15/08/2016 Olympic Sportsday

Hello, I'm Olly Foster, these are our Olympic Sportsday headlines.

Back in the golden groove, Dujardin tops the podium again

with another virtuoso routine with Valegro.

Going hammer and bronze - Hitchon gets a medal

Will it be the joy of six for Mark Cavendish?

He's well placed with two races to go in the omnium.

A big surprise in the boxing as one of Ireland's biggest

stars, the Olympic champ Katie Taylor, is beaten.

Evening, we are into the last week of competition at the games.

It was a frantic middle weekend in Rio de Janeiro with 8 golds

for Team GB to pull themselves up to second in the medal table.

It will be asking a lot for them to stay there but they are on course

for a record haul at an overseas Olympics.

Today's she retained her individual Olympic title.

Another games, another golden moment in the theatre of dressage, one

British Olympian is a superstar. They have been the stars of the

sport worldwide since London 2012, other going to stay there? The

dancing horses may not pull the crowds but for Charlotte Dujardin

this sport is a sensation. In Rio, she raised the bar again. To the

sounds of the carnival, the Britain and her horse Valegro in perfect

harmony. She strives for perfection and she delivered. We've seen it,

you're going to see it in a moment! 93.928! Now they've got to go. Can

they ever take that away? There were four riders still to perform, but

most here knew they would never get close. When Germany's Isabell Werth

finished with a silver medal winning score, it was confirmed. I'm

actually a little bit speechless for once in my life. It means the

absolute world to me to come out there and finish off being

individual gold medallist. Trying to repeat what I had in London. I had

no expectation and pressure to go out there, today, I felt a lot of

pressure and expectation and the mean, it could be one of the last

rides on Valegro. There is talk of retirement for him so funny to

finish it in this way, it is a really emotional time. -- for me to

finish it. With this she becomes the first British woman to retain an

individual Olympic title. In dressage they come to expect her

dominance, now Charlotte Dujardin is among the Olympic greats.

Let's cross to the Olympic Park and speak to our correspondent.

There's that Monday feeling that follows a heavy weekend, that medal

overload for Great Britain, and nothing like another medal

It is certainly not raining medals for Team GB as it was yesterday in

what will become known for ever more as Super Sunday, but yes, Sophie

Hitchon has given Team GB and unexpected bronze in the hammer. It

looked as though she would finish without a medal until her very last

row and then there's 74.54 metres. A British record and Team GB's first

ever Olympic hammer medal. Unbelievable stuff from the

25-year-old from Burnley and this was her reaction afterwards.

I've said, training has been going really well.

The distance wasn't really expected but to get a bronze medal,

You set the tone with a really big throw, getting in

Were you thinking it could be your day?

The girls were all throwing really well.

They can always produce their best in the last round.

I didn't expect that would hold third.

I just knew that I wanted to throw further and executed my technique.

I missed it on a few, but I knew it was going to go if I just

A lot of the British medals have been firsts.

British woman to three golds, Max Whitlock making history

in gymnastics and let's just look back at Andy Murray late last night,

a raucous atmosphere at the tennis centre, as he became the first man

Perhaps this one was expected. I was in the tennis centre last night. It

was exhausting just watching him against his opponents del Potro.

There was plenty from Argentina inside the arena last night and the

Brazilians, who we know have a big rivalry with Argentina, where all

behind Andy Murray. 3-1 in sets to Andy Murray. He adores the Olympic

Games, he was so emotional afterwards. What a year it has been

for the world's number two. Second Wimbledon title and successfully

defending his Olympic title here as well. The tears always flow from

Andy Murray when we get these big wins from here. Fabulous form from

him. This was his reaction after that.

Four hours or so and a lot of ups and downs as

Yeah, it's been a great few months for me, I'm very happy with

how my tennis is going, obviously, and I'm proud to have won another

I just about managed to stay up for Andy Murray's match-point last

match-point last night, but couldn't make it

The treble-treble is still on for Usian Bolt.

Usain Bolt is quite simply box office. Not a seat to be had in the

Olympic Stadium here in Rio last night and the fastest man on the

planet did not disappoint. He usually starts slowly, he did last

night that after about four seconds, he was never in doubt. No world

record, but what a performance once again from Usain Bolt. The crowd

absolutely loved him. He breezed across the line and the treble

treble very much on. He lights up track and field. Also last night,

one man he was in danger of healing is thunder was the South African

Wayde van Niekerk. He smashed the 400 metre record. A record, Michael

Johnson's record that has stood since 1999. 43.03 four Wayde van

Niekerk. Unbelievable run from them and this was Michael Johnson's

reaction to his record going. It was great to see, as a fan of sport, you

want to see this sort of thing. You never know how long record is going

to last. It could last another 1920 years, that it could be broken next

year. It could be broken again by him. That is what makes it so

special. It is always a joy and a surprise to see a world record

broken and these championships, this atmosphere needed it. To get people

going, we saw the first day the 10,000 metre record, and tonight, I

said this was going to outshine the 100 metres. I think it has.

