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OLYMPICS LIVE THREAD - DAY 14

Overnight GB picked up their 52nd medal as the hockey team won a thrilling bronze medal match against India 4-3. And Lauren Price won her boxing SF so will go into the gold medal match on Sunday.

Currently keeping an eye on the 10m diving qualifier with Tom Daley and Noah Williams and the cycling sprint qualifying with Katy Marchant.

Katy Marchant qualifies 8th for the next sprint round. The top 17 riders all beat the previous Olympic Record!

Jack Carlin lost his first SF match against Harry Lavreyson. If he loses the next one (as expected) he'll go into the bronze medal match. Katy Marchant easily through to the next sprint round of 16.

Carlin into the bronze medal match. *Should* win that one. Pushed Lavreyson hard.

Hope everyone is watching this madison - it's such a great race. GB currently leading halfway through.

Doesn't help people's understanding that the BBC commentators don't seem to realise GB , Denmark and ROC gained a lap. GB just need to not crash to win gold here.

It's GOLD for Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny. Laura kenny is the FIRST British women to win gold in three consecutive games. What an absolute star.

GB Gold 17. Medal 53.

I have watched many madison races and never seen a team dominate it like that. Just brilliant. Arichbald was phenomenal. If there still an indiviudal pursuit she'd win it by miles.

Love this interview - Laura Kenny "I was looking up with 60 laps to go and I hadn't even touched the pedals". (She was going about 60k an hour at the time.)

Oh man that got me. Laura Kenny "It's so hard leaving Albie at home (her son) and I couldn't do it without Katie with me all the time. It's like riding with my sister."

That's gold 11 and medal 14 for the Kennys. They have just gone past Ireland in the all-time Olympic medal table.

While that was going on - the nation's favourite knitter, Tom Daley, qualified for the 10m individual SF tomorrow in 4th place. Had a couple of ropey dives and a couple of brilliant ones. Will need to go perfect tomorrow to have a chance of beating the Chinese.

Katy Marchant through to the next round of the sprint - which will be tomorrow.

And Jack Carlin wins the sprint bronze medal - that's number 54 for the team. The Dutch win gold and silver and will be favourites for the Keirin too.

Drama in the modern pentathlon - German Annika Schleu who had a massive lead going into the riding has a horse that is just refusing to jump and is out! Poor poor woman in absolute floods.

That does mean Kate French of GB will be going into the laser run in fifth place just 15 seconds off the gold. Going to be a very exciting race in half an hour or so.

Showjumping team qualifying also starting now.

OK so for the laser run in the pentathlon - they do 4 laps of 800 metres and have to stop to shoot laser guns before every lap. They have to hit 5 targets before being able to move on (or wait for 50 seconds to elapse). It's another really mad race. And often v entertaining.

If you think this is mad - at the Paris Olympics they're going to have to do all five disciplines in 90 minutes. No idea how that's going to work.

Kate French just needs to not mess up her last shooting round and she's going to win gold here.

It's GOLD for Kate French. Incredibly impressive laser run and won comfortably in the end.

Number 18 for GB and Medal 54.

That might be GB's luckiest gold of these games. Annika Schleu of Germany would have won comfortably if her horse hadn't refused to jump. Still a very strong performance from Kate French.

It's actually medal 55. Lost count. For those asking about why modern pentathlon is a sport - Baron de Courbetin who started the modern Olympics invented it and, so the story goes, did so based on the skills required for a soldier to escape from behind enemy lines.

Now a great athletics programme for the next few hours. Men's 4x400 heats (GB in heat 1) + then men's 5k with Andy Butchart, women's 400m with Jodie Williams; women's 1500m with Laura Muir and then both 4x100 finals which will feature GB teams.

No 4x400 final for the GB men. Our men's 400m is a disagrace at the moment. No one even qualified for the individual.

GB showjumping team qualify for tomorrow's final but our second best rider Scott Brash has withdrawn because his horse has a minor strain so that probably puts the medals out of reach. Sweden look favourties. All their riders jumped clear.

Superb run for Shaunae Miller-Uibo to win the 400m in 48.36. That's both 400m titles to the Bahamas.

Allyson Felix won a bronze in her FIFTH Olympics games to become the most successful track athlete in Olympic history with 10 medals. She goes past the great Merlene Ottey who won hers over SIX games.

6th for Jodie Williams who equals her personal best from the SF. That is huge progression from someone who only switched to 400m a few years ago. She can get better for Paris.

Come on Laura Muir. On paper she's third fastest in the field behind Kipyegon and Hassan. Hassan is going for leg 2 of her 1500k/5k/10k treble.

YES LAURA MUIR. What a brilliant silver. Finally after so many 4th and 5ths she gets the medal. Kipyegon won gold. Hassan couldn't do three events.

I scared my whole family screaming through that. That's a new British record time for Muir. 3.54.50. Medal 56.

Dina Asher-Smith and the 4x100 team coming up. On paper they should be 2nd or 3rd behind Jamaica and maybe the US but anything can happen in a relay. Would so love Dina to get a medal after the week she's had.

Well GB came third but I'm worried we'll get DQ'd on the first change.

Phew - it's now official - GB have the bronze - that was a supertight change. Jamaica won the gold as expected but no WR. US got silver. Dina has a medal! Medal 57.

Right. This men's 4x100 could literally go anywhere. Whoever does the best changes win.

Argh. GB men come 2nd by one hundreth of a second. (As long as they're not DQ'd). Italy just run us down.

Still that's my favourite day so far. Medals for Dina and Laura Muir. Golds for Kate French, Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny. All of them such heros of British sport. 18 golds, 58 medals. (60 is now guaranteed.) I'm emotionally exhausted.

Wrapping up Day 14. GB now have 18 gold and 58 medals. Compared to previous games at this point:

Rio: 24 golds and 60 medals
London: 25 golds and 57 medals
Beijing: 18 golds and 46 medals

The London medal total just about within reach.

And this is now the 4th best games for GB with 58 medals going clear of Beijing. It's also the 2nd best games away from home after Rio.

Back later with the Day 15 preview. A big day with over 100 medals awarded. And GB can win some of them in cycling, athletics, diving, pentathlon, boxing and showjumping....

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