Day 3: Full Round-Up Olympic Sportsday

Another day is done the last of the fans are making their way home

after high drama across this amazing facility. It is time for

your one stop shop for all the day's sport and time for Olympic

Sports Day. Tonight nerves jangle in the gymnastic as GB win their

first team medal for over a century. A 15-year-old wins gold in the pool.

And hell hath no fury like a woman with a sword. And the story from

the men's gymnastics later. And round up the rest of the news with

this particular Fleet Street flyer, Oliver Holt of the Daily Mirror.

First the evening in the swimming, where there was sort of British

success and plenty of tales to be told. Ruta Meilutyte, a whrirtian

who trains in Plymouth and became the first person to win a swimming

medal for her country. It will be tight. Meilutyte it is. A gold

medal to Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania and Plymouth. There must

be something in the water in Plymouth, Meilutyte attends the

same college as Tom Daley. How does a 15-year-old react to becoming

Olympic champion. How special is this for you? It is too much for me.

Talk to me about dad, dad is watching in Plymouth. SPEAKS IN

LITHUANIAN. What does that mean? Thank you I love you. I can't

believe you. Thank you darling. She'd better believe it. And Agnel

destroyed Lochte in the free style. The American president's wife

wasn't in the aquatic centre, perhaps she should have been and

would have saw two golds for her country, for Matt Grevers, Liam

Tancock finishing fifth and two for Missy Franklin, a 17-year-old who

one could touch in the women's 1 hundred m backstroke. Jemma

Spofforth finished fifth. enjoyed this and I want to say to

people at a time of crisis there is people there. I have been rock

bottom and it is nice to find a passion again. No doubt Ruta Mel

Pete teeter enjoys it, the -- rue that Meilutyte enjoys it. Hers is a

face and a name to be remembered. Looks like an innocent face. If you

have questions on that subject you want to put to Oliver, send them in

on Twitter. Michael Phelps was the stand out swimming story, but young

Ruta and plenty of the women are coming through. She seem like an

amazing tale. She even the has some Plymouth Argyle green in her outfit.

There is a swementation to feel that temptation for us to claim her,

because she claims -- trains in Plymouth with Tom Daley. But I

think one of the big differences from Beijing that we're seeing is

that fell pts -- Phelps was the one dominant character. Irdon't think

there will be one. We thought it might be Lochte, but he finished

fourth and Phelps isn't anywhere near the swimmer we saw four years

ago and the French are an impressive team. Yes. I think

you're right about lockty te. People -- Lochte, people talk about

him as the new Phelps. But we are beginning to realise the

achievement of Phelps in Beijing. Lochte has 1-1 gold, but he won't

be as dominate. And one e-mail from Michael The Fish. You have been so

great sporting arenas, how did the at Mott fear in the swimming feel?

It was a great atmosphere. If you talk about the great atmospheres in

sport, you would talk about Anfield on a European night in midweek. One

of the best at moss fierce I have witnessed was in the aquatic centre

in Sydney. I think that was because Australia is such a huge swimming

nation. They had a great team with Ian Thorpe in his prime fighting

with the Americans. That was one of the great atmospheres. It is case

of remember the name, Ruta Meilutyte. Dom Daley was a

prominent face in the preparations for the Olympics. Taird he was

going - today he was going for Olympic gold in the sin conniezed

diving. The British pair finished diving. The British pair finished

just outside the medals. The challenge for Pete Waterfield and

Tom Daley to marry the atmosphere with the calm needed. To start with

everything was in harmony. Timed almost to perfection and perfection

is what this final would demand. The Chinese pair were always going

to be the ones to beat. But Daley and Waterfield matched them and

added in difficulty. Oh yes, fantastic. The Prime Minister's

presence confirmed this was marked as a moment of the games. But in a

moment, everything can change. Dive number four something went wrong.

