1136 GMT: The MOUNTAIN BIKING competitors have now got to a stretch with spectator access and it is good to see that the people of Essex have turned out in force to see their local Olympic event.
1133 GMT: Noone is lining the route so far for the mountain biking, but that's hardly surprising as much of the route is through woods and through fields - genuine farmland.
1130 GMT: They'off in the first line up of the women's MOUNTAIN BIKING competion.
1119 GMT: Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia, the 2009 world champion, leads after 45km, ahead of Australia's Jared Tallent. Britain's Dominic King is last, meaning he has the embarrassment of having been lapped more than once by the leaders.
1116 GMT: The crowd has swelled a lot around the route of 50km WALK, with two laps of the 2km circuit remaining for the leaders.
1100 GMT: Here's a recap of events so far this morning:
+ Hosts Britain take their gold medal tally to 26 as Ed McKeever wins the men's KAYAK singles 200m
+ The other three golds at Eton Dorney go to Yury Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko of Russia, Lisa Carrington of New Zealand and Yuri Cheban of Ukraine.
+ David Svoboda of the Czech Republic leads the MODERN PENTATHLON standings after the fencing tournament that opens the gruelling all day event
+ Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia leads the men's 50km WALK after 40km
+ Qui Bo and Lin Yue of China head the qualifiers for tonight's men's 10km platform DIVING final after this morning's semi-finals, though British medal hope Tom Daley also performs well.
1051 GMT: AFP has sent intrepid reporter Justin Davis into rural Essex to see the Olympic women's MOUNTAIN BIKING competition on the new Hadleigh Farm course.
Did you go by tractor, Justin? Only kidding, though life in Essex has a reputation in Britain for being a major contrast to sophisticated London.
The event starts in half an hour's time.
1044 GMT: Team GB medal hope Tom Daley is safely through to tonight's men's 10m platform DIVING after a strong final jump in this morning's semi-finals gives him an aggregate score of 521.10.
1039 GMT: The route of the ATHLETICS men's 50km walk is lined with spectators all the way, but the crowds are noticeably thinner than the huge numbers who turned out to watch other public Olympic events such as the women's marathon, the CYCLING road races and the TRIATHLON.
Perhaps that's because walking lacks the glamour of those other events. Tomorrow's men's marathon should attract a bigger throng.
1036 GMT: In the DIVING, Britain's Tom Daley moves up to fourth place after five dives, with the top three places unchanged.
1027 GMT: The 50km walkers are doing 25 laps of a 2km circuit along The Mall, round the Queen Victoria Memorial, up Constitution Hill and back again.
They will go past Buckingham Palace 50 times, ie 25 times on the way out and 25 times on the way back, so it will look like Groundhog Day for anyone watching from the Queen's official residence.
1020 GMT: An update from the ATHLETICS men's 50km walk. After 30km of their waddle around London's Green Park and St James's Park, reigning world champion Sergey Bakulin has retained the lead but Russian compatriot and 2009 titleholder Sergey Kirdyapkin has dropped back to sixth place. Erick Barrondo of Guatemala is second with 20km to go.
1013 GMT: In DIVING, Lin Yue and Qui Bo of China head the standings after four of the six dives in the men's 10m platform semi-finals. David Boudia of the US is third and British star Tom Daley in second place.
1004 GMT: In the MODERN PENTATHLON, world number one Aleksander Lesun has started well in the opening fencing phase and is currently leading the standings with 904 points after 21 victories and six defeats,
0950 GMT: Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu of Belarus paddle to the silver and Team GB's Liam Heath and John Schofield collect the bronze.
0949 GMT: GOLD MEDAL FOR YURY POSTRIGAY AND ALEXANDER DYACHENKO OF RUSSIA IN THE MEN'S KAYAK DOUBLE 220M
0939 GMT: London Mayor Boris Johnson tweets to point out that Ed McKeever's victory means Britain's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has another name to add to her poem 'Translating the British, 2012', which mentions the host nation's top performers. Britain now has 26 gold medals.
0923 GMT: Ukraine's Inna Osypenko-Radomska took silver with Natasa Douchev-Janics of Hungary winning bronze.
0921 GMT: GOLD MEDAL FOR LISA CARRINGTON OF NEW ZEALAND IN WOMEN'S KAYAK SINGLES 200M
0911 GMT: Men's platform DIVING semi-finals are underway at the Aquatics Centre in London's Olympic Park
0903 GMT: Jevgeni Shulkin of Lithuania and Ivan Shtyl of Russia secure the silver and bronze medals in the men's canoe singles 200m.
