggie Alphonsi has given an insight to how the team may be feeling today... 

    "Fourth is the most painful place to finish. You know how hard you have worked. You can see it, you can touch it, you can feel it. But you come away with nothing. Coming fourth, it's so painful."

  2. rugby sevens

    Love winspublished at 10:02 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    ProposalImage source, BBC Sport

    I think I have something behind my contact lens.

    Last night in the wake of the medal ceremony for Australia's victorious sevens team, Games volunteer Marjorie Enya entered the pitch and asked Brazil player Isadora Cerullo to marry her.

    Not on a whim. The couple live in Sao Paulo, where Cerullo, who has dual US citizenship, moved to focus on making Brazil's squad for the Games.

    "I know rugby people are amazing and they would embrace it," said Enya.

    "The Olympic Games can look like closure but, for me, it's starting a new life with someone. I wanted to show people that love wins."  

  3. Rio security chief targeted by robberspublished at 09:58 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    BBC Monitoring

    The man in charge of security during the Olympics opening ceremony was almost robbed as he returned to his car on the morning after the Games officially opened. Felipe Seixas was approached by four men carrying knives as he walked to his car outside the Maracana stadium. Security officers accompanying Mr Seixas opened fire on the assailants, killing one of them on the spot. More on that here., external

  4. Like mother, like sonpublished at 09:53 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Nino SalukvadzeImage source, Getty Images

    There are plenty of Olympic siblings - Becky and Ellie Downie, Jamie and Andy Murray, etc etc - but history is being made at Rio 2016 as we have our first mother/son competitors at the same Games.

    Competing for Soviet Union, sports shooter Nino Salukvadze made her Olympic debut in 1988. Joining her this year for the first time is her 18-year-old son, Tsotne Machavariani. 

    “It’s a double joy for me, because I will participate in the Olympics for the first time in my life and because I will compete in Rio alongside my mother,” Machavariani told news agency, Reuters.  

    Salukvadze is now competing in her eighth Olympics. She was Georgia's flag bearer at London 2012.

  5. gymnastics

    Gelder on his way back homepublished at 09:49 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Yuri GelderImage source, Getty Images

    Dutch gymnast Yuri Gelder is on a plane back to the Netherlands rather than preparing for the rings final.

    The 33-year-old unwisely decided to celebrate his qualification with a few drinks that were not isotonic or water.

    It is not the first time that Gelder has strayed from the straight and narrow.

    In 2009, he was suspended from his national team for taking cocaine three days before the national championships.

  6. golf

    Happy ending for Grillopublished at 09:48 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Golf

    The race was on for Argentina's Emiliano Grillo to get his clubs back in time for the start of the golf on Thursday.

    American Airlines lost his vital piece of luggage as he made his way to Brazil and Grillo, ranked 39th in the world, took to social media to get them back.

    "American Air seriously, find me a human in JFK, MIA, or Sao Paolo that can physically look for my bag and confirm where it is and send it," he tweeted.

    He feared he would miss his big chance to compete at Rio 2016 but the pair were finally reunited on Tuesday.

  7. Best pictures from day threepublished at 09:41 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    A birds-eye view of basketball...

    BasketballImage source, Rex Features
    Image caption,

    United States forward Carmelo Anthony shoots past Venezuela point guard Heissler Guillent

  8. fencing

    It's for youpublished at 09:38

    FencingImage source, @wwwbrazilcom

    In California, they have a restaurant game where the technology-addicted diners will stack their phones in the middle of the table and the first person to reach for their handset has to pay the whole bill., external

    It looks like they could do with something similar on the Rio fencing piste.

    France's Enzo LeFort was mid-fencing bout yesterday when his phone appeared to slither out of his pocket., external

    It must have been a very important call or text he was waiting for.   

  9. shooting

    Farmer wins Olympic bronzepublished at 09:32 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Shooting

    Britain's Ed Ling swapped his tractor for a place in the men's trap shooting at Rio 2016 and did the business by winning bronze.

    The 33-year-old had struggled at Athens 2004 and London 2012 but beat beat Czech David Kostelecky 13-9 to win GB's third medal of the Olympics.

    "It was third time lucky for me but shooting is a funny sport where sometimes you can go out there and things can go really well and other times you can't hit a barn door," said Ling.

    "It is a great sport and I really love it."