Oh! I don't know what to say. size of the splash is equivalent to

the size of the problem. Waterfield's mistake send them

tumbling down. I just kicked a bit high and couldn't stop it. In this

competition you can't make mistake and we left ourselves with a lot to

do. We got a personal best in our first two required dives. Our third

diver was good. It was just our fourth dive. Others were heading in

the opposite direction. The Mexican pair thrived on difficulty and this

is one of the most complex dives seen in the Olympics. The Chinese

didn't need to show off. Every dive was a demonstration of why they

dominate. That look like gold number two for China. Daley and

Waterfield would have needed the perfect final dive and in a

discipline where margins are fine, they strayed just too far from

they strayed just too far from perfection. Often sport at the top

is about the fine margin and six perfect dive were needed. And you

saw from their faces they knew they had dropped one. Yes it was so

tantalising, being there, there was a mounting excitement and a feeling

that almost the impossible to beat the Chinese and yet at the half way

stage they were leading. So it was tantalising, but it is fine margins

and as Tom said, one mistake and you're gone. Is the fourth dive.

There has been some sad news and we hear a lot about this in sport now

and in life in general. The dark side of Twitter, Tom attacked

somebody on titter who said he had let his dead dad down. It is sad

that somebody would do that. But it is the front-page of the Daily

Mirror tomorrow a about Tom's attack on the Twitter trolls.

it will be in all the paper, his response to this sad little troll

and what this guy said. As you say, it happens, you see it time and

time again, people on Twitter attacking sportsmen. Jessica Ennis

said I'm not going on Twitter for two weeks over the Olympics, I

don't want that. I don't blame her. The irony today for me I think Tom

we have seen him grow up, we have watched him grow up over the years

and he has lived a very public life. What that horrible troll said about

his dad, I think the opposite was true. We saw Pete Waterfield gave

him a chance to protects himself. He said, we're a team and we win

and lose together. He stood with his friends and I thought he became

a man today. That is something that is more important than winning gold,

silver or bronze. Now, all the way back in 1912 the Titanic sadly sunk.

Asquirs was the Prime Minister and Britain won their last medal in the

gymnastics. But tonight the British are back on the map and a stunning

performance. But their bronze could have been even better. They had

come in hope they could make history, rope climbing was in the

disciplines the last time the British team reached the final. Now

they had a chance of a first medal they had a chance of a first medal

for a century. The enormity of reaching the fiedge had reduced

Louis Smith to tears. -- final. Britain had started well, but to

leap into contepgs they needed more. -- contention. We're a third of the

way through and team GB were in fifth and they needed to raise

their performance to claim a medal. Kristian Thomas had done that with

a stunning vaults. China's grip on gold was assured, but with tension

rising, Japan were led -- let second place W Thomas landing his

floor routine, Britain had stolen silver. A feat met with royal

approval. Except it wasn't as simple as that. Unhappy with the

score for Kohei Uchimura, the Japanese lodged an appeal and then

were elevated from fourth to runners up. Relegating Britain to

bronze. The protests and then getting the score changed, for us,

this is a dream come true. It is what dreams are made of. When I was

young that was all I could think about. Getting bronze is amazing.

Despite the late twist, Britain still exceeded all expectations

after so many years out of reckoning, these were medals to

reckoning, these were medals to cherish, regardless of their colour.

What a day for the gymnasts it should be open top bus tour time.

It was almost a weird sense of disappointment that the silver was

there. Yes there shouldn't be any disappointment. One of the things

about this is it reminds me of Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de

France, they have come from nowhere and there noise history of

achievement in this sport. -- there is no history. Actually the people

that I feel sorry for are the Ukrainians who thought they had...

Ru saw their faces. And they haven't got medals. For us bronze

or silver, it is a stunning achievement. Somebody said you

Brits are all the same, take off your Team GB hats and Kohei

Uchimura was di -- detected too many points. Most of the experts

seem to say that the appeal and the protest was fair enough. That the

right decision was made and as I say I have no problem with it. It

is a fantastic achievement. It doesn't make much difference to me

and it is a wonderful day for our sport. And they have still got the

In total, there were 12 medals up for grabs. We can show you some of

These were not the only gold medals handed out at the Olympics today.

