A new Olympic Record for Usain Bolt sustains his title of World's Fastest Man. It would be the best 100m final ever as all of the fastest men alive took part. Bolt stood alongside fellow Jamaicans, Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell, Americans, Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay and Ryan Bailey, Richard Thompson of Trinidad & Tobago and Europe's participant, Churandy Martina from the Netherlands.
Places 2-7 finished with the fastest times ever recorded ion those positions with Powell in eighth, the only man to finish outside ten seconds due to an injury. But no-one could take the limelight away from Bolt as he came from a poor start to record a time of 9.63 seconds. Blake won the silver medal with his equalled personal best of 9.75 seconds with Gatlin earning bronze with his personal best of 9.79, 0.01 seconds ahead of Gay in fourth.
Before the 100m final, everyone was talking about GB's latest gold medal winners, Ben Ainslie and Andy Murray. Ainslie started the day off in the Men's Finn Sailing medal race. He managed to stave off another attack from his Danish rival, Jonas Hogh-Christensen, to earn his fourth Olympic gold medal, becoming the greatest Olympian in Sailing history.
Ainslie's gold was followed up by a silver medal for Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson in the Men's Star Sailing medal race. The British pair finished three points behind the Swedish duo, Fredrik Loof and Max Salminen but four points ahead of the Brazilian duo, Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada.
But the lead up today was all about Murray who had the prospect of winning two gold medals. Murray had the unenviable task of playing Roger Federer, his Wimbledon conqueror. But the Brit performed some of his best tennis to completely blow the Swiss away. Murray took the first set 6-2 before storming the second 6-1. Federer tried his hardest to fight the partisan crowd but Murray proved to be too strong and took the third set 6-4 to seal that emphatic gold medal. Juan Martin Del Potro sealed bronze with a fantastic 7-5 6-4 over Novak Djokovic.
A couple of hours later, the pumped Murray returned on court with Laura Robson as they played out their Mixed Doubles final against Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi from Belarus. The British pair got off to a fantastic start with a 6-2 first set after leading 4-0. But the Belarussian pair regained their composure and took the second set 6-3 to force a Champions Tie-Break.
The top seeds took the momentum into the tie-break and took a 9-6 lead. Two fantastic serves from Robson pulled it back to 9-8 before Belarus finally completed the victory to leave Murray and Robson with the silver medal.
GB claimed four other medals today. The Men's Pommel Horse saw Louis Smith miss out on gold on a tie-break after he and gold medallist Krisztian Berki were tied on 16.066 points. Behind those two came Hemel Hempstead's Max Whitlock. The 19-year old posted a score of 15.600 points to earn the bronze medal.
Ed Clancy also picked up a bronze medal in the Men's Omnium Cycling event. Clancy agonisingly finished a single point behind France's Bryan Coquard on 30 points. Denmark's Lasse Norman Hansen took the gold medal with 27 points.
Our final medal today came in the Women's 400m. Christine Ohuruogu performed a season's best, 49.70 seconds, to earn the silver medal in between two Americans. DeeDee Trotter won the bronze medal with her season best time of 49.72 seconds. Sanya Richards-Ross took gold for USA with a time of 49.55 seconds.
The heartbreak of the day came in the Women's Water Polo. Team GB faced Spain in the quarter finals and forced them all the way. After taking a 2-1 lead, GB ended up being 6-2 behind after the second quarter. Three goals in the third quarter slightly pulled the score back to 8-5. The girls then bravely fought back to 8-7 in the final moments in the last quarter before Spain ended the GB hopes in the final 30-seconds to win the game 9-7.
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