Day 2 BBC One: 23.15-00.00 Olympics

Good evening and welcome to a round-up of some of what has been

going on so far on the second day of the Rio Olympics. We will be heading

to live action wherever we can but tonight is the big night because

over there in the Aquatic Centre, Adam Peaty is going to be trying to

win a gold medal in the pool, the first British man to do so since

Adrian Moorhouse in 1988. He goes at 2:53am your time in the 100 metres

breaststroke, stay up for it, it's going to be a magic moment. Let's

tell you what is coming up tonight. Very soon, we will be rounding up

what happened in the women's road race, Team GB's Lizzie Armitstead

aiming to get the headlines for the right reasons in this one.

We will be showing you Joshua Buatsi, the latest boxing Britain in

action in the Rio ring. And we catch up with Britain's

formidable tennis team, our flag bearer was in action today, and they

are in search of Rio gold again. In foil fencing, we will see how

Richard Kruse got on in his bid for glory.

And coming into these games, there are high hopes for the British team

in gymnastics. They were in qualification action today.

And down in the Olympic park, I'm going to be joined by experts like

Beth Tweddle and also Leon Taylor, who will be looking at the diving

and I'm hoping to meet Adam Peaty's mother and his whole family and they

will be talking to me before the end of the programme. Over at Copacabana

beach, just relaxing with a little sand and sea behind him, that is

where we find Mark Chapman. Thank you very much, Claire. Most

nights, this is going to be my base, and the GB medallists that we will

hopefully get over the coming days will come down here for a chat. As

you can see, Chris Boardman will be one of my guests this evening, and

the beauty of the beach is that whether it is 6am or 10pm, there are

people doing sport on the beach, it is a sport mad beach. Just over my

shoulder, the Copacabana Ford which is why Chris is here because the

women's Road race finished just adjacent to the fought a little

earlier and it was watched by Chris, Katherine Downes and Simon

Brotherton. Lizzie Armitstead said that either

way, she did when. A number of people at home and elsewhere hope

she wouldn't. One of her rivals the goals before today's race even said

her inclusion on the start line was shameful. It's not fair that she can

race and other riders in France cannot. The rules have to be the

same for everyone. There's a lot of tension in the peloton amongst the

athletes about the three missed tests because these athletes have to

be on top of the whereabouts and I just think they feel that Lizzie

being in the position she is, at the top of the sport and a role model,

that is one responsibility she should have taken. Some have given

her the benefit of the doubt. Others not. But that word, doubt, runs

through the whole story. Would gold for Lizzie Armitstead forever be

tarnished by those three missed tests? I don't think it will be

completely hollow for her because there will be a lot of pride in

winning the Olympic title amongst her family and friends and herself

and knowing how hard she's worked for the title. But there will be a

strange feeling around a gold medal won by Lizzie today. But first, 136

kilometres to cover, including a time of Vista Chinesa, the descent

of which accounted for Geraint Thomas yesterday. -- a descent. It

would be surprising to see Lizzie Armitstead have her best race after

what she's been through in the last couple of weeks. It has taken so

much mental energy and physically, that is so draining as well. You

can't hide from that. COMMENTATOR: Lizzie Armitstead on

the start line alongside Emma Pooley and Nikki Harris. The defending

champion, Marianne Vos, on the front row of the grid as they prepared to

lead. With eight, "Go, Lizzie" sign being waved in the background, Great

Britain and the other 65 riders in the race leave Coaker the gap --

Copacabana behind. Lizzie Armitstead stopping at the side of the road

very early for what looks like a quick bite change. Emma Pooley,

having a little dig. Armitstead clearly had some god of mechanical

but she is making her way back now and clearly, Emma Pooley is unaware.

Not an ideal start to the race for Lizzie Armitstead. At the front, the

race is well and truly on now. It is really splitting up the field,

already, they are not even on the coastal road yet. Armitstead,

bouncing between vehicles, getting shelter, moving her way forward.