Once again, there were more eye- popping exploits in a weightlifting.

There was a new record in the women's 58 kilogram section. It is

the best part of 31 stone but it would get even heavier as the day

judo. And also a gold for Russia. The Olympics is not just about

medals, it is also about great excitement. This quite incredible

three-pointer from Belinda smell -- Belinda Snell drew France level.

Despite this moment of magic, the Aussies would lose in overtime as

France recorded something of a surprise win, 74 points to 70. A

great sport is always about great drama and there was plenty of that

in the women's a page. The Korean thought she was through to the

final. There was a lengthy protest from the South Koreans which proved

fruitless. She lost the bronze medal and finished four. Big

Ukrainian took the Olympic crown and gold medal. But this is the

Olympics and it is all about how you play the game and the triumph

of human spirit in the face of Badminton as the true Olympic

spirit shone through one day three. This is how the medal table looks.

China leads the way as they did four years ago. USA had a good

night in that swimming pool. Kazakhstan have a couple of gold

medals in a road race and weightlifting. Great Britain have

United States argued that even though it China won more golds,

America will won more medals, what have you judge on, they will be

hoping Trina did not finish top of the medal table. They will and

people computed in different ways. Having been at the pool for a few

days already this week, you get an impression of the Chinese dominance

already. It will be a titanic battle between them. And a few

people are asking on Twitter, 19 gold medals and won in Beijing, can

you see that being better adore it equalled? Wake you see the gold

medal count being? First of all, there is no need to panic. You can

sense there are elements of panic and restlessness that we have not

won a gold yet. There were a couple of opportunities we thought might

happen, Mark Cavendish in the road race. I think some people were

expecting Rebecca Adlington to win gold because she did in Beijing.

Those have not happened. But I think there are lots of events

coming up quickly where we have very good possibilities of gold,

starting in the Equestrianism tomorrow. There is the women's pair.

On Wednesday morning there is Bradley Wiggins in the time-trial.

I do not think there is any need to panic. We have lots of good

opportunities coming up. I think we won 10 gold medals in one day in

Beijing so there is time. It is worth mentioning just briefly,

someone else who missed out on a medal in the fencing, she lost her

match which could have gone to the gold medal match. She thought it

was unfair so she decided to sit and wait because if she had left

the arena she would have been disqualified. It was a protest but

it was almost an honourable protesting the fencing. It was and

it was a desperately sad story. The Olympics are full of stories of

great triumph but they also full of stories of terrible, you know,

people who have worked for four years and miss out by a smidgen. It

was sad that she then went on to lose the bronze medal as well. It

would have been nice if she had won that. You are probably getting used

to the fact that the first few days of the Olympics are jam-packed with

a little bit of everything. We can talk tennis now. Wimbledon champion

Roger Federer was back at the All England Club today but he only came

back to Pall Mall Julien Bonnaire Toll France. Federer is yet to win

an Olympic gold medal.. Federer swept aside the Frenchman in

straight sets. It was also relatively straight forward for the

women's Wimbledon champion. Serena Williams made it through over

Poland's Ursula rap fans go, the sister of an yes go advance go. --

Venus Williams was the gold medallist from Sydney 12 years ago.

