Plenty of clowning around in Rio...

Great Britain's Andrew Butchart who reached the 5000m final on BBC One: "You have got to make yourself known to these guys, I was unknown to the majority of the field before the race and hopefully after today they will keep an eye on me in the final.

"I have never been in this situation before. My aim was to make the final and now I will see what I can do.

"I have been training my butt off and it shows that if you can put the effort in, you can get the benefits."

The Scot is from Dunblane and he said he spoke to the town's most famous son before his race.

"I spoke to Andy (Murray) after his final. He wished me good luck and good luck to him in Cincinati if he is watching."

Tom Farrell after finishing 20th, a minute outside of his personal best: I've had a fairly tough year and I knew it would be a tough ask for the final but it just hasn't happened for me today. 

We are going to have to go back and assess it with my coach but I'm honoured to make the Olympics.

This Great Britain fan is going to be accessorising with some serious sweat patches.

It is a toasty 33 degrees in the Olympic Stadium. 

Mo Farah's been speaking on BBC One after qualifying for Saturday's 5,000m final. 

The first question he's asked is about tripping up on the final lap...

"I got clipped at the end," he said. "I just had to stay strong and now I've got to recover. It's hard work in this heat so I've got to rest up now.

"Sometimes you've just got to get through it and see how it goes. 

"I haven't recovered from the 10k as well as I wanted. I just need more rest now, put my feet up and chill in my room."

Paula Radcliffe
Women's marathon world record holder on BBC TV

That was very impressive from Andrew Butchart. It will have done his confidence the world of good.

A very mature run from Andrew Butchart who keeps his nose clean at the front, stretches out the field behind him and then trots along with a bunch of four others to make his way into Sunday's final.

Two laps to go in the second heat of the 5000m and Great Britain's Andrew Butchart pushes the pace on at the front, perhaps conscious that he might need a fastest loser spot rather than rely on getting into the top five.

Atdarighttime: @Mo_Farah well done in the 5k heats. Rest up now for the next one. You can do it Mo!! All the UK is behind you!!

Julia Hilbourne: @Mo_Farah please stop tripping & falling over, you're giving us all heart attacks back home!

Martin Kelly: Dear Mo - will you please stop scaring the living daylights out of us? Thanks.

Great Britain's Tom Farrell and Andrew Butchart are attempting to join Mo Farah in Sunday's morning 5,000m final.

They have some punchy runners alongside them though in Dejen Gebremeskel and Muktar Edris of Ethiopia.

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The Sydney Morning Herald highlights, external Australia’s lack of medals in Rio as somewhat of an expensive failure.

“Australia’s underwhelming performance in Brazil is set to come at a cost of as much as $11 million per medal to the taxpayer,” it says.

The report adds that Australia has tried but failed to take a leaf out of Team GB’s funding strategy in its search for Olympic success.

“In all, $340m has been injected into summer Olympic sports using the national lottery funding model adopted by Great Britain in the lead-up to its home Olympics as an inspiration.

"But while Team GB, with £274m ($466m) pledged to their Olympic sports between 2013 and 2017, are still enjoying the afterglow of London by punching well above their weight here, the jury is still out for Australia's programme.”

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer in Rio

Nervous qualification from Farah, those invisible trip-wires that appear on the track in crowded, anxious heats like this almost ending his hopes of an Olympic distance double-double in the worst possible way. One fall in a critical race quite enough, obrigado.

Brendan Foster
Olympic medallist and BBC athletics commentator on BBC One

Mo needs to be careful. He fell in the final of the 10,000m and was tripped there. He has to ask himself if he is part of those incidents with his habit of slowing in the group?

It's all over in the men's 5,000m first heat and Britain's Mo Farah qualifies for the final after coming in third.

He almost tripped again, though...

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Denmark's Nicole Larsen is making the early pace in the golf at four under, one shot ahead of Chinese Taipei's Candie Kung.

Britain's Catriona Matthew isat level par through 10 with team-mate Charley Hull set to tee off at 15:09 BST.

The athletes cross the line with five laps to go, and Britain's Mo Farah is out in front alongside Hagos Gerbrhiwet of Ethiopia, who won bronze at the worlds in 2015. 

This video is titled 'Michael Johnson vs a moth'.

Let's not add anything else to that...

Remember Maria, the bride-to-be who gatecrashed Dan Walker's live broadcast on BBC Four earlier in the week? Well here's Maria's mother with a very special invitation.

Unlike in the 10,000m, Mo Farah positioned himself at the front of the field as he set off in the 5,000m heats. The defending champion is currently in 10th/11th place. It's pretty crowded at the moment. 

Talking of heat(s), it looks like a scorcher out there. 

Great Britain's Rachel Cawthorn - like compatriots Liam Heath and Jon Schofield - will have to qualify for the final from the semi-final. 

She has finished fourth in her heat.