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We've won another gold (and some bronzes) but have slipped to fourth in the overall medal table as Russia have won a couple of golds they were expected to win (synchro swimming, rhythmic gymnastics) so it looks like we'll finish in fourth place. Currently, Germany are fifth and Australia sixth, and both won gold today.

Our medals of the day are:

Gold - Boxing - James DeGale, middleweight

Bronze - Canoeing - Tim Brabants, K1 500m

Bronze - Taekwondo - Sarah Stevenson, +67kg

I also watched Tom Daley's appearance in the diving finals live, he finished 7th, excellent performance and of course everyone has him down as one to watch for London 2012. The Australian guy who won did so with an unbelieveably perfect final dive, and then proceeded to bawl his eyes out and hug everyone in the watercube.

Last day tomorrow! It's gone so quickly, I can't believe it. And then all eyes will be on us.
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More medals, and we're just managing to stay ahead of Russia overall. Unfortunately the much-heralded Shanaze Reade crashed out of the BMX race, leaving the Games not with a gold medal but a badly damaged hand. But we have had some successes:

Gold - Canoeing - Tim Brabants, men's K1 1000m

Silver - Modern Pentathlon - Heather Fell

Bronze - Boxing - David Price, super-heavyweight

Bronze - Boxing - Tony Jeffries, light-heavyweight

James DeGale has made the finals of the middleweight boxing, so that's at least another silver to come. And I'm wondering if anything will come of the controversy over some of the Chinese women gymnasts - if it does come to medals being stripped, that could see Beth Tweddle being moved up from 4th place on the bars. We shall see.