In a weeks time, Rio will start gearing up for the Paralympics that

starts on 7th September, but we're hearing that

many of the competing nations might struggle to get their athletes

This is something that started off as a concerned that has quickly

edged towards a crisis. The organising committee gathered cash

from sponsorship and ticket sales, they give the cash to the Paralympic

committee, they then castigate that cash to their members across the

world, 160 nations will be here for the beginning of the games, but they

don't have the money. The Olympic Committee here, Rio 2016 committee,

do not have the money as it stands. They can't get the money to the

committees and for that reason around 50 countries have intimated

they may not be able to travel here unless they get that cash. The

government may well step in. We spoke to the organisers today. They

say they are working hard but at the moment this is edging from a concern

to a crisis. Fingers crossed they sort everything out. For now, thanks

for now. Let's head to the velodrome,

because Mark Cavendish is still in the bronze medal

position in the omnium with two out He was lying in third overnight

and in the first event of the day, the kilo time trial,

Cavendish posted the With the flying lap and the points

race still to come later this evening the Manx Missile is now

level with Thomas Boudat of France. They are 14 points behind

the leader, Italy's Elia Viviani. He told the BBC's Jill Douglas

and Sir Chris Hoy it will all come There are five or six

guys who can win this. I should have gone

in a straight line. People think it is

Jack of all trades. It is not heptathlon,

it is modern pentathlon style. You do your first five events

and then it is handicap points. Laura Trott has made an excellent

start in her omnium as she goes She was second in the first

event, the points race - Trott was actually first

across the line but Tatsiana Sharakova of Belarus had gained

a lap on the field earlier in the race so she leads

Trott by two points. Their next race, the individual

pursuit, is at 8.30 UK time. Britain's Becky James

and Katy Marchant are into the quarter-finals in the individual

sprint - both had an easy draw after qualifying

first and second fastest. James beat France's Virginie Cueff

to reach the last 8. She's already broken

Vicky Pendleton's Olympic record in qualifying,

annd won a silver medal Katy Marchant beat Germany's

Miriam Welte to also reach on in the race, but had enough speed

to come back and win it The quarter-finals start tomorrow

at two o'clock UK time. To the boxing and Team GB's

Mohammad Ali has lost his flyweight was beaten in a unanimous decision

by the Venezuelan Yoel Finol - he's ranked twelfth

in the world and goes This was Ali's first fight

at an Olympic Games but it I thought I was up after the first

and I heard I was down. All the hard work I've put in just

gone to waste. Big upset in the women's boxing,

Ireland's olympic lightweight The five-time world-champion

beaten in a split decision after a very even fight

against Finland's Mira Potkonen Keri-Anne Payne was trying to get

back on the podium in the marathon open water swimming,

it's actually 10 kilometres. She took silver in Beijing,

was fourth in London but was seventh in the waters off

Copacabana this afternoon. Let's head there now

and speak to Julia Carneiro. Julia, they had to slightly

change their plans at the start because the pontoon

they were supposed to dive off, Yes, exactly. That was last week

because of the heavy waves. The pontoon got damaged and there wasn't

enough time to rebuild it. I'll just show you where the circuit was. If

you look at the sand, that is where the swimmers had to start the race.

They then had to swim for around 300 metres and reach the circuit which

was close to the boats in the background and went backwards and

forwards towards Sugarloaf and quite scenic marathon. You may remember

this view from the World Cup. There was some controversy. We are keeping

our eye out for Keri-Anne Payne, that she was a long way off the

pace. Yes, she had had a frustrating result in London, coming forth and

missing out on a medal. Now she had said she had prepared very well for

this time. She seemed to be very confident, she said she had prepared

for very adverse conditions but it seems the conditions here did not

work for her. It wasn't my kind of conditions for me today. The top

girls, the girl but one, they are really good flat swimmers and the

World Championships was glass. The last two days this has been really

wavy and today we arrived and there's been absolutely no wind or

waves. Those girls are world-class and that is what the Olympics is all

about. The Dutch woman came out on top by quite a long way. Yes, 16

seconds ahead of the others that it was quite a dramatic finish because

one of the winners ended up being stripped of her title.

France's Aurelie Muller has her silver medal taken away

after replays show she effectively grappled Italy's Rachele Bruni out

of the way in a desperately close finish.

