"Super Saturday" was always going to be difficult to repeat in the athletics ...
Still no-one has found the keys to beating Mo, despite him falling. Once again he toyed with them.
In a dramatic final round (the final rounds are really delivering in Rio!) Greg produced his best jump and claimed bronze just after Henderson had snatched the gold. Lawson then thought he had it won with what appeared, at first sight, to be an 8.40-ish jump but a trailing hand in the sand left him very confused when the scoreboard flashed up 7.78 instead.
Jess made a brave effort to retain her crown doing very little wrong but Nafi Thiam played a blinder. Now, if only Thiam could run ... (just like, if only Kat could throw). Jess looked genuinely pleased with her silver.
It seems it was the deepest heptathlon of all-time. From the IAAF report - "Ikauniece-Admidina finished with a highly respectable score of 6617. Only once before, in Barcelona 1992, has a score that high not been enough for an Olympic medal ... In a competition of unprecedented depth, six women surpassed 6500 for the first time in history. Best marks-for-place were set for sixth, seventh, eighth, 10th, 11th, and every other position from 13th downwards."
Terrific run by Matt Hudson-Smith to reach the final. He goes 6th on the UK all-time list with his 44.48.
The top 10 on that UK list are covered by just 0.21s. A little test for you to mull over whilst Crammy & Paula are waffling to fill air-time during the women's marathon this afternoon ... Can you name them all? I think I would have got 8 of them (I forgot one from last year and one from about a decade ago is tricky.) Bonus marks for getting 7 or more of the times correct too.