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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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.
Athletics: USA runner Ashton Eaton hopes to become the first man since Britain's Daley Thompson in 1984 to successfully defend his Olympic title when he takes to the track this afternoon. The 28-year-old has broke the world record twice since 2012.
Hammer: Team GB's hopes of reaching the final are up after Nick Miller, Chris Bennett and Mark Dry all miss out on a qualification spot.
BMX: It's the event we've all been waiting for, that most time-honoured of Olympic disciplines, the BMX.
Look at that track. Like little Mount Olympuses.
Sailing: An update on Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark's wait for gold - we're still waiting.
The start has been put back a further 10 minutes due to a change in conditions.
Hockey: Still 1-0, thought New Zealand are having a lot of joy in Great Britain's territory.
It's resolute stuff from the GB women, however, who are holding their opponents off.
Basketball: Closing moments in the basketball and if what's happening on court isn't much of a spectacle, what's happening in the stands certainly is.
Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony et al can't take their eyes off the legions of barmy Argentine supporters cheering their side on, even though they're 24 points behind.
One of the more surreal and enjoyable sights of these Games so far.
Women's long jump: Serbia's Ivana Spanovic leads with a 6.95m jump so far.
Jazmin Sawyers is in seventh-place with a jump of 6.69m.
Men's 200m semi-finals: Justin Gatlin and Yohan Blake are set to go in the third heat, with Team GB's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake also competing.
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