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The riders are on the start line... a penny for this woman's thoughts.

Looks like the canoeing start has been put back from 16:30 BST by an hour. 

Great Britain's Joe Clarke should be the man to know - he's due to compete in the kayak heats from about 18:00 - looks like that's going to be 19:00 now though...

And confirmation from the International Canoe Federation...

Ross Fraser: Every four years fall in love with handball again... extravagant goal attempts and the 1970s trackies for the keepers.

Fancy a bit of Croatia v Qatar? Or Sweden v Germany?

Watch over here.

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New Zealand have seen off France 26-7 in their Pool B match at the Deodoro.

The Kiwis have looked decent, but were pushed closer than they would have liked by a committed France side. 

Germany's Dustin Brown is a set up on homecrowd favourite Tomasz Bellucci in their first-round match.

But Brown has gone down injured. This might be over if it is as bad as it looks...

Great Britain's Pippa Funnell is up into the top 10 with a provisional score of 43.90 taking her to ninth as it stands in the individual dressage.

Her compatriot William Fox-Pitt still leads, having performed brilliantly yesterday on his return after 10 months out after being placed in an induced coma following a fall.

Watch out for Kitty King later - she's due out at about 18:58 BST.

This stage of competition counts as the individual and team qualifiers - with the medals to be decided later in the week.

Great Britain's Richard Kruse is through to the last 16 of the men's individual foil.

He's defeated Hamid Sintes of Algeria 15-4, and takes on Italy's Andrea Cassara at 17:00 BST.

The women's road race is 20 minutes away. World champion Armitstead has staked her season on Olympic gold, but her build-up has been shaken by three missed drugs test, a successful appeal against a ban and some heavy criticism from some observers.

GB's Olympic champion Nicola Adams got a bye for the first round in Rio and won't fight until 15 August but there's no let up for her in training...

Great Britain's women's team got off to a winning start with victories over Brazil and Japan - today they're back in action against Canada at 16:30 BST.

The Canadians beat the same two teams as the Brits did yesterday, so the winners of today's game will top the group and should avoid favourites Australia in the quarter-finals.

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Half-time in the second match of the day in the women's rugby sevens and New Zealand lead France 19-7. 

Some sublime handling skills from the New Zealanders before France's Camille Grassineau scampered in to cut the lead.

Starting them early, Gareth? Keep your tweets coming in to us using #bbcrio2016

Is that Johnny Vegas?published at 15:44 British Summer Time 7 August 2016

15:44 BST 7 August 2016

Gymnastics

A lot of people have been tweeting us asking where Johnny Vegas developed his gymnastic expertise. 

Well those dulcet northern tones don't belong to the St Helens-born comedian and lover of tea bags, but Craig Heap, the Commonwealth gold winning former gymnast from Burnley

Here is a slice of life in Rio to brighten your day wherever you are.

Warning: May contain a banging soundtrack.

Adam Gemili is the men's Team GB athletics captain and has been doing his best to get his team-mates going...

Zhang Mengxue scored 199.4 in 20 shots to set an Olympic record in winning the women's 10m air pistol gold for China.

Russia's Vitalina Batsarashkina (197.1) claimed silver and Greece's Anna Korakaki (177.7) finished with the bronze.

Zhang is world ranked number five and none of her rivals could match her consistency once the Chinese athlete went into the lead.

The 25-year--old achieved her success in her first appearance at the Olympics.

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This is the scene on court one at the tennis where the action is yet to start due to high wind.

On Centre Court however, the stands are high enough to protect play from the breeze and Dustin Brown has taken the first set against Tomasz Bellucci.

Next up on the big stage is American Serena Williams against Daria Gavrilova of Australia before British kingpin Andy Murray takes on Viktor Troicki of Serbia in the third match of the day.