The incredible ‘Super Saturday’ from London 2012 could be repeated four years on with Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford all going for gold in Rio and you can follow all the action as it unfolds across BBC TV, Red Button and online.
Great Britain secured three gold medals on day seven with two coming in the rowing and the other courtesy of the men’s track cycling pursuit team, where Sir Bradley Wiggins became the most decorated British Olympic athlete of all time by winning his eighth medal.
ATHLETICS: The athletics takes centre stage on middle Saturday and British fans watching in the early hours of Sunday morning will be hoping for a repeat of that glorious hour of Olympic success at London 2012, when Great Britain won three gold medals on courtesy of Ennis-Hill, Farah and Rutherford.
If that’s going to happen again in Rio, tonight is the night, with the long jump starting at 00:50 UK time on Sunday morning, Farah’s 10,000m follows at 01:25 and the heptathlon’s 800m finale is at 02:53.
The men’s 10,000m final follows, affording Mo Farah the chance to add another gold to his prizes from London, and finally, the 800m rounds off the women’s heptathlon with Jessica Ennis-Hill facing competition from GB team-mate Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
Elsewhere, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will be looking to win a third straight women’s 100m title, but she faces strong competition from Dutch sprinting sensation Dafne Schippers, as well as fellow Jamaican Elaine Thompson and Americans Tori Bowie and English Gardner.
The Rio Games’ first glimpse of Usain Bolt is likely to come some time after 16:00 in the first round of the men’s 100m.
Bolt arrives in Brazil already an Olympic legend, but the Jamaican 29-year-old is hoping to secure the “treble treble” with victory here in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
CYCLING: Britain’s women are in the spotlight at the velodrome on Saturday with team pursuit, which was a nailed-on British gold medal at London 2012 but other nations have loosened GB’s grip at world level over the past couple of years.
In the same session, 2013 world champion Becky James will hope for a medal in the keirin, the race where a motorbike acts as pacesetter before pulling away for the dramatic final laps.
ROWING: It’s the scheduled final day of the Rio’s Olympic rowing regatta with the eights finals taking place from 15:04 and Britain will be hoping to add to hall of medals on the water so far.
The women’s event has seen the United States dominant for a decade and that’s unlikely to change in Rio, but Britain are the 2015 men’s world champions. Germany enter the men’s event as defending Olympic champions.
SWIMMING: On the final night of swimming, Britain’s Fran Halsall heads into the women’s 50m freestyle event as a strong medal contender having been the world’s fourth-fastest over the distance this year.
America’s male swimmers have never lost an Olympic medley relay, which is impressive considering the event has been held since 1960. The Rio relay, due off at 03:04 on Sunday UK time, is the final race in the pool for this Olympics.
TENNIS: A new Olympic champion in the women’s singles tennis will be crowned on day eight, after Serena Williams’ shock exit in the third round, with Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig facing Angelique Kerber in the gold medal match.
Andy Murray will be back on court in the men’s tennis semi-finals, he faces Kei Nishikori for a place in the gold medal match as he bids to retain the title he won at London 2012.
Elsewhere, Britain’s women hockey side, who have already qualified for the knockout stages, face the US at 22:00.
You can watch all the action from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Games across BBC TV, radio and online.
BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and Red Button will have all the action covered, with multiple live streams available online, connected TVs, mobiles, tablets and the BBC Sport app.
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All timings/channels listed in the TV guide below are all subject to change.
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09:15-12:45 |
RIO REPLAY – DAY 7 Presenter: Jason Mohammad |
BBC Two starts the day with a full replay of all the overnight action from day seven, featuring a repeat of the swimming finals and the first evening session of athletics at the Olympic Stadium.
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12:45-17:00 |
ATHLETICS, SWIMMING Presenter: Hazel Irvine |
Live coverage of day eight start on BBC One at 12.45pm with athletics and rowing set to dominate the schedule.
The men’s 100m preliminary round kicks off proceedings at the Olympic Stadium at 13.30, followed by the women’s triple jump qualifying at 13.40.
The focus then switches to the Lagoa Stadium, with the men’s single sculls final at 14.32 followed by the women’s equivalent at 14.44.
The women’s eight final then takes place at 15.04, with the men’s eight final rounding things off at 15.24.
Coverage is then scheduled to shift back to the Olympic Stadium for women’s 400m heats, the heptathlon long jump featuring Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson at 15.45 and round one of the men’s 100m at 16.00.
Olympics coverage continues at 5.20pm on BBC One following a BBC News bulletin at 5.00pm.
