Olympics 2012: Live Report

1137 GMT: Another big US sprinter, Justin Gatlin, is in the next heat -- he won 100m gold in Athens in 2004 but missed Beijing in 2008 due to a doping ban.

1133 GMT: Tyson Gay takes that heat easily in 10.08secs. Richard Thompson of Trinidad is in second in 10.14 and Gerald Phiri third in 10.16 -- they're the qualifiers.

1132 GMT: ATHLETICS: Total silence in the stadium, then the starting gun is fired for this men's 100m first round heat...

1131 GMT: Just before that starts, another doping casualty -- Brazilian rower Kissya Cataldo is kicked off her Olympic team on Saturday after failing a drugs test, the Brazilian International Olympic Committee says.

Cataldo, who was tested before the Games started, was immediately pulled from the single sculls event where she had been due to race later Saturday.

1130 GMT: ATHLETICS: After the preliminary rounds earlier today, the men's 100m first round proper starts very shortly. The US's Tyson Gay is in the first heat in lane 7. Huge applause in the stadium as they come forward for the race, but Gay looks nervous.

1122 GMT: It sounds as if the atmosphere is warming up at the table tennis. AFP's Barnaby Chesterman reports:

"Someone just tried to start a Mexican Wave at the table tennis and it managed to get most of the way around the stands before running out of steam.

"But the North Korean delegation are now doing their best to start up some hand-clapping and foot-stomping."

1118 GMT: Palomeque has been provisionally suspended from the Games.

1117 GMT: Colombian sprinter Diego Palomeque has failed a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee confirms. He tested positive for high levels of testosterone in a routine examination on July 26.

The 18-year-old had been due to compete in the men's 400m heats today.

1107 GMT: More people used the London Underground, or Tube, on Thursday than any other time in its history, official body Transport for London is reporting.

Some 4.31 million passengers used the Tube that day, breaking the record of 4.25 million set on Wednesday. Not bad for a network that incorporates the world's oldest stretch of underground railway.

1106 GMT: More from Kat Copeland, who says to her rowing partner Sophie Hosking in disbelief, "We just won the Olympics! We're going to be on a stamp!"

1105 GMT: China's Xu Dongxiang and Huang Wenyi take the silver in that lightweight women's double sculls, while Greece's Christina Giazitzidou and Alexandra Tsiavou get bronze.

1104 GMT: Kat Copeland, one of that women's winning rowing duo along with Sophie Hosking, says: "I know this isn't the Oscars, but can I thank my mum and dad?"

1059 GMT: ROWING: GREAT BRITAIN WIN GOLD IN LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULLS. More on that shortly...

1056 GMT: US President Barack Obama has meanwhile lauded the US' Olympic athletes in his weekly radio address.

"These games remind us that for all our differences, we're Americans first," the president said, paying especial tribute to those who had struggled and worked multiple jobs to reach the Games.

"And we could not be prouder of the men and women representing our country in London, in both the Olympics and in the Paralympics."

1055 GMT: BOXING: The United States' flagging Olympics boxing campaign has been revived with a success by welterweight Errol Spence in his appeal against his defeat to India's Krishan Vikas.

Vikas had been awarded Friday's last 16 bout 13-11, but the US appealed the decision.

The result has now been altered to 15-13 in favour of Spence after the competition jury decided that two warnings should have been given to the Indian fighter, resulting in four more points being added to the American's score.

Spence, who is America's last boxer in the tournament, will now face Russia's Andrey Zamkovoy in Tuesday's quarter-finals.

1050 GMT: HEPTATHLON: Standings ahead of the javelin: Great Britain's Jessica Ennis leads with 5,519 points, followed by Lithuania's Austra Skujyte on 4,901 and then Russia's Tatyana Chernova on 4,869.

1047 GMT: ROWING: More details on that British win -- it was their fourth successive Olympic men's four title.

The home crew -- Alex Gregory, Pete Reed, Tom James and Andrew Triggs Hodge -- led from the first stroke to deny arch rivals Australia, with the United States taking bronze.

Britain also won the men's four title in Sydney, Athens and in Beijing.

1044 GMT: In Britain, the Royal Mail -- the beleaguered government postal service -- is painting one of its trademark red post boxes gold in the home town of each British gold medallist. One's just been unveiled in Cardiff in Wales for Geraint Thomas of the winning men's pursuit team -- they seem to be a hit with a public who have largely abandoned "snail mail".

1040 GMT: ATHLETICS: The first round of the women's 3,000m steeplechase is on now, while there's a lot of discussion in the Olympic park about the volume of music in the stadium. Some are loving the classic pop they're playing in there -- others say it's too loud and distracts spectators from the superstars on the track.

1039 GMT: ROWING: Great Britain take the gold in the men's coxless fours ahead of Australia, with the United States taking the bronze.

