Post by Taxigirl on Aug 21, 2004 10:20:50 GMT
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Great Britain have enjoyed a great morning on the Schinias rowing lake winning three medals, including gold in the men's four.
The victory over Canada was determined by a photo finish and gave Matthew Pinsent a fourth Olympic gold.
Cath Bishop and Katherine Grainger won silver in the coxless pair while Sarah Winckless and Elise Laverick took double sculls bronze.
The sweep of medals mean Team GB now have 12 medals and three golds in all.
On a busy morning at the rowing lake golds have been spread around seven different countries with Germany, Norway, Romania, Australia, New Zealand and France winning titles.
Great Britain added their name to the list with victory in the last race of the morning in thrilling fashion.
Other early morning action centred on the Olympic Stadium and the athletics.
Mark Lewis-Francis breezed through qualifying for the 100m in a time of 10.13 seconds, but Darren Campbell, struggling with injury, will have to wait to see if he progresses after finishing fourth in his heat.
At the Olympic Stadium, the heptathlon will reach a climax with the title likely to go to Sweden's Carolina Kluft, although Britain's Kelly Sotherton is pushing for a medal.
But team-mate Emeka Udechuku failed to qualify for the 12-man discus final.
Team GB will also be hoping to pick up some medals on the water in sailing with Ben Ainslie in the Finn and Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield in the 470 class.
The sailors are keen to emulate the achievements of the Yngling crew in winning gold on Thursday and Ainslie is well positioned.
He can only be denied another Olympic gold if he finishes 16 places or more behind second-placed Rafael Trujillo of Spain.
Rogers and Glanfield, who had been in pole position for much of the competition, need to overhaul the USA if they are to make it a hat-trick of British sailing titles.
It also promises to be an exciting day in the Velodrome where Bradley Wiggins will be going for gold in the 4,000m Individual Pursuit final against Australia's Bradley McGee.
The Olympic swimming meet finishes with the women's 50m free, Grant Hackett going in the 1500m free and the women's and men's 4x100m medley - although the USA will be without Michael Phelps, who has given up his place to team-mate Ian Crocker.
At the tennis arena the first golds will be won in the women's singles and men's doubles.
World number one Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium will face second seed Amelie Mauresmo of France in the women's singles gold medal match.
Chile's Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu take on Germany's Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler for men's doubles gold.
There are also medals up for grabs in archery, badminton, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting.
Away from the action, Britain's three-day eventing team will find out whether their appeal against Germany's gold medals will be successful. A decision is expected to be announced at 1500 BST on Saturday.
HIGHLIGHTS (all times BST)
Cycling:
Pursuit final (1547)
Sailing:
Men's 470 race 11
Swimming:
Men's 4x100m medley (1830)
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/schedule/3529614.stm
Great Britain have enjoyed a great morning on the Schinias rowing lake winning three medals, including gold in the men's four.
The victory over Canada was determined by a photo finish and gave Matthew Pinsent a fourth Olympic gold.
Cath Bishop and Katherine Grainger won silver in the coxless pair while Sarah Winckless and Elise Laverick took double sculls bronze.
The sweep of medals mean Team GB now have 12 medals and three golds in all.
On a busy morning at the rowing lake golds have been spread around seven different countries with Germany, Norway, Romania, Australia, New Zealand and France winning titles.
Great Britain added their name to the list with victory in the last race of the morning in thrilling fashion.
Other early morning action centred on the Olympic Stadium and the athletics.
Mark Lewis-Francis breezed through qualifying for the 100m in a time of 10.13 seconds, but Darren Campbell, struggling with injury, will have to wait to see if he progresses after finishing fourth in his heat.
At the Olympic Stadium, the heptathlon will reach a climax with the title likely to go to Sweden's Carolina Kluft, although Britain's Kelly Sotherton is pushing for a medal.
But team-mate Emeka Udechuku failed to qualify for the 12-man discus final.
Team GB will also be hoping to pick up some medals on the water in sailing with Ben Ainslie in the Finn and Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield in the 470 class.
The sailors are keen to emulate the achievements of the Yngling crew in winning gold on Thursday and Ainslie is well positioned.
He can only be denied another Olympic gold if he finishes 16 places or more behind second-placed Rafael Trujillo of Spain.
Rogers and Glanfield, who had been in pole position for much of the competition, need to overhaul the USA if they are to make it a hat-trick of British sailing titles.
It also promises to be an exciting day in the Velodrome where Bradley Wiggins will be going for gold in the 4,000m Individual Pursuit final against Australia's Bradley McGee.
The Olympic swimming meet finishes with the women's 50m free, Grant Hackett going in the 1500m free and the women's and men's 4x100m medley - although the USA will be without Michael Phelps, who has given up his place to team-mate Ian Crocker.
At the tennis arena the first golds will be won in the women's singles and men's doubles.
World number one Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium will face second seed Amelie Mauresmo of France in the women's singles gold medal match.
Chile's Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu take on Germany's Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler for men's doubles gold.
There are also medals up for grabs in archery, badminton, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting.
Away from the action, Britain's three-day eventing team will find out whether their appeal against Germany's gold medals will be successful. A decision is expected to be announced at 1500 BST on Saturday.
HIGHLIGHTS (all times BST)
Cycling:
Pursuit final (1547)
Sailing:
Men's 470 race 11
Swimming:
Men's 4x100m medley (1830)
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/schedule/3529614.stm