Once again there has been some wonderful sport today starting with the women’s triathlon this morning. Heather Jenkins was the great GB hope and coming into the third phase, the run, she was in the leading group. That group was whittled down to just 5 athletes as they neared the finish but Jenkins just could stay with the pace. The finish though was quite something with the Swiss Spirig beating Norden of Sweden by a whisker – in fact it needed a photo to split them. Switzerland becomes the first nation to win the triathlon event twice at the Games following the victory of Brigitte McMahon in the women’s triathlon at Sydney 2000, where the sport made its Olympic debut.
The tennis tournament has produced some classic matches and today was no exception. Andy Murray and Laura Robson brilliantly won a Mixed Doubles semi-final for Great Britain against Germans Christopher Kas and Sabine Lisicki. They will meet Mirniy and Azarenka from Belrus in the final. Elsewhere at Wimbledon Serena Williams demolished Sharapova 6.0, 6.1 and the Bryan brothers took the men’s doubles for USA.
In the rowing Team GB celebrated double gold medal glory on an historic Olympic Saturday with the men’s Four and the women’s Lightweight Double Sculls winning titles in exciting style. It was very nearly three gold in the men’s lightweight double sculls but we were just pipped by the Danes.
There was a gutsy win for Denmark in the badminton men’s doubles when Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen recorded a thrilling semi-final victory over Republic of Korea’s Chung Jae-sung and Lee Yong 17-21 21-18 22-20. In an all Chinese final Xuerui Li beat Yihan Wang in the women’s singles. China also won the women’s doubles with Japan getting the silver.
GB can do no wrong in the track cycling. Great Britain’s women claimed Team Pursuit gold in a blistering world record time at the Olympic Velodrome.
We just can’t stop winning gold medals with the latest coming in the men’s long jump thanks to Greg Rutherford, Jessica Ennis in the heptathlon and a magnificent performance from Mo Farah in the 10,000m. Phew! What a night of athletics.
What a shame that the evening ended with GBs defeat in the football. It just had to be another penalty shoot out.
Loads more to look forward to tomorrow with Ben Ainslie going for gold in the sailing. The gold medal in the Finn class is between Ainslie, Hogh-Christensen the Dane and Postma of the Netherlands. In the Star class Percy and Simpson, winners in Beijing have the Brazilians and the Swedes as the main danger. We also have the men’s 100m and the tennis finals.
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