Great Britain are going backwards.

Gb v Italy for bronze now. A straight slug-out.

100m to go.

Great Britain are up into silver medal position!

Can they hang on? South Africa are pushing hard.

New Zealand are long gone.

New Zealand's pair of Bond and Murray start to pour on the pace and leave the rest behind.

That might be the last we see of them.

They are 1.36 seconds clear of Italy in second, with Great Britain in third.

At 500m it is South Africa who are making the pace, but the field are tightly packed.

The Brits are 1.65 seconds back in fifth.

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Peter Beaumont wears a brave face after the GB men's quad finished fifth in their final, with his son, Jack, a late call-up to replace the ill Graeme Thomas. 

"I'm disappointed that they didn't get a medal," he says. "But this time last year Jack broke his back, so I'm sure that we'll reflect with pride once the dust has settled."

Former Olympian Peter joked that he still had "bragging rights" in the family after he finished fourth in the men's eight crew in the 1988 Seoul Games, but adds: "He's already achieved more in his career than I did, and he's only 22."

Brace yourself for some whiffy James Bond puns on the television coverage.

"No, Mr Bond I expect you to win." "The man with the golden oar." That is the standard that we are talking about.

The reason? New Zealanders Hamish Bond and Eric Murray are about to row for men's pairs gold.

Unbeaten in the class since way back in 2009, they are red-hot favourites.

Great Britain's Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes will hope to get involved in the scrap for scrapes.

Naomi Folkard, at her fourth attempt, has made it through to her first Olympic archery quarter-final.

She upsets the crowd by beating the Brazilian competitor by six sets to two.

Her quarter final will take place at 19:39 BST later today. He opponent is yet to be decided... 

Graeme Thomas had to abandon his Olympic hopes after he fell ill in Rio De Janeiro. Understandably, he's upset at the result of the men's quad. 

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It seems a lifetime ago that Adam Peaty won Team GB's first gold medal of the Games. In fact it was only in the early hours of Monday morning!

Peaty is now the pride of Uttoxeter, and his local BBC Radio station marked his achievement with a special one-hour long show.

To listen back to it, head here.

In case you had forgotten in all the Olympic excitement, the 2016-2017 Premier League season starts this weekend... 

Don't forget to play our Predictor game - pitch your predictions against friends and other fans. Create leagues and collect points to see who comes out on top.

It's going to be a busy weekend of super duper sport isn't it?

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Richard Chambers and Will Fletcher fall short of making the double sculls final.

If you like archery, it's worth watching here as GB's Naomi Folkard looks for the opportunity to shoot in the quarter final. She has just taken the first set against Brazilian, Ane Marcelle dos Santos.

If you aren't a fan of archery, it's worth watching anyway as they play some brilliant tunes between sets...

"Getting jiggy with it" by Will Smith was a personal highlight... 

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Team GB's Graeme Thomas missed out on the Olympics this year due to illness, but he predicts great things for Britain's rowers in today's finals. 

Next up on the water is the women's quadruple sculls final.

Britain did not put a boat in for this event.

It is expected to be a three-way scrap for gold between Germany, world champions United Stats and Poland.

Great Britain went out hard to put themselves in with a shout in the first quarter of the race, but they did not have the training and consistency behind them to hold onto the favourites coattails.

They end up fifth, two and a half seconds off the Estonian boat in third.

Great Britain are pushing hard.

They check in fifth, 3.66 seconds off the leaders, but a lot closer to the Poland boat in front of them.

A big last haul called for now...

Off we go.

Great Britain have had a rocky road to Rio in the quadruple sculls, can the class of 2016 win Great Britain's first Olympic medal at the event?

The British crew are third, 1.36 seconds off the leading Germans at 500m.

They have slipped to fourth, three seconds off the pace at 1000m.