Coverage of the Olympics continues, presented by Sue Barker. There's more athletics, as well as boxing, taekwondo, hockey and volleyball.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt (pictured) is the man to beat in the men's 200m final. With world champion Tyson Gay not competing in the event, the biggest threat to Bolt's gold medal aspirations comes from Gay's fellow American Shawn Crawford, the defending Olympic champion.
The women's 200m reaches the semi-final stage with Jamaican world champion Veronica Campbell and the USA's Allyson Felix, a former world champion and Athens Olympic silver medallist, both expected to progress. Meanwhile, local hero Liu Xiang and world-record holder Dayron Robles compete for a place in the men's 110m hurdles final.
The athletics timetable is as follows:
1.15pm men's 5,000m round one 2.30pm men's 110m hurdles semi-finals 2.55pm women's 200m semi-finals 3.20pm men's 200m final
Boxing
The middleweights are in quarter-final action today and a win for Britain's James DeGale, assuming he has reached this stage, will earn him a bronze medal at least.
At 4pm the action switches to taekwondo, hockey and volleyball.
Taekwondo
The medals are decided in the women's -49kg and men's -58kg categories.
Women's hockey
It's semi-final day at the Beijing Olympic Green Hockey Stadium. Olympic semi-finals have never been happy occasions for Great Britain's women - they have reached three and lost the lot - but a place in the last four in Beijing would represent a significant achievement as Team GB finished eighth in Sydney in 2000 and did not even qualify for Athens four years ago. The four teams seeded to reach the semi-finals are the Netherlands, Argentina, Germany and Australia.
Volleyball
The men's semi-final line up will be complete after today's quarter-finals.
I thought he commentary for the opening ceremony was appaling. It was like being at a wonderful opera sat next to 3 idiots talking over the beautiful music. Subtitles would have been vastly superior.
The highlight program, my fist attempt to see the ceremony only provided minimal coverage. I believe Sir Redgrave got more time. The recording of the full ceremony, which repeat was very welcome was so marred by the commentators. Their commentary was laughable at times. 'It's worth mentioning'
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