Nikki Harris, getting a ticking off from the team leader, saying, "I

could have done with your help, there". We have an attack from one

of the Belgian riders, Lotte Kopecky, making the first big move

of the day. Why are we only seeing motorbike

shots? We are being advised that due to the windy conditions, the

helicopters are not flying at the moment. You can see the warning flag

being waved, there. This is why. Awful lot of mechanicals on here for

the men yesterday. Lotte Kopecky hits the stones and a bottle bounces

off. That did not take long, did it? The front of the peloton is really

starting to break up. This looks like Ellen van Dijk from the

Netherlands at the front. That is a great shot, so clearly the wind has

eased enough to let the helicopters get back in the air. Now the fun

starts once more. Well, they very much have Lotte Kopecky in their

sights now, don't they? And also the peloton, you can see them at the

back of the picture, and Armitstead is the second rider with the orange

helmet on. The chasing group, closing in. There we go, we now have

a group of six, I'm not sure how long it is going to last, though.

Lotte Kopecky suddenly looks like she's riding through concrete. The

peloton is right on their heels anyway, it will be over in seconds

for this group. Suddenly, we are all back together.

Lizzie Armitstead, over on the far side, going across your picture.

The run-in towards Rio starts here and be run-in towards the circuit of

Vista Chinesa. Quite exposed down there, that road. And another attack

from Germany, looks like Trixi Worrack, one of the more experienced

riders in the women's peloton. And at last they start to work together

and they have surprisingly been given some leeway, here. That gives

you a better view of the kind of advantage they have got, here. It is

pretty significant. The fundamental fact is the peloton have to be

riding hard, immediately, if they want to get back into this race.

This is the steepest bit of the second section and she is making

every bit of it count. I think this is Van der Gugten who is making the

attack at the moment. Just starting to ease of a bid for the riders. --

anomie vandalism. But their concentration levels will have to

stay at 100% when they go over the top of the climate Vista Chinesa. --

climb at. Anomie vandalism, the leader from the Netherlands. There's

enough of a gap to put a motorbike in so it must be quite significant.

Oh, and Aniek Van Koot and is down! It's bad. It is a nasty, nasty crash

for anomie Van der Gugten. Well, they are getting close,

tantalisingly close but it is still a handful of seconds between them.

Here is the leader, Abbott, I wonder what is going through her mind at

the moment. It is so close but Mara Abbott I think is going to have the

gold medal swiped away. Bordini leads the other -- Elisa Longo

Borghini leads the other two up alongside and Emma Johansson has not

got the strength at the moment to come past Anna van der Breggen, who

takes the gold. Silver for Sweden and Emma Johansson. Longo Borghini

take the bronze for Italy and Lizzie Armitstead fifth over the line. I

knew what I was capable of and what I had the legs and did as best I

could. I'm just knackered! It started after I saw Van Vleuten and

I was pretty shocked because I think she crashed hard. We did not see of

course. And then I realised I'm the first one in the team so I have DJs.

I did it -- have two J. I did it also for her and we knew we had to

do it. Mara Abbott good tight head is appointment and this place will

Lizzie Armitstead means she's no longer the centre of attention. The

cameras on the new Olympic champion, Anna van der Breggen although the of

most people are with her team-mate, Annemiek Van Vleuten.

