Rio 2016 live: Usain Bolt wins third 100m title as Team GB dominates on Sunday night with gold rush
Follow the latest medals and news from Rio as Usain Bolt confirms his status as the world's fastest man
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Your support makes all the difference.Max Whitlock won two gold medals for Team GB, ending a 120-year wait for medal glory in the Olympic gymnastics, while Justin Rose added a third in the golf with Jason Kenny taking the fourth in the Velodrome. The fifth came late in the night as Andy Murray overcame Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in the tennis final.
Inside the Olympic Stadium, Usain Bolt stormed to gold in the men's 100m as he crossed the line in 9.81 seconds. Here are the latest updates:
- Usain Bolt wins his third consecutive gold medal in the 100m
- Justin Rose captures golf's first gold medal in 108 years
- Whitlock confirms his status as Britain's greatest male gymnast
- Jason Kenny wins his fifth Olympic gold medal
- 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
- 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
- Michael Phelps ends Olympic career with 4x100m medley relay gold
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This winning a gold medal thing is becoming a bit of a habit for Great Britain who added three more on day eight to take their tally to nine – with success coming in the rowing, cycling and athletics on another 'Super Saturday'.
The GB joy was delivered at the scenes of their recent successes: the velodrome and Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, home of the rowing. Yet it was the sight of Mo Farah powering home down the final straight inside the Olympic Stadium that could prove to be the iconic image of this Olympics from a British perspective.
Farah's dreams of a third consecutive gold medal - and the second in the 10,000m following his double triumph at London 2012 - was nearly derailed by aan early fall when his American training partner, Galen Rupp, accidentally tripped him.
But Farah bouonced back immediately, and held off a spirited last-lap attack from Kenyan Paul Kipngetoch Tanui to clinch a thrilling victory.
It's another gold for Team GB! It was guaranteed a while ago but Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark have crossed the finishing line to confirm it. It's Team GB's 21st gold of the Summer Games and Britain's second of the day. Rule Britannia!
Great Britain's Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark have brought their 470 partnership to a dream end by wrapping up Olympic gold.
Four years on from taking silver on the home waters of Weymouth and Portland, the duo arrived in Brazil determined to go one better.
It was a challenge Mills and Clark met with aplomb, producing an opening series as impressive as it was consistent to see them head into the women's 470 medal race all but assured of gold.
The British duo merely had to complete the double-point medal race without disqualification and duly did so, easing home in eighth in the delayed finale to rubber-stamp glory. (Simon Peach in Rio)
Taekwondo: A flurry of kicks land on Glasnovic, but she responds well by connecting with Jones' head.
The second round ends with the British hopeful 4-3 up - a slender lead going into this last round.
Taekwondo: Jones takes a spot in the Olympic final!
She progresses with a substantial 9-4 lead after a composed duel with Sweden's Glasnovic.
The gold medal match will be at 2.00am BST. We'll have updates here.
Men's 1,500m semi-final: Let's get going then with the first 1,500m semi-final.
Great Britain's Charlie Grice is in contention.
Men's 1,500m semi-final: Charlie Grice makes it by six-hundredths of a second.
He'll be in the Olympic final, sneaking through in 5th having exploited a tight gap on the inside.
The rapidly unravelling story of the Rio Games is the one concerning US swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Feigen. The United States Olympic Committee have confirmed that the alleged armed robbery story was indeed a cover-up used by Lochte and Feigen, and criminal charges could follow. Here's the latest:
There's been a worrying developments in terms of the Zika virus...
In one of the funnier stories emerging from the Olympics, here's Kuwait's Abdullah al-Rashidi, wearing an Arsenal shirt due to his participation for the International Team after Kuwait's ban from Rio 2016. And in true Arsenal fashion, he managed to finish third in the men's skeet. You couldn't script it any better.
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