There are around 30 'national houses' in Rio promoting their country through good times and traditional dress.

The Wall Street Journal did a little tour back at the start of the Games., external The Netherlands House looks like a holiday resort brought to the city.

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If Team GB's fantastic night of hockey has made you think about picking up sticks, find out how to join your local team with Get Inspired.

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We live in a cynical age.

But sport still can melt the hardest heart.

Last night, we saw Great Britain's Lutalo Muhammad cried tears of despair just a few hours before the hockey team were reduced to blubbering wrecks - this time of joy.

And they are only playing. We have to watch.

We want to know when sport - either professional or personal - has reduced you to tears - happy or sad. 

As long as the ducts are emptied, we are interested.

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With more than 200 gold medals to their name, China have become one of the dominant nations in the Olympics since their debut in 1984.

In that time, Great Britain have never finished above them in the medal table.

BUT with two days to go and four further medals on day 14, Britain occupy second place - having won more gold medals than the Chinese who sit in third.  

Data analyst Gracenote Sports, which creates a Virtual Medal Table for the Olympic Games, is predicting that GB will beat China to second place in the medals table.

Here are their predictions for Day 15 of the Games:

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Do you think Team GB can defy these predictions? 

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"I thought you cancelled the milk?"

"No, I was in charge of getting the chamois cream, external"

"And I was downloading the pre-race playlists."

"Well, we are eating rice pudding for a month either way."

Jason Kenny picks fiancee Laura Trott up at Manchester Airport. The pair have five shiny new bits of neckwear to install in their Knutsford home.

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Leon Taylor fills us in on how dives are judged and what we can expect from Tom Daley, with a little help from another 'Tom'.

And don't forget to play along with BBC commentator Bob Ballard's Diving Bingo:

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11:00 - The final round of the women's golf tournament gets under way with South Korea's Inbee Park holding a two-shot lead.

13:07 - GB's Liam Heath bids for his second medal of the Olympics in canoe sprint in the men's K1 200m final. The women's K4 500m final is at 13:47.

15:00 - Britain's Non Stanford, Helen Jenkins and Vicky Holland are all medal contenders in the women's triathlon.

15:45 - Mahama Cho in the +80kg category and Bianca Walkden in the +67kg class look to add to Britain's taekwondo medal tally.

18:00 - Boxer Nicola Adams takes on France's Sarah Ourahmoune for gold as she bids to retain her flyweight title.

20:30 - Tom Daley will hope to win gold in the 10m platform final.

01:15 - Lynsey Sharp takes on Caster Semenya in the final of the 800m.

01:30 - Mo Farah goes for his second gold and the 'double double' in the 5,000m.

02:35 - Athletics finishes with the 4x400m relay finals.

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Kate Rooney - the former British pole vaulter - has tweeted her frustration after husband Martyn Rooney and the rest of the GB's 4x400m team were disqualified on Saturday evening. 

She has not been particularly complimentary about Brazil's Olympic organisers, accusing them of disqualifying "any teams that get in their way so they can make the final". 

She has also said she was disappointed with the Rio crowd booing pole vault silver medallist Renaud Lavillenie on the podium. 

She added: "Team GB have had an amazing Olympics and i've loved watching every moment of athletes deliver when it matters, I just wish our boys had the chance to do so too". 

Confusion, Denial, Appeal, Anger. 

The four stages of relay disqualification for Great Britain's 4x400m squad last night.

Nigel Levine, Delano Williams, Matthew Hudson-Smith and Martyn Rooney won their semi-final in two minutes and 58.88 seconds, only to find out that their result has been struck out for "taking the baton out of an exchange zone".

Theere are more lines on a relay track than on the deck of an aircraft carrier, but far more experienced minds than mine could not work out their transgression.

"I haven't been involved in so much speculation as I have in the next 20 minutes," former Olympic champion Michael Johnson said as he reviewed the footage.

"It has to have been a judge that decided he saw something somewhere that they decided was an infringement, but I just can't think what that could be."

British Athletics appeal failed to overturn the disqualification.

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Nick Skelton is living proof you don't have to be young to be an Olympian, or to compete at an international level in sport.

Find out how to get into equestrian sports with Get Inspired's guide.

The dazzle of Usain Bolt's ninth Olympic gold medal, should not distract from a superb bronze from Great Britain's superb bronze in 4x100m .

Great Britain's quartet failed to even reach the final at London 2012.

Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita ran a British record of 41.77 seconds in Rio's Olympic Stadium to finish third behind the United States and Jamaica.

The force is strong in this four. Watch to end of the interviews above, heart-warming stuff.

"Literally tears were rolling down my face."

London gold, meet Rio gold...

Rio gold meet London gold...

This could have been the final story about Nick Skelton on the BBC Sport website.

Back in September 2000 - having already been ruled out of the Sydney Olympics that started a week later - he broke his neck in two places in a bad fall. 

The upper half of his spine was immobilised for five months. He retired in 2001 having been warned that another fall could be fatal.

But the bone healed, he returned and yesterday, at the age of 58, he became Britain's second-oldest Olympic gold medallist in his seventh Games.

"You always dream about it but when it actually happens it is real life," he said.

Joshua Millner, who claimed shooting gold in 1908 at the age of 61, is the only person older than Skelton to have won gold for GB.  

Dan Skelton, racehorse trainer and son of Nick, is justifiably proud of his old man.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has cemented his place as a legend of athletics at the Rio Olympics, earning his ninth gold medal in as many attempts.

He's so fast that he could have finished 100m in the time it's taken you to read up to here.

Our colleagues at BBC News have crunched his numbers and come up with some fascinating facts about the fastest man in the world.

Have a read...quick. 

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Double Olympic Taekwondo champion Jade Jones tells us what is cool and what's not in our 'Can i kick it?' quiz.

The tiny margins and gaping chasms of contrast.

Nothing has shown sport's ruthless division and demarcation more at Rio 2016 than Lutalo Muhammad's silver medal for Great Britain last night.

After bronze at London 2012, the Londoner has said that athletes on the bottom two steps only "take home" medals. Only gold is "won".

He led 6-4 going into the final second of his gold-medal bout against Cheick Sallah Cisse - and was beaten with a last-ditch spinning kick.

Cue a manic lap of the arena from Cisse as he celebrated Ivory Coast's first ever Olympic gold and gut-wrenching tears from Muhammad.