Now at the age of 32 she looked a long way from the lady who lost in

the first round of Wimbledon last month. She saw off the 9th seed 6-3,

6-1. Things were a bit choppy for Victoria Azarenka. She lost the

second set and was a breakdown before rattling off a dozen games

in a rope to clinch victory. Azarenka will have to play six days

in a road to reach the gold medal match and only the gold will be

good enough to keep her in the world number one spot. There is an

interesting quote from Rafael Nadal before this tournament started, he

is not here because of injury. He says as a tennis player it is all

about the Grand Slams. As an athlete it is all about competing

in the Olympics. That is quite a strong argument for sport being in

the Olympics that some people say there should not be? It is a good

argument. When Nadal had to pull out he said it was one of the worst

moments of his career. But I understand what he is saying. I

still cannot get particularly interested in it. I think for me,

it comes back to the argument that it should be the pinnacle of the

Sport and in tennis it is not. There are four pinnacles throughout

the season. I am not interested in who wins a Olympic gold as who wins

Wimbledon or the US Open or Roland Garros. The same thing will apply

to golf when it comes in in 2016. And footballers another sport which

has criticised for that. One question coming in says there has

been great work done on women's side in the Olympics, do you think

that good work will be carried dine terms of coverage, funding and

people taking up the game in this country? I hope so. I went to the

opening game on Wednesday, Team GB's game against New Zealand. I

thoroughly enjoyed it. I say even for someone like me, it was very

educational. I enjoyed the GB game but I stayed behind to watch Brazil

afterwards. Some of the stuff from Brazil was fantastic. I know this

is very basic but I paid to watch it, I would pay to watch Brazil pay.

People say you would not pay to watch women's football but I

certainly would. There was excellent skill in football. The

exposure of the women's game is getting his only a good thing.

motto of inspiring a generation, but when there are so many people

watching, a ten-point 10 million people watching Rebecca Adlington

last night and her other great achievement by British athletes,

they might try backhander rowing or football, whatever it may be.

is absolutely true. You have only got to look at the explosion of

interest in cycling in this country since Beijing, since Cavendish,

Bradley Wiggins, Sir Chris Hoy, the effect that has had on the sporting

culture in this country. It has had a massive effect. Maybe the same

will happen for women's football. You mention cycling and I mentioned

rowing and Great Britain's strong support have been cycling, rowing

and sailing. We will see shortly the Legion of rowing talent. What

about the sailing? Ben Ainslie's bid for a 4th Olympic title has

suffered a setback after a poor finish in Weymouth today. After a

sluggish start the first race of the day won by New Zealand Dan

Slater. Christiansen finish second to start the day in sailed straight

into the starter boat and incur penalty turns but failed to take

advantage of that one. The Dane recovered and to retain his lead,

the British sailor came in 12 in the end. Ainslie has gone to the

bronze medal position behind Christiansen and Jonathan Lobert of

France. Nobody said the path to gold was easy? Not a good day. It

was frustrating, especially the second race. It was difficult. I

will have to pick up my game for the rest of the week. Any problems

with Rita? She is fine. It is not the boat, it is the person selling

it. I did not have a very good day. By did not sail very well.

Disappointed with that but still a long way to go. I will have to pick

up and say a lot better than I did today if I am going to do well.

were you feeling the pressure from Christiansen in the last dregs of

the day because he has put down another big market today.

really. He is selling well. He made a big mistake in the beginning of

the second race. I was just trying to do my best really. It was very

difficult conditions out there. For one reason or another, I really

struggled to pick the breeze and the right way up the course. It was

frustrating. Still plenty of time for Ainslie. Much better for Andrew

Percy and Ian Simpson. They had a good day and finished in the top

three for three successive races. Now time to head down to Eton

Dorney, the course built by the College of the same name and

donated to the Olympics. We will start some round-up of other good

news. After three silver medals in a row,

Katherine Grainger is looking good in the double sculls along with

partner Anna Watkins. They had a new Olympic best time. They broke

the mark set by Germany 20 years ago by five seconds. They really

have put down an impressive marker for the final of Friday. The

flagship boat in the men's four and with good reason. They finished top

at the last Olympics. They clearly one bad run not come to an end,

they won that easily. They will have to keep an eye on the

Australian challenge. They set a new Australian record in their heat

today. An encouraging performance from the men's eight as well. They

are through to the final after winning the repechage which

contained a number of strong crews including the defending champions,

Canada. We have got the first British success in archery today.

