OLYMPICS: Day three update

Day three of the 2008 Beijing Olympics saw Great Britain pick up their second gold of the games as Rebecca Adlington became the first British woman in 48 years to strike gold in the swimming pool, winning the 400m freestyle with teammate Jo Jackson taking bronze.

Also in the swimming pool, Windsor SC's Simon Burnett was part of the GB 4x100m freestyle team alongside Adam Brown, Ben Hockin and Ross Davenport that knocked a massive five seconds off the British record (3.12.87) in yesterday's heats, but were a disappointing eighth in this morning's final.

In a close final where the USA just pipped France for gold, Burnett said: "Another record and another great performance by an emerging sprint team."

In this morning's rowing, Sarah Winckless helped the women's eight to second place in their heat, qualifying for tomorrow's semi-final and following Marlow rower Zac Purchase through to the next round.

Marlow's Katherine Grainger and Annie Vernon also rowed thier way into the final of the women's quad sculls yesterday, winning their heat to book a place in Sunday's final.

The hockey contingent enjoyed mixed starts to the Olympics as Slough Ladies duo Kate Walsh and Alex Danson - passed fit to play after injury two weeks ago - were humiliated 5-1 by Germany last night.

Captain Walsh blamed missed chances for the team's loss. She said: "It was disappointing because we unpicked them at times and it was just scoring those chances when we had them."

However, GB men got off to a winning start this morning, beating Pakistan 4-2 with ex-Maidenhead HC star Matt Daly bagging the winner. Richard Mantell also played his part.

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