Dame Kelly Holmes
Double Olympic champion on BBC Breakfast

The whole of the GB team are now inspirations to the nation. 

We talk about a new generation, but actually it's a new generation who are performing for us in these Games.

If you think about the girls in the 4x100m, the eldest is 25 and the others are 19 or 20. They're here for another two Games maybe.

People were worried after London that a lot of people would retire. But we've got 16-year-old gymnasts getting bronze medals and then Nick Skelton. We've gone from 16 to 58. 

That's the inspiration, to say anything is possible

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Great Britain hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh and Helen Richardson-Walsh became the first married couple to win gold for Britain since Cyril and Dorothy Wright in the sailing in 1920.  

“It is really special. To win an Olympic medal is special, to win an Olympic medal with your wife standing next to you, taking the penalty in the pressure moments is so special.” said Kate.

“I honestly felt the more the crowd booed, the more Helen was going to score. I know how that inspires her, the passion of wanting to prove others wrong and deliver.”

Kate's interview with the BBC back in 2014 where she talks more about her pride in hockey's culture, is worth a re-watch.

Dame Kelly Holmes
Double Olympic champion on BBC Breakfast

For me, Usain is Mr Athletics. 

I was over in Rio and the times when Usain was competing, it was full. 

It's so incredible to see his talent and, more than that, what he's brought to the sport and what everyone feels about him. Everyone wants him to win.

To do the triple triple is incredible. I don't think we'll ever see anything like that again. 

Usain Bolt, GB's women's hockey glory, Nick Skelton winning gold - we bring you all this and more in Radio 5 live's day 14 podcast. Listen by clicking right here.

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Those are the numbers and the audio to sum up Usain Bolt's era-defining greatness. For the written words though, come to Tom Fordyce's feature.

"When Usain Bolt leaves his sport, it will feel like the moment the lights suddenly come on in a nightclub," he writes.

"We all know it must come to an end. We have tried to imagine otherwise all the same. Keep dancing along, keep relishing every transcendent moment. One more tune, one more collective rush."

Right now though, our man is Rio is swaying, arms aloft, eyes shut, high on the sprint supply of the main man.

Here's how Usain Bolt's ninth gold medal was described on BBC Radio 5 live. 

Goosebumps. 

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If the man himself was still in doubt, he was probably the only one.

"There you go, I'm the greatest," Usain Bolt confirmed after running the anchor leg in Jamaica's 4x100m triumph.

The gold completed an unprecedented triple triple clean sweep of 100m, 200m and 4x100m golds at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

His record means he has picked up a gold medal for every 36 seconds spent on the track, including the qualifying rounds.

For the numbers behind Bolt's impeccable Olympic record read this excellent BBC feature.

• Usain Bolt completes triple triple after Jamaica win 4x100m relay
• GB's women win Olympic gold after thrilling final
• The women's 4x100m GB relay team claim bronze
• GB men fail to overturn 4x400m disqualification

What all that and more with out Olympic catch-up...

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Great Britain's success is splashed all across the back pages of today's papers.

The Daily Telegraph, above, can't resist taking modern hockey back to a St Trinians past, while the Herald, below, feature Alex Danson, scorer of GB's final equaliser, on its front page.

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Sally Walton, who won bronze in hockey at London 2012, has been on BBC Breakfast talking about the team's gold medal in Rio.

Her former GB team-mates beat The Netherlands in a dramatic penalty shoot-out to take the title.

"True to form the Dutch brought their A Game but fortunately for us the GB girls were tougher," said Walton.

The hero of the match was goalie Maddie Hinch, who made a string of remarkable saves.

"For those that know her, she lives on the edge and trains every day for those moments. She's being recognised  on world level which she deserves.

"She’s the perfect role model. She lives and breaths sport. The girls are giving us a legacy. We saw influx of people playing after London and now we hope to see a massive influx again, thanks to the girls."

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Great Britain keeper Maddie Hinch was a star performer in helping the women's hockey team to Olympic gold and was helped by a little black book.

Hinch studied some notes on Netherlands before a penalty shootout - where five players from each team get eight seconds to try and score - and it worked.

She was unbeaten in the shootout and Helen Richardson-Walsh and Hollie Webb scored for GB to secure a dramatic victory.

"Goalkeeping has its highs and lows. You can be a villain, but you can also be a hero in the moment," said Hinch.

"It helped that the Dutch had a shootout in their semi-final, so that gave me a chance to see what they do, but I basically give myself a game plan for each player and I execute that and thankfully it worked. Thankfully the Dutch did what I thought they would do."

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Simon Mason
Ex-GB Olympic hockey player on BBC One

I am genuinely struggling to put that into words. GB were under pressure for huge chunks but we thought if it went to penalties they could win.

Fair play Maddie Hinch. Just incredible. That will change the face of British hockey.

So in the words of a nineties Pat Sharp,, external "let's re-run the fun."

What Friday night drama.

In a thrilling match against the Netherlands, the match finished 3-3 in normal time before Team GB won the penalty shootout 2-0.

Britain's keeper Maddie Hinch put in a heroic performance as she made a string of remarkable saves against the defending champions and world champions.

Helen Richardson-Walsh and Hollie Webb scored the decisive penalties to win Britain's 24th gold at Rio 2016. Amazing.

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In De Telegraaf this morning, external, columnist Jacques Brinkman refers to the Dutch silver medals being like "acid" and says that their defeat to the Great Britain, effectively ranked seventh in the world to the Netherlands' number one, was "embarassing".

Meanwhile on this side of the channel, there is only jubilation.

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What is Dutch for Brinks Mat?

Today, the Netherlands is waking up trying to work out how, despite having 17 shots to seven and 10 penalty corners to four, Great Britain stole gold from under their noses in a crazy, heady night at the hockey arena.

But, in the immortal words of Barry Davies from the last time Great Britain won an Olympic hockey title, "Frankly, who cares?"

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