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.
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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