They are with her and the idea is to celebrate the show and the sport we

have seen over the course of the day but impossible to do to because it

was a horrific accident. Yes, we previewed the cause and have a look

and I felt the sting the uncomfortable when we looked at the

descent. I have to say, it is probably the best Olympic road

course I've ever seen, a bit of everything and even the final

descent was fantastic, very technical, just a few kilometres to

go, it was going to play a part but when there's a gold medal at stake,

riders will push to the edge of the envelope and some of them although

slightly over. The consequences for doing that should not be... Without

being melodramatic, potential death. But the course design, rather, the

way that they have managed the route, we had some serious

obstacles. It is the side of the road you have the problem with,

here. The drop and then the concrete banking. Yes, there were concrete

edges and frankly immovable objects, trees. They had not all been masked

off. If someone did crash, it was almost certainly going to be

serious. The latest we have on Annemiek Van Vleuten is that she has

three small fractures in her back and is in intensive care with severe

concussion. You could see it in Anna van der Breggen, how she reacted at

the end. It has overshadowed her gold medal, what has happened to her

compatriot. Yes, I'm sure she is breathing a sigh of relief because

it looks like, although it is very serious and she is in intensive care

at the moment, we believe, it is going to be OK. But it is more luck

than anything else. Yesterday, in the men's race, we saw Vincenzo

Nibali break two collarbones and Richie Porte broke his shoulder

blade. Anyone who falls off on that descent was having a serious injury

because it was the adopt the road, it had not been carefully managed.

Weasel crashes with bikes and vehicles in the Tour de France as

well. Is it going overboard to suggest that cycling needs to look

at safety? Not at all, crashes are part of the sport. Those things are

natural hazards and you have, you manage them as best you can. In the

Parry rebate, they ride over cobbles and be collarbones are broken. --

Paris regrets. But somebody sign of a course, looked at the edge of the

road and said that's OK and Frankie, it was wrong. What would you say

about Lizzie Armitstead's race? I thought she did very well,

everything she could do, got into the right position, her team helped

get there, she got to the bottom of the climb and it was physical and

you should -- could see she was measuring her effort, thinking she

was trying to stay in touch and it is incredible she got back up to

fifth place, the best she could have hoped for today. Thank you very

much, a sombre mood on Copacabana because of the injury to Annemiek

Van Vleuten. Yes, but very good news that

hopefully in time she will recover. The big news not in terms of

sporting action but in terms of sports news is that the IPCC -- IBC,

the International Paralympic Committee, has decided to ban Russia

in its entirety from the Paralympics which start in Rio on the 7th of

September. The president, Sir Philip Craven was very strong in his views

and words, saying, "This is not about athletes cheating the system

but the state-run system that is cheating athletes. I believe the

Russian government has catastrophically failed the

athletes. The medals over morals mentality disgusts me". Russia are

completely out of the Paralympics in September. These are the other

headlines from the Olympics. Catherine Skinner won the Olympic

trap shooting title to leave Australia sitting pretty at the top

of the medals table, with three gold medals and counting.

wasted no time in getting on the medals table.

South Korea's women win gold medals for fun in artery. In archery.

Ten months after being placed into an induced coma following a fall and

serious brain injury, William Fox-Pitt leads the individual

eventing standings after two days of dressage, he and Chilli Morning out

in front. He and Team GB are sitting fourth overall. Cross-country to

come tomorrow. Great Britain have two men in the

third round of the men's singles in table tennis, Liam Pitchford and

Paul Drinkhall both celebrated victories today.

Now, Great Britain has an exciting gymnastics team here for the women,

Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold and Aimee Tinkler and Becky and Ellie

Downie. They were on the mats today in terms of qualification.

COMMENTATOR: Welcome to the Olympic Arena for the third subdivision of

women's gymnastics. The host nation, Brazil, performing, along with Great

Britain. Full twisting double back, great routine. Original work from

Ruby. Started with a good bar routine, Eilidh. Really powerful

gymnast. That was a very solid performance. We have seen her

younger sister, Becky Downie. That will be very disappointing for

Becky. We have had some good performances before. Up on floor,

Ruby Harrold. One of the leaders of the GB team. Very clean into the

spin. Great start for Great Britain. That's the way you do it. Lovely hat

on these leaks, lovely triple twist. This is a big final tumble, come on

Claudia. Double straight somersaults, she made it. What a

show. Well done, Claudia Fragapane. My legs just kind of buckled and I

did land on my neck and I did hear it crunch a bit. They offered me a

wheelchair and I was like, no, get me back on the vault! Aimee Tinkler

comes to fault. A solid vault from Tinkler. Ellie

Downie is going to vault for the team. Come on, Ellie. Double twist.

Might be the best we have seen so far. She is a very special vaulter.

