Emma Pooley talks about how she came across cycling after picking up a running injury.

She shares some of the early mistakes she made when starting out such as not choosing the right saddle.

Once she had sorted the comfort issues around riding a bike it didn't take her long before she was addicted and an unusual angle that drew her in. 

"There was a cafe stop. I couldn't believe there's a cafe stop during sporting training," she explains. "There's no cafe stops on a run!" 

She went on to win silver in the time trial at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In 2014 she decided to try her hand at triathlon, but a hilly course in Brazil for the 2016 women's road race has seen Emma tempted back into the cycling fold.

If you think you'd like to have a go at cycling then have a look at Get Inspired's guide. 

Stand back everyone, some genuinely amusing and good-natured banter coming up.

Unsurprisingly, after a strong Euro 2016 showing,, external it is the Irish who have supplied it.

Here's the back and forth, step-by step:

Step One: Irish boxer Paddy Barnes grabs a snap with golfer Rory McIlroy's ex-fiancee and Denmark flag-bearer Caroline Wozniacki. 

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Step Two: Rory McIlroy takes the joke and has a gentle dig as he sets Barnes the challenge of winning gold.

Step Three: Barnes' team-mate Michael Conlan gives a shout out to McIlory's reason for withdrawing from the Games.

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Former Olympic champion rower on BBC TV

Sir Steve Redgrave was the one who really blazed the trail for British rowing – providing that belief that we can win medals.

I think we are capable of winning more here – but unfortunately conditions like we saw yesterday will come into it.

On TV it's exciting when there are mishaps - drama such as how the Serb men’s pair were capsized after catching one of their oars on a wave, flipping straight over.

Yesterday they should have delayed the rowing programme, or started earlier to get going when the water is calmer, because there is a real cross-wind in the middle 1,000m.

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Brazilian Gui Lin had to defuse a bit of Olympic fever in the table tennis yesterday.

A partisan crowd's roars of approval and occasional boos got a little too much in her match against Gailia Dvorak of Spain and Lin had to raise her hand and urge some decorum.

"Table tennis is a sport where you have to be quiet, they have to focus and there are three other tables playing, and I thought it wasn't right to disturb the others because of me," Gui said on her way to a 4-2 win.

Looks like the wind is winning after all over at Lagoa. 

Racing was due to get under way at 12:30 BST but has been delayed by one hour. For now.

"I've never really raced in water like this. This was a new extreme, but it's good experience. In the end I kind of feel like a Viking coming out of it. I'm just like, 'Yeah I did it'."

Women's single sculler Nadia Negm of Egypt needed to summon her inner Viking to survive the high-cross winds and waves on Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas on day one.

"If I could give an educational likeness, it's probably like walking down some stairs and when you're mid-stride the step gets three times the height. You go to take a step and you're taking three steps all at once. Or maybe skiing with a blindfold on."

New Zealand rower Hamish Bond provides his own simile.

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BBC Sport in Rio

There have been a few reports coming in this morning that the wind has got up at the rowing at Lagoa.

It got breezy yesterday with a Serbian crew capsizing at one point, and early last week the lagoon was closed because of high winds.

If there are white caps on the water, the rowing federation Fisa takes that as its cue to suspend racing.

No signs that has happened yet but they have been are limiting training runs to 500m and there is extra time built into the schedule should delays occur.

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It's another busy day of heats for Great Britain's rowers - with events to get going from 12:30 BST.

Look out for: 

• Olympic champions Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, who are unbeaten in 36 races and go again in the women's pair  
• Alex Gregory, Mo Sbihi, Constantine Louloudis and George Nash in the men's four    
• Richard Chambers and Will Fletcher in the men’s lightweight double sculls   
• Katherine Copeland and Charlotte Taylor in the women's lightweight double sculls
• While John Collins and Jonathan Walton get a second bite at the men’s double sculls in the repechage 

"I was walking down the hallway and I saw a sign posted for co-ed wrestling and I thought to myself, 'Spandex and boys, this would be so fun'."

Canada's Erica Wiebe fills us in on how her path to Rio 2016 started. 