  10. Going for goldpublished at 09:28 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    There's 15 of those yellowy-amber shiny things on offer today:

    • Canoe slalom - men's C1
    • Diving - women's 10m synchro
    • Equestrian - eventing team & individual
    • Fencing - men's epee
    • Gymnastics - women's team
    • Judo - men's -81kg, women's -63kg
    • Shooting - women's 25m pistol 
    • Swimming - men's 200m fly & 4x200m free relay, women's 200m free & 200m medley
    • Weightlifting - men's 69kg, women's 63kg 
  11. Team GB medal trackerpublished at 09:27 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Medal trackerImage source, BBC Sport

    Since the modern Olympic era began in 1896, no host country has increased its medal tally at the next summer Games.

    Can Team GB buck the trend? They won 65 medals in London and have been given a target of 48 in Rio - which, if achieved, would make it their most successful overseas Olympics.

    Follow our daily medal tracker to see how they are performing compared to previous Games.

  12. Medal tablespublished at 09:23

    Catherine Skinner's trap shooting gold is keeping Australia riding high in the medals table. 

    Team GB are bubbling along at the bottom of the top 10.

    Medal table
  13. golf

    Who-o-o, who-o-opublished at 09:17 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Golf

    "We are trying to train the owls to find the ball."

    Burrowing owls have made their homes on the Olympic golf course and  International Golf Federation (IGF) president Peter Dawson reveals how they might be used.

    OwlsImage source, EPA
  14. Around the worldpublished at 09:11 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Brazil's O Globo lead with the hosts' first gold medal courtesy of judoka Rafaela Silva who is from the Cuidade de Deus neighbourhood of Rio that was the setting for Olympic opening ceremony director Fernando Meirelles' breakthrough City of God.

    O GloboImage source, O Globo

    The Australian goes big with news of their country's fourth gold medal of the Games via Catherine Skinner in the trap shooting.

    The AustralianImage source, The Australian

    USA Today have an image of Kevin Durrant dunking two of the United States 113 points in their comprehensive win over Venezuela on their front page along with praise for the outspoken 100m breastroke gold winner Ellie King.

    USA TodayImage source, USA Today
  15. 5 live's daily downloadpublished at 09:07 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Radio 5 live Olympics logoImage source, BBC Sport

    Catch up with all of yesterday's Olympics action by listening to 5 live's daily download.

  16. diving

    'Multiplies by a million'published at 09:04 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Diving

    Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow had a tense wait before finding out they had won the bronze in the men's synchronised 10m platform.

    "Going into the last round there's an intense pressure in any competition, but when it's the Olympics it multiplies by a million," said Daley.

    Goodfellow added: "I was nervous. But when we first started we knew there would be pressure. And we knew we'd be the last divers to go.

    "We just kept our nerve and stayed in the moment."

    Tom Daley (left) and Daniel GoodfellowImage source, Getty Images
    Tom Daley (left) and Daniel GoodfellowImage source, AP
  17. diving

    Daley and Goodfellow deliverpublished at 09:00 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Diving

    Britain's Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow only started training together last October but they won Olympic bronze in the men's synchronised 10m platform at Rio 2016.

    The pair clinched only GB's eighth Olympic diving medal after pipping Germany to third place in a tense finish as China won gold and USA the silver.

    They were the last pair to dive in the open-air Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre, meaning they knew what they needed to do to overhaul Germany's former world champions Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein with their final effort.

    With a score of over 84 points needed, the British duo waited anxiously before leaping into the pool in celebration when the score of 89.64 came up.

  18. News reviewpublished at 08:56 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    The Times splash their front page with photos from the beach volleyball match between Germany and Egypt on their front page. The sport's dress code was relaxed in 2012.

    "How to give birth like Jools Oliver" though. 

    If Jamie can whack out vietnamese pork chops with ramen in 15 minutes, I reckon she can deliver a bouncing new brood member with just an hour of labour.

    The TimesImage source, The Times
  19. shooting

    By royal appointmentpublished at 08:51 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Shooting

  20. athletics

    Usain in the membranepublished at 08:45 British Summer Time 9 August 2016

    Athletics

    Usain Bolt doesn't do ordinary and the six-time Olympic champion's news conference included samba-ing with some Brazilian dancers and being serenaded in rap by a Norwegian journalist. 

    Yes, you are reading right and staying up through the night to watch the Games is not making you hallucinate.

    "I like to entertain, because that's what people come out to see," said Bolt. "I try to entertain and make it different. That's my personality."  

    The Norwegian journalist declined to ask a question - instead proclaiming his love for Bolt before rapping a song in his honour and then blowing him kisses. You can watch the amazing scenes by clicking the the below video.