T’S Super Saturday Two in the Olympic Stadium as Mighty Mo goes for his second gold of the games.
Just one week after making history by becoming Britain’s first 10,000m winner, Mo Farah is back in the packed-out stadium for the 5,000m.
The atmosphere is electric and deafening – the Tannoy operator calling out the names of runners is drowned out as he announces Mo.
On the Press benches up in the gods, to have any chance of being heard above the din, Brendan Foster and Steve Cram bring out the microphones the BBC normally use for broadcasting from helicopters.
With two laps to go, 5ft 8in Mo hits the front. Each time a challenger comes forward to take his spot, Mo simply picks up the pace and the rest fall away. With 70 metres left Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel powers up to try to overtake but, summoning every last ounce of energy left in his body, Mo hurtles forward to win in 13mins 41.6secs.
The stadium explodes as Mo, his mouth open in astonishment, slaps himself on the head and forms his arms into his famous Mobot celebration.
He says: “I knew I just had to keep going. I just want to thank everyone who helped me.”
The crowd is also raising the roof at the Aquatics Centre as Tom Daley reaches the final rounds of the men’s 10m platform dive.
Teen heart-throb Tom, 18, briefly heads the leaderboard after a stunning back three-and-a-half-turn somersault and hardly makes a splash as he enters the water, which earns him a 90.75 to give a grand total of 556.95.
Watching the action, David Beckham leaps to his feet to lead the cheering for Tom, who has battled his way up the scoreboard.
A medal is assured, it’s just a question of which colour. America’s David Boudia nails his best dive of the night to take gold while Chinese world champion Qiu Bo can only manage silver.
But Daley is delighted. He says: “With the men’s platform competition, bronze is almost gold and anything above is platinum and beyond.” Back at the stadium, it’s the 4x100m relay final – the race that Usain Bolt has hinted may be the last time the world sees him compete in an Olympics.
For the second Games in a row Bolt anchors the Jamaican team – and as he sprints the last leg, the team’s own world record is smashed to smithereens.
Crossing the line in 36.84secs, Bolt is now the proud holder of six gold medals from two Olympic Games – and he has broken four world records.
Later, after collecting his latest neckgear – and performing Mo Farah’s “mobot” dance move in a tribute to his British pal – he declares: “It’s always a beautiful feeling to end off like this.”
TRAINEE accountant Ed McKeever has the opposition figured out to win our second gold in kayaking.
On a glorious morning, the sprinter – known as Usain Bolt on water – is cheered home by 28,000 supporters to win in a blistering 36.2 seconds.
Ed, 28, from Bath, beats Spain’s Saul Rivero by three tenths of a second.
He says: “People compare me to Usain Bolt. Now I have the gold to go with it, I’m willing to accept comparisons!”
Jon Schofield and Liam Heath paddle to bronze in the K2 kayak doubles 200m sprint at Eton Dorney.
Bantamweight Luke Campbell weeps tears of joy as he wins gold over Ireland’s John Joe Nevin at the ExCel centre.
Campbell, 24, from Hull, locks himself away from his family for a month before the Games. He makes good on his promise to his two-year-old son, Leo, that he would bring home gold.
Brits Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale are in the top ten of the modern pentathlon after swimming, fencing and riding, but both drop out of contention after the swimming and showjumping stages.
Our men’s hockey team finish fourth after losing 3-1 to Australia in the battle for bronze.