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"He (Adrian Carambula) is a bit of a joke in beach volleyball. He started to play for a laugh. He is physically the least suitable for this game but he developed skills that no-one else has. So he also started to serve like this as a joke when he was younger on the beaches of Miami."

Italy's beach volleyball competitor Carambula (left of the picture) might not have the build for beach volleyball but it's nice he's appreciated by team-mate Alex Ranghieri.

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Mack Horton's gold has helped Australia to the top of the early medals table.

Doom-and-gloom column writers start googling the population, GDP and sports spend of Uzbekistan, Indonesia and Thailand.

All of them are currently ahead of Team GB's grand total of zilch medals from one day's action. 

Their cricketers may have lost their edge, but Australia's Olympians have brought sledging to the summer Games.

Mack Horton won the country's first gold of the in the 400m freestyle last night, beating China's defending champion Sun Yang into second.

His win came after a training pool bust-up with Yang which began - according to Horton - with the Chinese trying to splash and taunt him.

Horton responded by saying in an interview that he had no time for dopers and cheats - a reference to Yang's three-month drugs ban in 2014.

"It was something I'd thought of beforehand," Horton told the Sydney Morning Herald. , external

The move was prompted by a conversation with Swimming Australia president John Bertrand, the famous America's Cup-winning skipper who refused to call the previously unbeatable Americans anything but 'the red boat' before infliciting their first loss for 132 years in 1983.  

"I was taking a leaf out of John Bertrand's book, He just referred to the Americans as 'the red boat' so he desensitises from it." added Horton.  

Masters winner Danny Willett is on his way...

Sir Chris Hoy is one of the most successful Olympians from Great Britain - but how did he make it to the top of cycling, and who inspired him?

Inspired to get back on your bike? Take a look at this handy guide from Get Inspired to find ways to get into cycling.  

Here's what it feels like to win a gold medal, courtesy of the new 400m individual champion from Japan, Kosuke Hagino.

Great picture, innit?

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Move over, Adam. We have a new favourite member of the Peaty clan.

Grandma Mavis, or Olympic Nan as she's called herself, is becoming a bit of a star. 

Mavis has been following her grandson's exploits in the pool from her home in Staffordshire but has also been showing her enthusiasm on Twitter - via @Mavise42Mavis., external

She spoke to BBC Radio 5 live this morning: “I watch him at home. I was screaming for him last night but my neighbour didn’t mind.

"He knows I’m proud because I’m always putting it on Twitter. Caroline [Adam Peaty's mum] took me to London 2012 and to Scotland to see him – that was my holiday.

"She had to phone me yesterday because I said: ‘I can’t get this telly on'. I couldn’t get the red button going. Then I thought I know what I can do – my iPad. So I got the BBC up on my iPad and I watched it on there."

"Since I’ve been going to watch Adam, it’s given me a new life, a different life, that I never dreamed of. I’ve loved every minute of it. I can’t wait for tonight."

One word: LEGEND (not just because she name-checks our coverage)

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450,000 condoms have been supplied to the Olympic Village, equivalent to 42, or two per day, for each athlete.

It is a figure that has got a lot of publicity. But the Games are not quite a Club 18-30 holiday on Armageddon's eve.

USA Today, external have done some, ahem, probing and found out that the contraceptives are dispensed from green hoppers in public areas such as the food hall and various lounges around the Village.

“You have to turn the thing and it is really loud,” New Zealand equestrian athlete Clarke Johnstone said. “I just sort of went in and got a couple and then left, to be honest.”

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"I should have just marched in the opening ceremony. I should have just marched and had fun. Everyone's hyping it up all year long and you're done in nine minutes."

Courtney Hurley regrets having an early night on Friday instead of going to the opening ceremony after she gets knocked out of the women's epee individual in the fencing.

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Former Scottish swimmer David Carry was on the BBC Breakfast sofa and behind the BBC Radio 5 live mic this morning, discussing Britain's record-breaking Adam Peaty.

"I went out pretty fast, quite easy, came back and I heard everyone cheering and I was like, 'What are they cheering for?, there's no Brazilians in this lane'."

Adam Peaty appears to have got a bit distracted in his 100m heat but still went on to break his own world record.

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