1650 BST The US have beaten their Chinese hosts, Yao Ming and all, 101-70. Join us tomorrow morning for 14-year-old Tom Daley's quest for a diving medal and Andy Murray as he embarks on his attempt to win tennis gold.

1600 BST The star-studded US basketball team lead China 49-37 at half-time in front of a watching George W Bush. Today's events are drawing to a close but plenty to look forward to on day three including Michael Phelps' attempt to win a second gold in the 4x100m freestyle final.

1530 BST Germany's women run away with the second half to complete a 5-1 win over Great Britain in Pool B. Great Britain have now not beaten Germany in a major tournament since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

1505 BST Relief for Beth Tweddle who squeezes in to the final of the uneven bars final at the gymnastics as the eighth of the eight qualifiers.

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1450 BST GB are losing to fierce rivals Germany 2-1 at half time in the hockey

1435 BST Football results: Italy 3 S Korea 0 Ivory Coast 4 Serbia 2 Belgium 2 China 0. Italy have reached the quarter-finals along with Argentina and Brazil.

1420 BST Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg are out of the women's badminton doubles in the first round after losing 21-19, 21-13 to Zhang Jiewen and Wei Yili, the world No 2 pairing.

1402 BST Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg lose the first game in the badminton 21-19 against China's Zhang Yawen & Wei Yili, the No 3 seeds.

1357 BST Great Britain make it through to the final of the men's freestyle 4x100m relay.

1350 BST United States break the men's 4x100m freestyle world record. This was supposed to be their weakest team.

1343 BST Rebecca Adlington sets a new British and Commonwealth record as she repeats the feat of Jackson in her heat, as Italy's Federica Pellegrini comes in first.

1336 BST Britain's Joanne Jackson comes second in a blistering 400m freestyle heat. It was won by American Katie Hoff who broke the Olympic record.

1316 BST Bradley Saunders records the first knockout of the boxing in this Olympics as he defeats Samuel Kotey Neequaye of Ghana in round one of their light welterweight match.

1307 BST Great Britain's Liam Tancock reaches the semi-finals of the 100m backstroke. His first 50m is under world record pace. Gregor Tait has also made it.

1223 BST Michael Phelps can only manage second in the men's 200m freestyle heats, beaten by Switzerland's Dominik Meichtry. Ross Davenport, the Great Britain swimmer, qualifies by coming but team-mate Robbie Renwick misses out.

1205 BST China win another gold. This time it comes courtesy of Xian Dongmei in the 52kg judo. She beat the formidable An Kum Ae of North Korea.

1138 BST Johnny Joyce wins light welterweight boxing bout for Ireland in the last 32.

1136 BST South Korea win women's archery gold, beating China, much to the crowd's disdain.

1106 BST France rip the bronze from under Britain's noses. The GB women's archery team must settle for fourth.

1044 BST GB's women archers begin their quest for the bronze medal.

1032 BST GREAT BRITAIN WINS FIRST GOLD MEDAL! Nicole Cooke takes the women's cycling road race with the gutsiest of performances in dreadful, rainy conditions.

0946 BST GB go through to the final in the women's quadruple sculls - beating Germany, United States and Australia. A brilliant performance.

0920 BST Great Britain's women archers are knocked out of the gold and silver medal places by China. The Brits can still win bronze.

0842 BST Billy Joe Saunders, the 18-year-old Briton, demolished Adem Kilicci of Turkey 14-3 in his opening welterweight bout. Read about how James DeGale dedicated his victory to Frankie Gavin here.

0826 BST Great Britain's men qualify from the heats in first place in the lightweight double sculls. Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter remain undefeated for the season. They were mightliy impressive. Even Steve Redgrave thinks so. And who's going to argue with him?

0816 BST Great Britain's women qualify from the heats in third place in the lightweight double sculls.

- Great Britain have made it to the semi-finals of the women's archery team event with a victory over Japan. Korea are the clear favourites to take gold after breaking their own world record against Italy in the quarter-finals with a score of 231. Quarter-final results: China 211-206 India; Great Britain 201-196 Japan; France 218-211 Poland; Korea 231-217 Italy.

- The biggest stories so far today have come from the Water Cube where Michael Phelps crushed his rivals to take the 400m medley in a world record time of 4min 3.84sec. For all the details read Craig Lord's report from the aquatic centre.

- Britain gained some ground in the Equestrian team standings after Mary King produced a fine round on Call Again Cavalier. She moved into ninth on the individual list and Britain hold fourth place after the team dressage going into the cross-country.

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- The United States v China basketball game is a mouthwatering prospect. The tip-off is expected at 3.15am and pits LeBron James and Kobe Bryant against the hosts' flag-bearing giant, Yao Ming.

- Thing 14 gold medals are up for grabs today and Michael Phelps (Meet Mike, he swims like a fish) is looking to hook his first of the Games in the 400m individual medley. He broke the Olympic record for the event yesterday.

- Great Britain's women's team archery (Alison Williamson, Naomi Folkard and Charlotte Burgess are ranked second in the world) and Nicole Cooke, riding in the women's cycling road race, both have a chance to stand on the podium today.

Other British interest includes the Murray brothers in the men's tennis doubles against Canada and more boxing action with Bradley Saunders and Billy Joe Saunder (no relation) taking on tough opposition at light-welterweight and welterweight respectively.