Who is to say we can't get an Olympic medal? We did get a couple

of mistakes, but the team is what we came here for and hopefully we will

make the team final. We will get another opportunity to compete. That

is the main thing, just enjoying the Olympics.

There is only one woman in the whole of Britain who knows what it is like

to win an Olympic medal, that is Beth Tweddle, alongside

the team qualified, but it was a dangerous looking day. Yes, it was

mixed emotions for the team. Claudia Fragapane had a bit of a four on

bars but then the routines went well. Unfortunately, Rebecca Downie

caught her heels on the bars that has knocked out of the uneven bars

final that we were hoping for. On the beam, they went solid until

Fragapane had 14. Rebecca Downie also had a fall. But Ellie and Amy

are still in the mix for a beam final. Floor, unfortunately, as you

saw, Ellie had a nasty fall, which she had to stop her routine halfway

through. But the medical team were with her straightaway. They took her

out of the arena and assessed her. You can see, she landed and her legs

just buckled. Luckily, she is spatially aware enough to get her

head. The coach was with her straightaway, Colin, and we have our

own medical team as well. Amazingly, she comes straight back out for the

vault! Yes, suddenly, at the end of the warm-up, she appeared at the end

of the vault run and did her vault. So the medical team had obviously

cleared her to go. And she did a fantastic vault. Will she be sitting

in ice bath right now? I am sure she will and the medical team will be

assessing her. She has the all-round team final and she still in the mix

for that beam final. So we will keep an eye on her. Overall, what would

you give them as a score if you were a judge? A mixed day. We got our

first chance to see Simone Biles, the star of the show for the USA.

What did you make of her? She is normally a league above everyone

else, but today she took it a notch higher. The floor routine, she

scored 15.7, five tenths higher than anyone else. Then on the vault, she

scored a 16, which you just don't see in women's gymnastics. There is

literally nothing to deduct from that. I had seen her beam routine

before I came here, and she just didn't move. So she has had a great

day at the office. Team USA are about ten marks ahead of everyone

else. What about the men's? Their team final is tomorrow. Tomorrow

night. I believe the boys are starting on the rings and finishing

on the pommel. It will be an exciting night of gymnastics. Every

routine counts. That will be at 6.30 your time, tomorrow. Thanks for

joining us. We turn our attention now to the sport fencing. Do you

know anything about it? We had three fences here in action. One of them,

Richard Kruse, competing at his fourth Olympics, got himself into

medal contention. This is his story. With 22 events on today, there was

plenty of action around Rio, especially here in the Carioca Arena

2. The man of the moment was the Londoner Richard Kruse, who enjoyed

a fantastic afternoon. The four-time Olympian was up against Algerian

Hamid Ezzine the first round, coming through with a confident when. That

was all Richard Kruse needed. Couldn't do it in 2012, but here he

goes through. Next, he faced the Italian. This was a much harder

challenge and resulted in a very tight encounter. Kruse eventually

prevailed. Richard Kruse is through to the quarterfinals and has seen

off a formidable appointment. Next up, a former world number one. This

was an edgy contest, but Kruse dug deep and went ahead. Richard Kruse

razed to the ground, punches the air. He is an Olympic semifinalist

and this could be the greatest of days for him. From a former world

number one to the current incumbent. But it was an uphill battle in the

semifinal, and after defeat, he went on to compete for the bronze medal.

Richard Kruse will have to go through to a very nervous bronze

medal match. Between Kruse on the podium, Russia's Timur Safin. Kruse

occurred early on, but then came back to lose by just two points. The

Russian takes the bronze medal. That was edge of the seat stuff. A

fantastic effort, but Britain's wait for a fencing medal goes on.

Richard Kruse was very philosophical afterwards, saying, that is my best

performance ever at an Olympic Games. It is his fourth Olympics. He

is a qualified engineer and also teaches bagpipes once a week to his

local Scout group. White, let's head back to Chappers.

