After our recent hauls, three medals seems a little underwhelming. But don't underestimate the power that these three medals hold, including two more golds, and there are still more on its way. The first medal of the day came in the Equestrian Team Jumping.
Team GB, consisting of 54-year old Nick Skelton, Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Peter Charles, had guaranteed themselves at least silver when they were forced into a jump off with the Netherlands. The jump off also went all the way and it was all down to Skelton who was riding Big Star. They managed the get through the course without penalty, doing enough to take the gold medal for team GB.
After her recent Twitter abuse, Beth Tweddle deserved to overcome that with a medal in the Women's Uneven Bars. She did just that, scoring 15.916 for her performance which was enough to get bronze. China's Kexin He took silver with a score of 15.933 while Aliya Mustafina from Russia won gold with 16.133.
Our 18th gold medal so far came in Men's Sprint where Jason Kenny won his second Olympic crown. Kenny set a new Olympic Record on his way to beating Frenchman Gregory Bauge who took the silver medal. Australia's Shane Perkins took bronze.
Team GB also has three more guaranteed medal coming their way, the only question is what colour they will be. Luke Campbell in the Men's Bantam beat Detelin Dalakliev of Bulgaria, 16-15, yesterday to book his place in the semi-finals which takes place on Friday.
Anthony Ogogo will also take place in a semi-final on Friday after he guaranteed his Olympic medal by beating Germany's Stefan Hartel, 15-10, today in the Men's Middle. Nicola Adams is the other guaranteed medallist after beating Bulgaria's Stoyka Petrova, 16-7, to book her place in the Women's Fly semi-final, which takes place on Wednesday.
Andrew Selby is just nine minutes away from also guaranteeing himself a medal in the Men's Fly. He takes on Cuba's Carrazana Ramirez in the quarter-finals tomorrow. Victoria Pendleton's hopes of ending her career with a gold is still standing firm. The 31-year old will face Germany's Kristina Vogel in the semi-finals of the Women's Sprint, Pendleton is also looking extremely strong. Laura Trott is also in a promising position to add to her gold medal. She is level at the top of the leader board with USA's Sarah Hammer at the halfway stage. Trott won two of the three events in Women's Omnium today and looks to complete her charge tomorrow.
Team GB are also going strong in the Hockey events. The Women's team have made it into the semi-finals whilst the Men's team have one match left to play in the preliminaries. They are currently level on points with Australia at the top, a point ahead of Pakistan and Spain. GB meet Spain tomorrow, knowing that only a point will be enough to see them progress as Pakistan take on Australia.
Congratulations in also needed to go to Cyprus. They managed to earn their first ever medal in the history of the Olympics courtesy of Pavlos Kontides. The Cypriot scored a total of 59 in the Men's Laser Sailing event which was enough to see him take silver. Sweden's Rasmus Myrgren won bronze with 72 whilst Australia's Tom Slingsby took gold with 43. But very well done Cyprus.
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