Golds At Last

In a very typically British manner, we've waited the best part of a week for a British gold medal and then two come at once. Firstly this morning, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning pulled off a fantastic victory to win gold in the women's pair rowing. With a time of 7:27:13, the pair were a whole two seconds clear of the Australian couple who took silver ahead of New Zealand.

That was then followed by the sportsman of the year, Bradley Wiggins. He is, without doubt, set to scoop the BBC Sports Personality of the year award and probably a knighthood. Not only has he become the first British rider to win the Tour De France in majestic fashion, he has now taken the gold medal in the men's individual time trial. Wiggins finished just under a second ahead of Germany's Tony Martin to move Britain into eleventh in the Medals Table. Christopher Froome backed Wiggins by grabbing the gold medal to heap extra celebration for the GB cycling team.

The two golds take Britain's medal tally up to nine with more set to come. The cycling team have won another medal as Elizabeth Armitstead took silver in the women's road race. Zara Phillips and company have also taken silver in the team eventing equestrian event. 

Big medal hopeful, Louis Smith, has helped his men's gymnastic team take bronze behind Japan and China. The men's eight in the rowing have also taken bronze alongside that emphatic gold by the women pair. Team GB have also accumulated two medals from swimming. Michael Jamieson has made a name for himself by taking silver in the Men's 200M Breaststroke with the bigger name of Rebecca Adlington, taking bronze in the Women's 400M Freestyle and she is also looking to make history by regaining her gold in the 800M.

In other sports, Andy Murray has made his way into the fourth round of the tennis tournament. Both the men's and women's football teams have made it out of their groups to take their places in the knock-out phases. After two games in the hockey tournament, the men's team are currently second in their group whilst the women are first in theirs.

Two startling records have taken place in the tennis and football. Ryan Giggs became the oldest player to score in an Olympic tournament during GB's 3-1 win over UAE. After John Isner and Nicolas Mahut's 70-68 thriller in the 2010 Wimbledon tournament, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Milos Raonic paid homage to that by breaking the Olympic record. With the match tied at one set apiece, the third set went into a tie-break. But the pair still couldn't be separated at 23-23 before the fourth seed finally saw off the plucky Canadian to squeeze through. Tsonga has since beaten Feliciano Lopez in straight sets to join Murray into the fourth round.