The Italians swimmer was then moved into silver. And a Brazilian swimmer

and then got bronze which was of course very celebrated here.

The first ever medal for aquatic marathon on here in Brazil.

Let's just break away from the Olympics for a moment

and give you some of the other headlines closer to home.

Everton have signed Yannick Bolasie

The Congo international spent four seasons with Palace

He played 143 times for Palace scoring 13 goals -

including this in last season's FA Cup semi-final

He came on as a substitute in Saturday's 1-0 defeat by West Brom.

Bolasie says the move to Merseyside is a "no-brainer".

Chelsea and West Ham get their season's underway

New signings Michy Batshuayi and N'Golo Kante should

make their Chelsea debuts in what will be Antonio Conte's

It is the first time for me and to start with a derby is a bit tough

and I am excited. It is important that my players must be the right

willing. Willing to start in the right way because it is important to

start in the right way, to take confident,.

Tough game, big game, a great manager. He is one of them who wants

to put his stamp on the team. He wants not just to continue what the

previous manager or managers have done. He wants to change the way

they approach the game, change the principles, change the nature of the

game. He is one of them. That is why he is so high.

Tributes have been paid today to Dalian Atkinson,

the former Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa

striker who died after being hit by a police taser in the early

This goal against Wimbledon in '92 was the Match of the Day's

first premier League goal of the season.

His former manager Ron Atkinson said he always played

Dozens of teamates have taken to social media

Back to Rio now and let's have a quick look round some

Great news for Team GB in the badminton doubles.

Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis, ranked

22nd in the world, are through to the semi-finals.

They beat the world number 8 pair, Japan's Hiroyuki Endo

That makes them the first Britons to reach the last four

since Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms in Athens in 2004.

They'll face China's Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan on Tuesday.

Team GB's Rajiv Ouseph is due to play his last-16 singles match

British pair Katie Clark and Olivia Federici were eliminated

from the synchronised swimming duets after the preliminary stage.

The British pair needed to be in the top 12

following the technical routine but the pair finished in 17th.

Great Britain's Jess Walker finished fourth in her semi-final

of the Women's 200 metre single kayak, that's not good

Lani Belcher and Angela Hannah finished seventh in the semi-final

Yesterday's brilliant performance by Team GB saw Britain rocket

It was helped by two golds within an hour

In between, Justin Rose won the golf tournament.

The pair have been reflecting on their achievements today -

first here's Whitlock talking with our sports correspondent

I'm still speechless. Therein in what to say. It was a crazy day.

It's been a lot of hard work and you don't get long to show how long

you've been working on something. You get about one minute. I managed

to pull it out on boat. It's been incredible and we can walk away

feeling over the moon. I trained as hard as I possibly could to compete

with the world's best and I go in with confidence that I've done a

good build-up and I was happy. If I'd done that, I can't ask for any

more. It has paid off massively. I've got a lot of people to come --

going see here. Hopefully I get to see the country a bit. Got about a

week here which is really nice. I can't wait to get home. Celebrate

with everyone, go and see my club, South Essex, and see my family

again. Enjoy the moment. I'm taking a bit of a rest but I'm looking

forward to having a few holidays and then getting stuck back in again. I

can't wait. The importance of it was huge for

me. It's been a target of mine for a long time. Given the slightly slow

summer that I've heard, it's been something that's been on the horizon

for me for quite awhile. It's been a focal point and for everything to

come together for me yesterday was incredibly exciting. The Olympic

experience as a whole has exceeded all of my expectations. It has been

just so wonderful and so many different levels. The camaraderie

among the players has been incredible, I've really enjoyed

getting to share and swap stories with other athletes on Team GB.

Learning a bit more about other sports. Identifying what makes them

great and trying to pull a little bit of that into my own sport.

Hearing comments from guys who weren't really in contention for

being on the podium talking positively about this being one of

the best golfing weeks of their lives, says it all. It's easy to sit

here with a gold medal and say it's been an incredible experience but

for me, it was deeper than just the guys who have had finished on the

podium. Justin Rose with the first golf gold in 100 years.

Let's look at how things stand in the medal table.

They were third at the medal table in London but they are looking to

get more than 48 than they did in Beijing. There is still another week

of competition to break the overseas record but it could be something

very, special indeed. The United States streets ahead. China have got

lots more chances coming up in the next week, but Great Britain,

doesn't that look very pretty indeed? One more week to go off

competition in Rio. Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro,

Olympic champions once again. From all of us, goodbye for now.

Charlotte Dujardin, Valegro, Great Britain.

ladies and gentlemen, the Olympic medallists.

Wonderful stuff. What's not to like about Monday? Beautiful blue skies

across much of the country. You will possibly get it tomorrow.