Rio 2016 live: Mo Farah wins 10,000m gold, Jess Ennis-Hill battles to silver and Greg Rutherford takes bronze
Team GB win a gold, silver and bronze in the athletics after dominating in cycling and rowing
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Your support makes all the difference.Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Andy Murray are among the athletes in action in day eight of the Rio Olympics, which promises to live up to the expectation of "Super Saturday". Here are the latest updates:
- Mo Farah retains his 10,000m title to win Olympic gold No 3
- Jessica Ennis-Hill takes silver in the women's heptathlon
- Greg Rutherford clinches bronze in exhilerating long jump final
- Women's team pursuit race to gold against the USA
- Becky James gets silver in the Women's Keirin
- Great Britain win gold in men's eight final
- Women's eight take silver to continue rowing medal success
- Andy Murray beats Kei Nishikori to reach men's tennis final
- Usain Bolt eases through 100m heats
- Michael Phelps ends Olympic career with 4x100m medley relay gold
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Bolt is to make his first appearance at Rio this afternoon in the men's 100m heats, while Jessica Ennis-Hill will continue the heptathlon with the long jump after finishing Friday's events in the lead.
British rowers will be hoping for a podium finish in both the women's and men's eight finals and medals are also up for grabs in the cycling women's team pursuit and keirin, featuring Team GB's Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell.
Andy Murray continues his defence against Kei Nishikori in the tennis semi-finals, and will next face Rafael Nadal or Juan Martin Del Potro in the gold medal match if he emerges victorious.
Britain's Greg Rutherford will be going for another long jump gold after midnight, and in the early hours of Sunday morning Mo Farah will be running the 10,000m race.
Michael Phelps and Adam Peaty will be swimming in the men's 4x100m medley relay final at around 3am.
Team GB is hoping to add to its haul of gold medals, which put Britain third on the medal table behind only the US and China at the start of Saturday's action.
Women's Heptathlon: With Ennis-Hill in second and KTJ in sixth, there's still one more event to come for this evening. The 200m is expected to get underway in the next 20 minutes or so and both Britons will be hoping they can put the disappointment of the shot-put behind them as they look to knock Belgium's Nafi Thiam off the top spot.
Men's Long Jump: It's another foul from Rutherford second time round. Despite making a small adjustment to his run-up, having moved the marker back ever so slightly, it still wasn't enough. The pressure is really on now for the defending champion...
Women's 200m backstroke: USA's Madeline Dirado wins gold in the 200m backstroke - the first swim of the evening. Hungary's Katinka Hosszu had been down to take the top spot on the podium but has been pipped to it by the American who won by 0.06 seconds.
Men's 100m Butterly: The Le Clos v Phelps rivalry is back in full-swing. It's a weak start from the American but can he turn it back?
Last night's swimming action saw Michael Phelps compete and NOT win. It proved to be a crazy race that saw three silver medallists and Singapore's first ever gold medal, and there's a remarkable story behind the 21-year-old winner, Joseph Schooling:
Women's heptathlon: Katarina Johnson-Thompson needs an impressive showing in the long jump today, the event that saw her hopes of gold at the world championships earlier this year die dramatically as she recorded three consecutive no jumps. She's on the board immediately this time with a solid 6.51m, although her personal best is a much bigger 6.93m.
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