Larry Godfrey put the disappointment of a first-round

exit in a team event behind him and he was in sensational form. He

celebrated in suitable style. We will see some of his glorious

cricket strokes. Not quite majestic A grudge match in the hockey

between Britain and Argentina. The final score in that one 4-1 to Team

GB. Not a bad day for the businessman's -- women's tennis

court. Heather Watson also won in straight sets. But its all over for

Elena Baltacha. She lost today. We continued, Lizzie Neave could win a

medal in the canoe slalom. She surprised everyone by ending the

day in second place. She will hope to carry that through to Thursday's

semi-finals. In the two Manca knew, the British pair made it through to

the semis. An 18-year-old weightlifter, sewy Smith finished

12th. But set a new British clean and jerk railroad. -- record. After

that effort she was delighted. Right now, I am kind of feeling a

bit of everything. There was disappointment, because the snatch

phase did not go how I wanted to. But you have to deal with these

things. The clean and jerk could have gone better. But all in all, I

came here and to do what I did. So yeah, it is fantastic. You have got

fantastic support from the crowd. What was that like? I tried for

months to prepare myself for the reception I was going to get. I

couldn't even get close in my head. Even now I struggle to take it in.

The most people I have competed in front of of us a couple of hundred.

That is how small weightlifting is as a sport. But to come to an

Olympics and have a crowd of 6,000 cheering my actual name! That was

beyond belief! When we spoke a couple of days ago you said you

were going to make the A group for Rio and would go for a medal. Are

you inspired now? Yes nothing's changed. I was second in the B

group today. That is essentially sort of the a couple of places from

the A group. But I don't want to be at the bottom of A group. I want to

be at the top and on the podium. One more bit of good news, the

Britain's volleyball team have beaten Algeria. Weightlifting is

almost a sport in its purest form. There is a big thing on the floor

and who can lift the most. She is an impressive character and she's,

I think she's looking to Brazil in 2016 and she is going to be a medal

hope and she will be a trail blazer for women's weightlifting. An

impressive character and it is one of those wonderful things about the

Olympics, the weightlifting, it is something we never get interested

in, apart from the Olympics. But there is a a real fascination.

sports come around and are in the spot light. People have talked

about pressure and Ben ainsly is saying people expect me to win

another gold, but he said the competition is harder this year and

we're seeing that. He is one who may not win a gold. Yes it is a

fascinating issue, the issue of pressure and a home Olympics. We

assumed before the games that the fact of home support would give

everyone a boost and all the team from Britain a boost. It may do

that. But we're seeing a lot of people talking about the add

pressure as well. So it is a double edged sword. If you visit the Old

Royal Naval College in London, it is worth a few hours of your time.

It forms part of backdrop to the equestrian events. Thing have been

hotting up in the cross count - o' country phase. There was a huge

crowd for the second stage of eventing. Not all locals were

pleased that Greenwich Park had been turned into an arena. Usually

been turned into an arena. Usually the sport is outside of town. Mary

King has dealt with every obstacle and finished in sixth. Many others

fell and there was 15 eliminations. So frequent delays. Frustrating for

those who had come to watch a familiar member and eyes turned to

Zara Phillips. Twice she had missed the Olympics, because of injury to

her horse. But riders don't just compete for themselves, there are

team medals too. Let's look at the clock. That motivation drove Zara

Phillips to perfection. The object was to clear all the fences within

the time. Few made it, but Zara Phillips made it. She is going to

be inside. She jumps it and she has. You can't hear your watch baeping.

It is unbelievable and hopefully we take - didn't take any heads off

cutting the corner. They're not cutting the corner. They're not

quite over the moon yet, but close. Glorious sunshine and 50,000 people

watching the equestrian events and all the people spoke of the effect

of the crowd. It was evident there. I will go there tomorrow and I'm

looking forward to it. As the report said, one of the great

venues in term of views of London, a very iconic venue. So fantastic.

