Sunday 5th August 2012

And so to 'Super Saturday' as the less imaginative sections had called it, and on this day Britain won 6 gold medals, three of them track and field in the space of 45 minutes. It seemed that the day could not get any better.

I watched the trampoline; seeing something that on the face of it is quite simple, jumping up and down, doing tumbles and twists. but the supreme athletes made it all look so simple and thoroughly enjoyable. Canada took the gold in that. Switch over the TV to see British women win team pursuit gold in the 3km. The won the semi-final and the final, in world record ties. In fact their last six races all had been won in world record time. At the end, Paul McCartney led the crowd in a chorus of 'Hey Jude'. You couldn't make this stuff up. Swith channels again to see the athletics and Michael Phelps win an 18th and final gold medal in the 100m medley relay. That is 22 Olympic medals for him over three games, and 18 of them gold, double more than any other Olympian.



The the athletics; three golds and the 70,000 in the stadium going mad. Even the British who, and lets be honest here, thought that the whole games was going to fall flat on its face have been caught up in it all. No one is watching much else, and as Andy Salzman says, ITV could be showing 24 hard core porn and people still wouldn't be watching.....

"Two rowing golds and a track cycling gold set the tone on "Super Saturday" before Britain's athletes took centre stage in a golden hour for the sport.

Heptathlete Jessica Ennis, long jumper Greg Rutherford and 10,000m runner Mo Farah all won in the Olympic Stadium.

Team GB won the Olympic title in the men's coxless four for the fourth successive Games

Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking won the women's lightweight double sculls after powering away from China

In cycling, the women's team pursuit trio set a new world record to clinch gold.

Ennis began a stunning 45 minutes of triple athletics gold in the evening by rounding off her heptathlon victory in the 800m.

She had led her rivals after the four events on day one, before as good as sealing gold with strong performances in the long jump and javelin on day two.

Within minutes Greg Rutherford had won gold in the men's long jump with a leap of 8.31m, Britain's first Olympic gold in the event since Lynn Davies in 1964.

"What a night for British athletics," Rutherford told BBC Sport. "Three gold medals. It's absolutely incredible."

The hat-trick was completed by Mo Farah, who became the first British athlete to win Olympic gold at 10,000m.

"I just can't believe it. It's never going to get any better than this. It's the best moment of my life," he said."

The only downer came right at the end of the day as the GB men's football team follower the women out of the games, the men losing on penalties to South Korea. Oh well.

What else happened? well, sat in the garden, did some exercise, weeded the front garden, made bread rolls. Relaxed. That's about it.