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.
Men's 200m semi-finals: Wow. Justin Gatlin will not be the final.
Alonso Edward and Churandy Martina take the top two spots, Yohan Blake's recent injury problem see him fall well short, but what an upset re: Gatlin.
He looked to ease up slightly with 50m to go. Massive error and it's cost him the chance of besting Bolt.
Women's long jump: Enormous jump from Tianna Bartoletta - 7.17m - pushes her right to the top of the rankings in the long jump final.
Jazmin Sawyers is still back on 6.69m.
Women's 200m: Final coming up, with the Netherlands' Dafne Schippers the favourite. She'll face competition from the United Sates' Tori Bowie.
Dina Asher-Smith qualified by the skin of her teeth last night. Can she recover from some patchy form to medal? It's a big ask.
Men's Triathlon: Jonny and Alistair will be in action shortly. It's hot, really hot. That won't suit the boys who are used to the drizzly, cooler temperament of North Yorkshire but there's a reason they're the sport's best. Alistair is looking to make history to become the first triathlete to defend his Olympic title. Bring it on.
Men's Triathlon: And here they go! Like those summer holidays by the beach, they rush down the beach and dive head first into the ocean - let's just hope their sun-cream is waterproof...
Men's Double Badminton: Elsewhere, Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge have won the first set in the badminton, 21-18! They're in pole position now for that bronze medal.
Men's Triathlon: The Brownlee brothers have worked their way to the leading pack and are now setting the pace for their third lap of eight. Alistair and Jonny are working tirelessly to shed as many chases as they can as they ascend the track's tough slope. Their main challenger, Spain’s Mario Mola, is struggling to keep up with the British brothers and is trailing by more than a minute in the chasing group.
Men's Triathlon: Alistair and Jonny are leading the way as they finish their second lap. They're 13 seconds ahead of South Africa's Schoeman in third. Barring any disaster, it should be a one-two for Britain and Team GB's 20th gold medal. 5,000km to go.
Speaking to BBC TV, Alistair Brownlee had this to say: "We have been pushing each other to the max. Jonny had the edge and I wasn’t sure I would win, I knew I had to go through hell and I did.
"I was delighted at the finish. On that run I got the gap and I was thinking it is good but kept trying to focus and when I got onto the blue carpet I was so happy.
"I knew the gap was big and I had a chance to enjoy it, it will probably never happen again."
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