I hesitate to bang on about the seats issue. But being at the pool

again today. It has been an issue. A lot of empty seats and prime

seats. It is frustrating for us, we're such a fantastic supporting

supporting nation. To see the empty seat and know how many people would

love to be in the seats. Even at one of the prime events for Britain

and for British fans. To see empty seats there. That is part of

problem, the organisers are trying to sort it out, but people get

annoyed, because they would love to be there and Fay money and sample

the atmosphere. Here is the rest of the news. Here is the stuff that

done it go to plan. Paul drink erlers run in the table --

drinkel's run in the table tennis is over. He was beaten by the

German competitor. Britain's only competitor in the fencing lost to

the European champion. Not a single fencer from the host nation has

reached the last 16. Another disappointing day for the British

Judo team. Sarah Clarke and Danny will yaps both suffered defeats. --

Danny Williams. He is fighting well here. Oh it's... And just as we

were turning on the lights for Danny Williams, his opponent turn

them out. Oh Danny, Danny lips team GB's volleyball were beaten by

Brazil in straight sets. That is two defeats in two. Britain's

women's hand ball coach was annoyed after his team were beaten by

Russia. We had a few players who weren't up to speed, he said. That

followed a defeat. Heartbreak for GB's women's basketball team, they

were denied by Canada. They led with minutes to go, but the

Canadians won in the end. And a defeat for the women's water polo

team in their first ever Olympic match. They were sunk by a late

goal from Russia. This is the Olympics and we're the host nation.

So there is an opportunity to be representing in some of the sports

that usually we wouldn't qualify for. So there is that chance to

play in that and that potential for embarrassment. Yes and there is the

issue of the plastic Brits, some of the those minor sports people have

been drafted in. Or that is the allegation. That is also an issue.

I think it can only be a good thing and that as long as it is not

embarrassing, it comes back to what we talk about before and giving the

sports some oxygen and some publicity and letting people see

them. I wipbt to watch the water polo the other way and -- day and

for Spain against Kazakhstan, the arena was full. It shows what

interest there is in other sports. If people get some familiarty with

these sports will help them. will watch any tort -- sport at

time. Now the papers that will be out later. We start with the back

page of your paper. Gym'll fix it, G B-Boys celebrate. And fantastic

gymnastic. And Waterfield sorry for messy dive. And the Daily Star, GB

medal storm and a story about Rio - - Reo race charge. And a story

about Manchester City bonuses. In the Times Britain's gym class

ensure team, sorry dream becomes reality. There is a mix of stories,

most people have gone for the gymnastic and Tom Daley and Pete

Waterfield. I'm not sure we want to know much about Manchester City's

bonus scheme. The gymnastic story is fantastic. It is the obvious

lead and it is an underdog story. Some people will say maybe we are

clutching at straws and we're lionising bronze medallists, but it

is a fantastic achievement that they have done. Coming from nowhere

and it is a matter 06 time until we start winning golds. Dave says, do

you think coaches should take the step of banning Twitter. Reo Rio

Ferdinand fanned is in trouble. Should coaches step in. No, it

should be something, we're both on Twitter. As a journalist it is an

interesting source material and a way of fans connecting with players.

And I think where it will get interesting is if Rio Ferdinand

Ferris banned say for a couple of games and I don't want the pre-

judge what will happen, if he is band, will Alex Ferguson say this

is starting to impact the team. wupbl final one, what will it - one

final one, what will it take for this to be remembered as a great

Olympics? I think it needs some stand out performances and it needs

some degree of home success. Beijing will be remember ford

Phelps and maybe not sure we will have that kind of dominant athlete.

But at the opening we established a feel good factor immediately and

there was a thing where everyone walked out on air. We have had a

slow beginning. But it will take off. We need some superstars. That

is it for tonight. We are back tofrplt thank you for your time and

to Oliver or the answering your questions. And we will have you

back. Loads to look forward to on day four. They're about to turn out

the light here. So another day without a British gold, but it was