1036 GMT: British Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith can't tear herself away from the action in the main stadium for long enough to eat. She tweets: "Anyone in the Olympic village fancy bringing me some breakfast? (Yes breakfast). I'm busy watching the athletics. I'll hug you if you do."

1035 GMT: Britain's Jessica Ennis jumps 6.48m and home pundits are already predicting she'll get the gold. But we're not there yet...

1030 GMT: HEPTATHLON: Defending Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine is virtually out of contention after two fouls and an aborted long jump.

1025 GMT: TRIATHLON: Some background on women's triathlon winner Nicola Spirig: the 20-year-old, a former world junior champion, is Switzerland's second Olympic triathlon gold-medallist after Brigitte McMahon won the inaugural event at Sydney 2000.

1020 GMT: The US's Lashawn Merritt fails to finish his heat of the men's 400m after struggling with an injury from the Monaco Diamond League last month -- a sad end to the Games for the Olympic 400m champion.

But he seems philosophical, telling the BBC: "I'm still young and I have a long career ahead of me. There was no reason to push it. I'll be rested and ready for the World Champs next year."

He adds that he's been undergoing "countless hours of treatment from 8am till about 10pm".

Merritt tested positive for steroids three times in late 2009 and served a 21-month doping ban before winning an appeal to an arbitrator and successfully fighting an Olympic rule that would have banned him from the London Games.

1012 GMT: ATHLETICS: Britain's Jessica Ennis jumps 6.40m in the heptathlon long jump to take her up to 975 points -- she looks delighted though Russia's Tatyana Chernova is still ahead of her in the standings.

US decathlete Bryan Clay, a 2008 gold medallist:"I think @J_Ennis just shut the door on the comp. w/ that last jump! That's how CHAMPIONS respond to pressure! Wow!"

1011 GMT: AFP's Jim Slater reports from the BASKETBALL: "British dad with two young daughters on telescreen in the basketball arena asked why they were such flag-waving supporters of winless Tunisia against France this morning.

"He says, 'We figured they could do with a little extra support so we bought the flag on e-Bay.'

"He was right. It's 71-61 France late in the fourth."

Since he sent this, France have won 73-69, all but clinching a place in the medal playoffs.

1007 GMT: Switzerland's Olympic Twitter account is over the moon. "Gold f?r Nicola Spirig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" it tweets -- we don't think that needs translating.

1003 GMT: Although Norden was so close to catching up with Spirig, the replay shows Nicola Spirig of Switzerland just ahead in 1:59:48! She gets the gold. Silver to Lisa Norden of Sweden.

1002 GMT: Australia's Erin Densham has the bronze.

1000 GMT: An amazingly close finish there! Spirig and Lisa Norden of Sweden in a dead heat -- their times are coming up as identical. Waiting to hear from the judges on that -- it's a photo finish. Both collapse to the ground the moment they cross the finish line.

0958 GMT: TRIATHLON: The gruelling women's triathlon is drawing to a close with the running in Hyde Park. A group of four leading with Switzerland's Nicola Spirig at the front.

0956 GMT: ATHLETICS: Russia's Tatyana Chernova jumps an impressive 6.54 in the women's heptathlon long jump, far ahead of British hope Jessica Ennis in the first of three jumps.

0942 GMT: CYCLING: While we were transfixed by the track, the men's cycling sprint qualifiers were taking place and Britain's Jason Kenny broke the Olympic record, coming in at 9.713sec.

Gregory Bauge of France was second in 9.952 and Shane Perkins of Australia third in 9.987.

0940 GMT: Pistorius looks exhilarated after his heat. "It was such a mix of emotions... when i walked out i saw my granddad, an amazing experience -- so thank you very much," he tells the BBC.

"The crowd is just amazing, a full house... I've run so many times in the UK -- this crowd feels like a second home to me so it's really a blessing."

0936 GMT: A huge roar in the stadium as Pistorius chases Dominican Luguelin Santos in his men's 400m heat -- Santos is in first, Pistorius in second and both are through along with Russia's Maksim Dyldin in third. Not a bad start from Pistorius, who had a long battle to be allowed to compete.

0935 GMT: Pistorius is in lane six for his heat after a big cheer from the crowd on his arrival.

0930 GMT: Oscar Pistorius, about to become the first amputee to compete on the Olympic track on his famous blades, is in the stadium.

0915 GMT: The current 100m men's heat includes the Maldives' Ahmed Azneem -- a rare appearance by an athlete from the tiny Indian Ocean island state which has been in political turmoil this year.

He comes in third in 10.79 which leaves him with a possibility of going through to the next round.

Aymard Bosse Berenger of the Central African Republic takes the round but looks as though he may have a hamstring injury.

