By Boat, By Cycle and By Foot

More medals on Sunday for Team GB on the water:

Ben Ainslie won sailing gold in the single-handed dinghy (Finn class) (that's his third consecutive gold);

Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb & Pippa Wilson won sailing gold in the keelboat (Yngling), the Sarahs repeating their win in Athens;

Mark Hunter & Zac Purchase won gold in the rowing double scull (lightweight).

The women’s rowing quadruple scull won silver for Annie Vernon, Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger. In an exciting race they led until the final couple of hundred metres when the Chinese team eased ahead. The British team looked so disappointed when they were interviewed afterwards - that's silver in three consecutive Olympics, with gold ever-elusive.

The men's Eight's also won silver in another exciting race with Canada racing out in front and staying there, with the British team inching forward all the time, but just not enough. Well done lads!

Back to the velodrome for a guaranteed gold and silver in the women's 3000m individual pursuit since the final was between two Britons - Rebecca Romero and Wendy Houvenaghel. Rebecca won silver in the women's rowing quadruple in Athens but switched to cycling after injury and that gave her the spur to press for gold. Rebecca won gold just ahead of Wendy, so congratulations to both!

I stayed up into the wee small hours to watch the women's marathon and the ongoing saga of Paula Radcliffe. Paula hasn't been well recently and it was questionable whether she should even run, but this is the Olympics and, after Athens, she needed to finish, which I'm pleased to say she did. She looked a bit doubtful a couple of times but she pressed on with a slightly limping gait and finished 23rd. Mara Yamauchi finished 6th and Liz Yelling finished 26th despite a tumble that left her back and side badly bruised. Well done to all three!

Now, I don't want to throw a jinx or anything, but when was the last time that, after a week of competition, we were third in the medals table? Considering the size of our country and the size of our team, that's not bad going!

Country		G	S	B	T
China		27	13	9	49
USA		17	18	22	57
GB		11	5	7	23
Germany		9	5	6	20
Australia		8	10	11	29