I don't know how to follow that! As we were watching the fencing, Mark

Konta alongside me, who won in Beijing, said, have you ever tried

fencing, to which the answer is known, but you have? Yes, we have a

members' club in London. There was an exhibition event. Me and Leon

Taylor from the diving went head to head and he beat me. Did you connect

with him? I did. He cut me as well. Savage! The reason we are talking

about fencing is because when we went to the Lagoa today, nothing

happened because of the weather. So we were sat in the sun for a few

hours, and the wind is causing problems on the lake again. Yeah,

this lake is an iconic location. You have Copacabana on one side and

Ipanema on the other, and the wind was whipping through the mountains.

I have never seen wind like it at a course before. As you said, we had

no racing today. In the warm-up this morning, there were crews sinking.

Every boat, after the training run, had to come back and empty the water

out. I have never seen that before. This was yesterday, when Serbia went

in. But that was more of an error as well as the conditions. That was a

technical fault. One of them got his or stuck in the water and then he

fell in. We have speaking to a lot of Team GB today in the rowing. It

is something they deal with and conditions can be variable, so

delays are more than commonplace. The problem here at the Olympics is

that there is a time frame for them, and now we are in the situation

where some rowers might have to go twice in a day, which will take its

toll. When you start playing catch-up to get the race is done,

that is when it gets worrying. Also, you could normally miss one day. But

the weather weather is looking, if this becomes a regular occurrence,

as you say, the races will stack up and you could have athletes racing

twice a day, which is not ideal. That plays in favour of the British

team, though. And there are contingency put interest to make

sure we cover our bases. The disadvantage will come for some

other crews were some people are doubling up. The New Zealand pair of

women who will go up against Glover and stunning are also in the New

Zealand eight and they have a busy day tomorrow. That is a first

example of a crew doing two events. They are in the women's eight and

the women's pair. If they have to keep doing that on alternate days,

that will come back and bite them at a crucial point when they are racing

for medals. Mark, thank you. Mark has been busy because he has also

been to the beach volleyball and watched the Brazilian men earlier.

We will show you the Brazilian women later. But now it is time for the

boxing. We had three Team GB boxes in action yesterday. They all won,

so would Joshua Buatsi follow in their footsteps today? He was taking

on Uganda's Kennedy Katende in the light heavyweight round of 32 bouts.

We watch it from the second round of the fight with Richie Woodhall and

Ronald McIntosh. COMMENTATOR: So to the second round

we go. Joshua Buatsi took the opening round across the board. Look

at the response that elicits from Kennedy Katende. He will be aware of

the fact that he has conceded the opening round. That is a cracking

shot! But it has been ruled a slip by the referee. He may have lost his

footing, but surely a shot from Buatsi helped him to that prone

position on the canvas. Just got to keep that guard nice and high,

Buatsi. He also have to keep working with the jab, keep breaking the

opponent down and setting up the backhand. You do that with a good,

educated jab into the face of your opponent. By working with the jab,

you are not getting too close to your opponent, because this fella is

dangerous. So work with the jab, stay at a distance and then bring

the right hand through. Just as the boxers broke away from the clinch,

there was a cracking right hand on a downward trajectory from Buatsi.

Good right hand to the body once again. Look at the manner in which

Katende wilted into the ropes as he absorbed the shot.

Buatsi has already experienced standing on top of a medal podium.

There is a flashing right uppercut which caused Katende to lose his

balance. But Buatsi has already stood on top of medal podium in Rio

when he won the Olympic test event at the back end of last year here in

Rio de Janeiro, with victory over his familiar rival, Peter Mullan

Burke. -- he prevailed over Mullenberg at the gold medal bout in

Turkey to secure his Olympic berth here.

