The sailing is based on points scored over several races, and the points are decided by position in each race, so the crowd would have known just where he needed to finish, and would know where his opponents needed to finish, these would have been die hard sailing followers who would lead the cheering, and the rest would just follow.

I'd have been hard pressed to see which boat was which to be honest.

They have a big screen showing the TV view, and they have things called binoculars..

What are these things of which you speak? Tomfoolery, I'll be bound.

My lady, they are things you put in front of your eyes, they make small things look much biger, and are usually used by ladies when looking at a certain part of their husbands anatomy.

Australia wins a second Gold ... Good on them, it's nice to have a playmate

i'm praying for Sally Pearson. she's such a nice girl.

and the only out gay male Olympian, Matt Mictham.

no need to pray for that, it's in the bag based on her heat. She's in a different race.

Meanwhile back to cycling King Kenney takes out Buage and his twin pillars of doom, for sprint gold.

oh yeah, blokes did something with a horse as well

That's 18 gold now I think with some more very possibly still to come. Fantastic.

I'd say we're just about ahead of 2008, as we won 19 then but there are less cycling track medals up for grabs this time

3rd place in the bag for gb. 18 gold already and could get 25. Come on aussie with a bit of a push you could get up with New zealand, Kazakhstan and North Korea!!

Depending what other nations do, top 10 could still be in sight for Oz, Diamond and Pearson will need to deliver though.

Alastair and Jonathan Brownlee are from Yorkshire*, so stay tuned for the triathlon (11am UK time).


* apart from that and the fact that they race ITU, I quite like 'em

Diamond has bombed, so Oz had better get cosy with North Korea