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.
Usain Bolt's just received his 200m gold on the rostrum.
Doesn't he look delighted?
Women's high jump: Great Britain's Holly Bradshaw clears 4.50m on her first attempt. A perfect start.
It was a dramatic night in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays, with both Team GB and Tea, USA seeing disqualifications destroy their medal hopes. First up saw Britian's 4x400m relay team win their semi-final, only to discover they had been disqualified without reason:
Next up, the men's 4x100m relay final saw Team USA come home in third and secure bronze behind Usain Bolt's Jamaica and Japan, only to look up at the big screen while on their celebratory lap of honour to see a DQ next to their name. It proved to be the ninth time the American's had been disqualified from an Olympics or World Championships in just 21 years:
Men's canoe sprint: Liam Heath is getting his final preparations underway for the 200m K1 final, and after winning both his heat and semi-final yesterday, he'll harbour genuine hopes of winning a medal here - with eyes certainly set on the top step of the podium.
Men's canoe sprint: They get away first time in the eight man field, and it's a rapid race this that lasts just a matter of seconds. Heath's in the running at the front at the halfway mark, and he pushes into the lead... LIAM HEATH WINS GOLD!
Men's canoe sprint: Heath didn't make the fastest of starts, but as soon as the race kicks on he began to eat into the lead held by France's Maxime Beaumont. They reach the halfway mark level, and Heath begins to pull clear to win in a time of 35.19 seconds. Bronze is shared between Spain's Saul Craviotto Rivero and Germany's Ronald Rauhe.
Men's canoe sprint: That men's Team GB have secured gold No 25 of the Rio Olympic Games, just four behind their London 2012 total and, in securing their 61st medal overall, Britain is also just four medals behind the record total haul set four years ago. History is on the cards here.
Women's triathlon: Stanford has worked her way up to second on the bike, but don't read too much into that, as it's a lead group of 18 riders that flash through the finish line as they complete the first lap. All to play for.
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