When Buatsi hits the body shot, he does not want to hold it too long

because Katende soaked it up and is looking for the one shot over the

top and if you've landed a body shot and you hold of it, there's a chance

Katende could land a shot. He's got to keep the gap between himself and

Katende, looking at his corner now. Some running repairs to the right

bootlaces. I suspect Katende will welcome the respite. Look how he is

holding his arms over the ropes because he has taken some fearful

shots to the body from Buatsi. Buatsi operating behind a low guard,

he has the edge in reach so when he is beyond punching range, that is

perhaps a safe tactic but it is a fast left hand that Katende

possesses. Lovely shot, nice, and again, so he has worked downstairs,

switches the attack and creates a bit of space for himself because the

opponent comes back. That was such a dominant round, it might be 10-8 and

indeed it is, two judges giving it 10-8 in favour of Joshua Buatsi, who

is in a commanding position, leading by three points on the scorecards of

the first two judges after two completed rounds of boxing and that

is another one of the vagaries of amateur Olympic boxing, unlike in

the professional code, to get a 10-8 round, you have to Bertram Allen the

floor but in the Olympic boxing, a dominant round like Buatsi enjoyed

in Round 2 is enough to score it 10-8 in his favour. Rather tardy

corner work prior to this third and final round. Carried out by the

Ugandan corner. But the man wearing blue, Joshua Buatsi, has one foot in

the second round now because barring a calamitous third and final stanza,

a 3-point margin that he enjoys with the first two judges should be

enough, even if he concedes the final round, to see him progress

through to Round 2 of the living tournament. Again, he continues to

tattooed the rib cage of Kennedy Katende. Competing in his second

Olympics. This has been a rather painful reintroduction to Olympic

competition because Buatsi is hitting him with full leveraged on

both sides of the torso. With both the left and the right hand. He is

really struggling now, Katende, he's been hurt time and again downstairs

and Joshua Buatsi does not want to get complacent, keep working away,

sensible boxing behind the jab, see it out, see the contest through. I'm

sure that is what Paul Walmsley will have said in his corner. He would

have been happy but at the same time, don't get complacent, get the

job done. He is working well, just boxing sensibly in the last round.

26 boxes contesting the light heavyweight tournament, as Katende

touches down on the canvas for the second time and the man from

Uganda's body language is not good. Oh, clubbing right hand and the man

is in trouble and a follow-up right hand came over and his stance

completely betrayed him, the towel has come in and Joshua Buatsi scores

the first stoppage victory of the Olympic boxing tournament at Rio

2016. Joshua Buatsi! What an Olympic debut

from Great Britain's Joshua Buatsi. He progresses to the second round of

the light heavyweight tournament courtesy of a piquillo -- TKO

victory in Round 3 in the second round on the 11th of August in the

morning session, the tournament's number three seed, the Uzbek,

awaits. Talk me through that, that was really impressive. Thank you

very much firstly, I want to thank God for the win. I'm really grateful

for the win and most importantly, I'm glad my opponent is OK. He's a

tough guy but we went in there, and like I said, the aim is to get

anyone that is out in front of me, to eliminate them, whether it is by

knocking them out, beating them on points, whatever way, the aim is to

get the win and that is what we got so I'm grateful for that. Really

impressive from Joshua Buatsi, and Steven Donnelly and David joys of

Ireland have both progressed to the next round as well. If you look over

there in the distance, you might be able to see some glowing lights, one

of the hottest tickets in town, the Copacabana Stadium and that is where

the beach volleyball is taking place, a real coliseum feel to it

and yet one end, that looks out onto the ocean comic open, so it got a

great view for the spectators as well and the Brazilian men action

this evening and we are going to show you the Brazilian women, they

have high hopes for gold in this tournament, this is one of their

favourite strokes, this is Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha

and they took centre stage over there.

