GOLD PEDAL ... Nicole races to glory
Full guide to Team GB's competitors in the Olympics.
DIVING
Women’s Synchronised 3m Springboard final. GB: Tandi Gerrard, Hayley Sage 8th.
SWIMMING
Women’s 400m individual medley final. GB: Hannah Miley 6th.
Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay final. GB: Francesca Halsall, Caitlin McClatchey, Jessica Sylvester, Melanie Marshall 7th.
Women’s 100m backstroke heats. GB: Gemma Spofforth 3rd, Elizabeth Simmonds 4th — eliminated.
Women’s 100m butterfly semi-final. GB: Jemma Lowe 4th — eliminated.
Men’s 200m freestyle heats. GB: Robert Renwick 3rd, Ross Davenport 6th — eliminated.
Men’s 100m backstroke semi-final. GB: Chris Cook 7th — eliminated.
ARCHERY
GB Women’s team: Charlotte Burgess, Naomi Folkard, Alison Williamson 4th.
BADMINTON
Women’s Doubles round of last 16. GB: Gail Emms, Donna Kellogg lost 21-19 21-13 to China’s world No 1 pair Yili Wei, Yawen Zhang.
Women’s Singles. GB: Tracey Hallam bt Kristina Ludikova (Cz) (into 3rd rd).
BOXING
Welterweight. GB: Billy Joe Saunders bt Adem Killecci (Turk).
Light-welter. GB: Bradley Saunders KO’d Sam Neequaye (Ghana).
CYCLING
Women’s Road Race final. GB: Nicole Cooke GOLD.
EQUESTRIAN
Team Dressage — Day 2. GB 4th.
Individual dressage. Mary King 9th, Kristina Cook 13th, Sharon Hunt 18th, William Fox-Pit 34th, Daisy Dick 37th.
GYMNASTICS
Women’s artistic qualification. GB: Imogen Cairns, Becky Downie, Marissa King, Beth Tweddle, Hannah Whelan, Rebecca Wing 5th.
HOCKEY
Women’s Prelims. GB 1 Germany 5.
ROWING
Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls heats. GB: Helen Casey, Hester Goodsel 3rd (into repechage).
Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls heats. GB: Mark Hunter, Zac Purchase 1st.
Men’s Lightweight Four heats. GB: Richard Chambers, James Clarke, James Lindsay-Fynn, Paul Mattick 2nd (into next rd).
Women’s Quadruple Sculls heats. GB: Deborah Flood, Katherine Grainger, Frances Houghton, Annie Vernon 1st (into final).
Women’s Eight heats (p/poned bad weather). GB: Carla Ashford, Jess Eddie, Katie Greves, Natasha Howard, Alison Knowles,Caroline O’Connor, Natasha Page, Beth Rodford, Sarah Winckless.
Men’s Eight heats (p/poned bad weather). GB: Richard Egington, Alastair Heathcote, Matthew Langridge, Tom Lucy, Acer Nethercott, Alex Partridge, Colin Smith, Tom Stallard, Josh West.
SAILING
Skiff Dinghy-49er. GB: Stevie Morrison, Ben Rhodes 4th, 3rd, 5th in heats.
Finn. GB: Ben Ainslie 4th, 1st in heats.
Women’s Yngling. GB: Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, Pippa Wilson 4th, 7th in heats.
TENNIS
Men’s Doubles 1st rd (p/poned). GB: Andy Murray, Jamie Murray v Daniel Nestor, Fred Neimeyer (Can).
But Team GB cycling boss Dave Brailsford reckons there is far more to come and insisted: “We can’t wait to get the rest of the team in action!”
Superboss Brailsford will unleash Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton, Mark Cavendish, Rebecca Romero and BMX wondergirl Shanaze Reade in an attempt at grabbing a record-breaking EIGHT golden gongs.
The man who saw his team win nine of the 18 titles at the world track championships in Manchester, said: “What a brilliant start by Nicole.
“And what a massive boost for the rest of the team.
“I was on the phone back to them at the Olympic Village as Nicole crossed the line and I thought the place had erupted!
“Everyone is on an incredible high.”
BEAMING ... winner Cooke
He added: “Some people are probably expecting me to downplay it a bit so as not to create too many expectations.
“On the contrary. We wanted to get off to a good start.
“And Nicole has made sure we have.
“I believe we have the team to build on her success — and the form.”
Neither torrential rain nor a safety-first tactic at the last bend that saw Cooke, 25, slip 20 metres adrift of the leading pack could stop the Welsh girl fighting back to hit the front and hold her lead in a nailbiting 150m dash to the finishing line.
Cooke said: “I’d trained all year for this and I wasn’t going to let it slip away at the end.
“No, the conditions weren’t the best. But I’ve raced in the snow before so I wasn’t going to let a little bit of rain put me off!”
Cooke was timed at 3hrs, 32min, 24secs for the 126km event, along with both Sweden’s second-placed Emma Johannson and Italy’s Tatiana Guderzo — but won the gold by a wheel and a half.
Cooke let out a scream of delight as she won and said: “I couldn’t help it. That’s the way I am, passionate and emotional.”
Cooke had huge support from team-mates Emma Pooley and Sharon Laws.
And the golden girl insisted: “I couldn’t have done it without them. This gold medal belongs to them as much as me.”
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