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GOLF, BADMINTON, SAILING, BOXING Presenter: Hazel Irvine |
Live coverage resumes on BBC One at 5.20pm with several Olympic sports set to feature before the evening’s events get underway at 7.00pm.
The live action includes the third round of the men’s golf competition on the Olympic Golf Course, as well as badminton and boxing at Riocentro, hockey from the Olympic Hockey Centre and sailing at Marina da Gloria.
19:00-22:10 |
EQUESTRIAN, SHOOTING Presenter: Clare Balding |
Clare Balding takes over at 7.00pm on BBC One with the focus solely on the Rio Olympic Velodrome for various track cycling events.
The first of the men’s sprint quarter-finals takes place at 20.00, with the second round of the women’s keirin getting under way at 20.22.
The women’s team pursuit final then begins at 20.53, with the Team GB squad of Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker, Katie Archibald and Ciara Horne hoping to retain their crown from London four years ago.
The women’s keirin begins at 21.27, with the final following at 21.33, and the action is completed with the men’s sprint semi-finals at 21.41 and 21.59.
Olympics coverage switches to BBC Two at 10.10pm, with BBC News and Match of the Day airing on BBC One through to 11.55pm.
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22:10-23:55 |
DAY 8 ROUND-UP SO FAR Presenter: Clare Balding & Mark Chapman |
Switch over to BBC Two at 10.10pm as Clare Balding and Mark Chapman present a round-up of all the key action so far on day seven in Rio, as well as continued coverage of track cycling.
Men’s sprint cycling continues at the Rio Olympic Velodrome with the semi-finals, plus, Great Britain’s women take on USA at the Olympic Hockey Centre from 22.00, and there is a full round-up of the day’s highlights so far.
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23:55-04:00 |
ATHLETICS, SWIMMING Presenter: Jason Mohammad |
Jason Mohammad presents the final programme of coverage on day eight of the Olympic Games, with Greg Rutherford, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Mo Farah aiming to repeat their `Super Saturday’ heroics of 2012.
The Olympic Stadium takes centre stage for an action-packed evening of athletics, starting with the heptathlon javelin at 00.00, the penultimate discipline of the event.
Reigning Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth champion Rutherford will be hoping to add to his glittering list of honours with another Olympic gold.
The women’s 100m semi-finals begin at 01.00, before focus switches to Farah in the men’s 10,000m final at 01.25, while the heptathlon 800m closes proceedings at 02.53.
Ennis-Hill famously won this event in London four years ago to complete a dominant performance, and she will expect to be in medal contention again this time around.
Swimming finals also take place at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium this evening, with the women’s 50m freestyle at 02.03, the men’s 1500m at 02.11, the women’s 4x100m medley at 02.49 and the men’s equivalent at 03.04.
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13:00-19:00 |
ATHLETICS, CYCLING, FOOTBALL, SAILING Presenter: Ore Oduba |
Ore Oduba introduces the opening live BBC Four coverage on day eight of the Games in Rio.
The second day of athletics gets under way at the Olympic Stadium, with the first round of the women’s steeplechase at 14.05, the men’s discus final at 14.50 and round one of the women’s 400m at 15.00, with Team GB’s Christine Ohuruogu likely to be competing.
The women’s keirin cycling begins at the Rio Olympic Velodrome at 14.00, followed by the last 16 of the men’s sprint at 14.23 and the women’s team pursuit semi-finals at 15.17, plus, women’s keirin repechages at 14.44, and men’s sprint repechages at 15.07.
Later, there is action from the men’s football quarter-finals as well as sailing at Marina da Gloria.
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19:00-02:00 |
BASKETBALL, SAILING, HOCKEY, WEIGHTLIFTING Presenter: Dan Walker |
Dan Walker takes over at 7.00pm with further live coverage from day eight in Rio as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad continue.
Hosts Brazil face South American rivals Argentina in the men’s basketball at Carioca Arena 1, which began at 18.15, and the women’s singles tennis final takes place at the Olympic Tennis Centre.
From 20.00, the women’s 3m springboard diving semi-finals get under way, with British interest most likely to come from Rebecca Gallantree, while the men’s individual trampolining final starts at the Rio Olympic Arena at 19.42.
Great Britain v USA in the women’s hockey is at 22.00 from the Olympic Hockey Centre. Team GB finished third on home soil four years ago, and will be looking to at least match that achievement at this year’s Games.
The evening’s coverage draws to a close with weightlifting at Riocentro, as well as men’s football quarter-finals taking place in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo.
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