Olympics - day 4

Wow, keeping track of everything that's going on at the Olympics is a real challenge - 23 different sports taking place during the course of the day today, with lots of incident and excitement along the way.

A few highlights that have caught my eye:

• Our one medal (silver) of the day coming in the Team eventing, but no medals in the individual competition, with our top finishers coming 5th and 6th.
• An interesting trivia question from the eventing. Was today an Olympic first with a competitor (Zara Phillips) being presented with their medal by their Mum (Princess Anne)?
• It's anything but plain sailing for Ainslie at the moment. After six races he is in second place (on a net 17 points compared with net 7 for the leader), but in all six races so far he's been behind the Dane. Tomorrow is a rest day for the Finn class, so hopefully he'll come back strong on Thursday.
• Our women's football team had a great game this evening, beating Brazil 1-0. They've won their group and will now face Canada in the quarter-finals.
• The women's hockey team beat South Korea 5-3, and head their group having played two and won two.
• The GB badminton campaign is over - all of our players have now been knocked out in the group stages.
• The women's gymnastics team couldn't match the men's amazing result yesterday, finishing 6th in the team event.
• In the pool, there's hope for the 200m men's breaststroke final tomorrow as we have two swimmers through to the final - qualifying in the 1st and 3rd fastest times.
• Phelps was the favourite for the 200m butterfly final but was beaten by 0.05s by the South African Chad le Clos. The South African was understandably emotional about beating his hero, and blabbed his way through the national anthem, as did his parents in the stands, his Dad wiping his eyes on his flag!
• Despite being beaten into second, Phelps' silver in the 200m fly was his 18th Olympic medal, equalling the record for the most medals won by an individual athlete at the Olympic Games. Then, in case we hadn't already realised that the man was a legend, a little while later he picked up his 19th - a gold (bringing the total to 15 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze) in the 4 x 200m relay.

Overall, our medal tally of four so far, with no golds, is starting to feel a little concerning. We are going to have to go some to get to the 47 that we achieved in 2008. Seems to me like tomorrow is a key day when we really need to collect some medals, with our key opportunities in the first of the rowing finals and in the cycling time trials.

Looking forward to hearing a report from Mum and Dad tomorrow of today's trip to Eton Dorney.

TEAM GB
Today: 1 silver
So far: 2 silver, 2 bronze
Medal table position: 21st