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 road race: First update in from the roads and it's a one-woman breakaway. It's a courageously bold move from Belgium's Lotte Kopecky, as she broke at the front of the peloton only to see no one go with her. She's built up a two minute gap, but with no wind buffer or anyone to share the work load, you'd back the peloton the reel her in.
Men's Swimming: As we head into the early hours of Monday morning, all British eyes will be on Adam Peaty, as the world record holder goes for gold - and Team GB's first medal of the Rio Games - in the 100m breaststroke final at 02:53 BST.
Men's Tennis: There was controversy out on Centre Court earlier today when Germany's Dustin Brown was regularly booed during his first round match with Brazil's Thomaz Belluci - even when he suffered a badly twisted ankle. Matt Gatward was courtside as the pantomine atmosphere turned sour, and he asks: did they go one step too far?
Men's Tennis: Speaking of Tomaz Belluci, he's back on Centre Court with his Brazilian compatriot Andre Sa as they take on Team GB's dynamic duo of Andy and Jamie Murray. The scores are currently locked at 3-3 in the opening set in what is proving a high-energy encounter.
This stunning image, by AFP's Andrej Isakovic, sums up a lot of what has been said about these Games so far.
Bravo.
Table tennis: Paul Drinkhall faces Beluras' former world silver medallist in the last 16 Vladimir Samsonov in the sternist test of his Olympic credentials. That match is later tonight at 01:30 BST.
Synchro diving: Bronze for Tom and Dan! They've done it at the very death.. It was oh so tense as Daley and Goodfellow awaited the scores but the Team GB pair are in third place on 444.45, above the Germans on 438.42. China gets the gold (496.98) and the United States seal silver (547.11).
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