They're genuinely is no better place will be followed Bill to be staged

by Kurbatov on a beach. You can't beat it. Leon Taylor has joined me

to talk about diving because today we have the three metres

synchronised diving and we had British representation with Rebecca

Gallantree and Alicia Blagg. How did they get on? And agonising six,

tough to qualify for the synchronised in the Olympic Games,

top eight only, Brazil got a place because they were the hosts 07

really competitive teams and they were not good enough today. They

will be disappointed because they would have been in the running for

an outside medal chance but they were a bit outclassed. Looking at

one of their diets, was the timing out? You get marks for execution and

synchronisation and it was just a bit off. That particular dive,

Alicia had a bit of a knee buckled, as we call it which meant she did

not get enough height. Rebecca on the left is finishing the dive much

higher, and the judges will be no lies heavily forfeiting the water at

different times. -- will penalise heavily. Intent of the winners, no

surprise, was it? Width record-breaking stuff, Minxia Wu

winning her eighth gold medal, eight World Championship golds and at the

grand old age of 30, she is getting towards the end of her career but

they were formidable and incredible to watch. What makes Chinese divers

so good? The history, the Heritage, the training programme and the

conveyor belts just keep coming. They have a system in place that

really works. They looked absolutely fabulous, almost flawless and I know

you were completely blown away by them. How perfect is it? It's in

outboard -- outdoor conditions, windy today, all sorts of things but

I must admit, from a performance perspective, the scores were

slightly lower than we would expect but look at that, poetry in motion,

diving in unison, ripping the entry into the water so the execution

marks are through the roof and the synchronisation is near-perfect. It

is very difficult for them to compete, the rest of the goal --

girls. How will the venue work for Tom Daley and the ten metres

synchronised tomorrow with Daniel Goodfellow, 8pm in the UK. Will it

suits them? What I will say is that I've been watching Tom and Dan

training and they are in fantastic form. They have not been together

that long and all that but they have been putting the hard yards in,

putting the work in and if they dive anything like they have in training,

they will be difficult to beat. Difficult to beat? For the medals. I

thought you were predicting a gold medal! No, you have the Chinese

pair, they are not bullet-proof but they are the ones who are the

reigning champions from all the World Series. Then the Olympic

champion in there as well, in a partnership and then the Russians

and it's going to be tough. But fingers crossed for a medal, 8pm

tomorrow, Tom Daley. Mark? Leon was talking about the diving

being affected by the wind and we spoke about the rowing being

affected and the tennis, some of the play on the outside court suspended

as well because of wind. In the main arena, the court is shielded by the

stands, 17,000 arena so it is very well protected. When all the big

stars eventually got on court, this is who progressed.

A good day for Johanna Konta and Andy Murray and so far in the first

couple of days, the women's rugby sevens squad have been one of the

stars of the tournament as far as we're concerned. They top their

group and they were unbeaten and it got them a quarterfinal against Fiji

that was watched by Eddie Butler and Sir Clive Woodward.

COMMENTATOR: Thank you, Clare Connor Emily Scarratt chases Katy McLean's

kick and it is a monster, amazing start for Great Britain, Abbie Brown

goes over. Katy McLean, the change of tactics.

And Joanne Whatmore with great pace, getting the pick-up, gets the

support. Brilliant bend by Alice Richardson. Having been set back on

their heels by the Fijian try, Great Britain strike back.

It has gone very scrappy. A chance for Great Britain to end the first

half with a third school. It could be for Watmore and it is indeed. --

a third score. A real bonus at the end of the first half and it is

looking very good for Great Britain, a third try, 19-7 with the

conversion to come. Katy McLean, brilliant positioning

by Abbie Brown and that could be the try that sense Great Britain into

the semifinals, into the last four. Very, very good so far. These are

the quarterfinal results with wins for Australia and Canada and New

Zealand, along with Great Britain and that means the semifinal line-up

is as follows, Australia, the top seed, taking on Canada at 6:30pm,

and then Great Britain taking on New Zealand in the other semifinal.

Now as far as Britain is concerned, it's all about Adam Peaty in the 100

metres breast red. 2:53am, UK time, he goes and I know of at least one

woman in the Olympic park who is very excited.

Just before we go, let's look at the medals table as it stands, halfway

through the second day with lots of swimming action to come tonight and

medals on offer but Australia, who did so badly in London, that they

had a big enquiry into what was happening with their Olympic sports,

are at the top of the table ahead of Italy and China. Great Britain yet

to get on it but you suspect, tonight will be the night. It is

well worth staying up because we have swimming finals still to come,

featuring this man.