London 2012 Day 5

Happy Birthday Mrs L and a perfect present from Andy Murray as he progresses to the quarter-finals after being a set down to beat Marcos Baghdatis. Another perfect present in the form of Britain's first gold of the games came from Helen Glover and Heather Stanning who won the women's rowing pair. Not exactly the same celebrations from the men's eight though, they'd hoped for gold, expected at least silver, but collected bronze they made a superb effort to come through and lead the Germans, but as the Germans came back through that effort probably cost them the silver as they were then passed by Canada too, so forty-year-old Greg Searle, who won gold in 1992 and bronze in 1996, adds another bronze to his collection.

Today's TV shot is of Bradley Wiggins just over a week ago he was winning some wee race in France, then on day one of the games he was doing his level best to get Mark Cavendish into a sprint finish in the road race and today he won gold in the cycling time trial with fellow Brit Chris Froome claiming the bronze. Reckon this cycling lark must be a bit of a soft touch if you can compete in all those races and still look so cool.

Finally Michael Jamieson won silver in the 200m breaststroke reducing his own British record set yesterday in the semi-finals to 2:07.43.