0858 GMT: More from Craig Reedie, now an IOC Vice President but chairman of the British Olympic Association when his vision for London 2012 began.
Eaton says the Scot's contribution to the London Olympics began in January 1994 when he chaired an unheralded meeting at the University of East London back which sparked the vision.
"It was effectively a de-brief of why Manchester lost the Olympic bid to Sydney the previous July - without that being in the minutes. So it has been an 18 and a half year project as far as I am concerned," Reedie says.
"Instead of trying to run with a provincial city ? Birmingham once and Manchester twice ? it was decided we would go with London.
0856 GMT: GOLD MEDAL FOR YURI CHEBAN OF UKRAINE IN THE MEN'S CANOE SINGLES 200M
0854 GMT: The London Olympics have been a triumph of the imagination, says Sir Craig Reedie, the main architect behind the city's innovatively successful Games.
"It was a grey December afternoon in a disused greyhound stadium in Hackney when I first looked at the site in East London way back in November 2002," Reedie told AFP correspondent Richard Eaton.
"I thought you need some imagination ? and look at what?s been done! I am absolutely thrilled at the way we have done it."
0847 GMT: After his victory, McKeever's first emotion was relief, he says. "It seems silly but I'm just happy that I could do in front of a home crowd."
0844 GMT: McKeever admits the prospect of competing in the Olympic final made him excited from the time he woke up this morning.
"I was like a kid at Christmas," he tells BBC TV.
0842 GMT: Silver for Saul Craviotto Rivero of Spain with Canada's Mark de Jonge taking the bronze in an event making its Olympic debut in London.
0838 GMT: GOLD MEDAL FOR ED MCKEEVER OF TEAM GB IN MEN'S KAYAK SINGLES 200M
0821 GMT: Men's KAYAK singles 200m final about to start at Eton Dorney
0815 GMT: In ATHLETICS, two Russians have taken an early lead in the men's 50k walk. After the first 5km, reigning world titleholder Sergey Bakulin and 2009 world champion Sergey Kirdyapkin are heading the pack.
0809 GMT: Some of today's many highlights:
+ ATHLETICS: Usain Bolt bids for third gold medal in final of men's 4x100m relay (2000 GMT)
+ 10,000m champion Mo Farah goes for a second gold, in the 5,000m (1830 GMT)
+ Caster Semenya among the contenders in women's 800m final (1900 GMT)
+ The men's 50k walk, already underway (0800 GMT), and the women's 20k walk, this afternoon (1600 GMT), take the Olympics to the streets of London
+ FOOTBALL: Brazil and Mexico face off at Wembley in men's football final (1400 GMT)
+ Five men's BOXING golds to be won tonight (1930 to 2115 GMT)
+ Four CANOE and KAYAK finals this morning (0830 to 0941 GMT)
+ Netherlands face Germany in the men's HOCKEY final after thrashing Team GB by 9-2 in a semi-final (1900 GMT)
+ CYCLING: Women's mountain bike final (1130 GMT)
+ Men's 10m platform DIVING final (1930 GMT)
+ Medals on offer in the gruelling MODERN PENTATHLON (From 0745 GMT. Concluding combined event 1745 GMT).
0805 GMT: Mind you, only 23 gold medals were awarded last Saturday. Today no fewer than 32 of those shiny orbs will be distributed, with live Olympic action scheduled from now until late tonight, when boxing and taekwondo finals are timetabled to continue until well after 10pm (2100 GMT). Medals aplenty!
Keep refreshing this Live Report for all the Olympic action as it happens.
0803 GMT: Last Saturday was "Super Saturday" so let's call today "Sporting Saturday" in honour of the competitors who have done their best at the Olympics but didn't manage to win a medal.
Welcome to AFP's Olympics 2012 Live Report on August 11, as Britain's Somalia-born men's 10,000m winner Mo Farah bids to complete a distance running double by challenging for gold in the 5,000m.
Stand by for a rundown of the key events to look forward to today, when medals galore will be at stake..
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympics-2012-live-report-075102827--oly.html
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