0910 GMT: Jurgen Themen from Suriname takes the second heat and looks delighted. Indonesia's Fernando Lumain, in second, is also through to the next round.

0908 GMT: ATHLETICS: In the first men's 100m heat, Bolivia's Artur Bruno Rojas comes in first followed by Congo's Devilert Kimbembe. But the more than slightly partisan crowd is busy cheering on Britain's Jessica Ennis at the women's heptathlon long jump in the other part of the stadium!

0905 GMT: AFP's Barnaby Chesterman, a judo black belt, has switched from covering judo to table tennis today and it sounds as if it might take him some time to get used to it.

"After covering a week of judo I've come to a wake!" he says.

"Table tennis is much more sedate and that despite a match between the two Koreas! The biggest cheer so far was some polite clapping of a British referee."

Perhaps it's just the time of day...

0900 GMT: ATHLETICS: Men's 100m heats are beginning in the main Olympic stadium and the women's heptathlon long jump is also to get started.

The atmosphere in this stadium yesterday was the talk of the Games -- sadly the weather's a bit gloomier today but with Usain Bolt and Oscar Pistorius due to turn up, it's unlikely to be much less electric.

0855 GMT: Germany's Svenja Bazlen heads the leading group of about 20 competitors in the triathlon. Still cycling, they pass over the Serpentine in Hyde Park with a beautiful view of central London ahead of them -- not that they've got a lot of time to admire it at this moment...

0850 GMT: Australia's Emma Moffatt has crashed and is out of the triathlon, the country's Olympic team confirms on Twitter.

"Condition unknown, Olympic dream over," they tweet.

0845 GMT: TRIATHLON: More painful-looking crashes on wet central London roads in the women's triathlon as they circle the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace again.

0840 GMT: This from AFP's Andrew Newby, who was at the Olympic hockey yesterday as a spectator, having covered three other Olympics for us:

"Unexpectedly, it felt like an even bigger privilege to watch the Olympics as a pure spectator than it was to attend as a journalist," Andrew reports.

"My companions and I were swept up in the excitement as we mingled with over 100,000 other sports fans in the vast Olympic park on our way to the hockey matches for which we were allocated tickets in the free-for-all application process.

"No miserable point-scoring politicians to be seen, no overpaid moronic footballers, just players at the pinnacle of their sport and people who enjoy watching sport for its own sake.

"Would the two men's hockey Group and B matches justify our mounting expectations? Definitely! In a packed Riverbank Stadium, we saw a well-balanced thriller between Argentina and Australia, ending in a very fair 2-2 draw and a show of supreme skill by the Dutch squad, who racked up a 5-1 triumph over valiant but outclassed New Zealand.

"Any grouses? Not really. The heavy shower of rain just as the second match finished gave us a chance try try our ponchos. The rain gave the Olympics an extra British touch. Next Thursday, I actually get to watch athletics in the main Olympic Stadium. Bring it on!"

0830 GMT: TRIATHLON: After a chilly start to the day with a swim in the Serpentine, the women triathletes are on their bikes with Britain's Lucy Hall at the head of a leading pack of five.

They're passing Buckingham Palace now -- not a bad setting for a race. But the ground is wet after rainfall overnight and Brazil's Pamella Oliveira crashed close to Hyde Park.

0810 GMT: Some highlights to look forward to today:

+ Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake get their 100m campaigns under way and Oscar Pistorius makes history as the first amputee to feature in the Olympics (from 0900 GMT)

+ Michael Phelps looks for his 22nd Olympic medal and 18th gold in the men's 4x100m medley relay (1925 GMT)

+ Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams clash in the women's singles final at Wimbledon (from 1300 GMT)

+ Britain's Mo Farah and Ethiopia's Kenensisa Bekelele battle it out with other competitors in the men's 10,000m final (2015 GMT)

+ In the pool, China's Sun Yang tries to complete a long distance double by adding the 1,500m crown to the 400m gold won earlier in the games (1836 GMT)

+ Britain's cyclists seek to extend their crushing dominance in the Velodrome with gold in the women's team pursuit (1645 GMT)

+ Women's heptathlon leader Britain's Jessica Ennis vies with Lithuania's Austra Skujyte and Canada's Jessica Zelinka for victory (from 0905 GMT)

WELCOME TO AFP'S LIVE REPORT on what has been dubbed "Super Saturday" -- the busiest day of the London Olympics so far, with a cool 25 medals available.

It's the first outing for Olympic megastars including Usain Bolt and Oscar Pistorius, who will become the first amputee to run on the Olympic track.

Events including the women's triathlon have already begun, with the women swimming across London's Serpentine in their wetsuits at this moment.

Stand by for a fuller rundown of what to expect today...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympics-2012-live-report-081152149--oly.html

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