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Let's Catch Up: 'Super Saturday' For Brits; 'World's Fastest Man' Coming Up

By Mark Memmott
Published August 5, 2012 at 6:18 AM MDT
Jessica Ennis of Great Britain 脗 celebrates after winning gold Saturday in the heptathlon on Day 8 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Jessica Ennis of Great Britain 脗 celebrates after winning gold Saturday in the heptathlon on Day 8 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Good morning.

While Bill takes a much-deserved mid-Olympics day off, we'll aim to keep up with what's going on in London.

He already covered much of Saturday's big news, (which brought Phelps an 18th gold medal for his part in the winning 4x100m medley relay). And Bill posted about the record that the .

Also Saturday, the home team had a huge day. As , Team Great Britain "snagged three track and field gold medals." And with another three wins on Saturday 鈥� in rowing and track cycling 鈥� it was Great Britain's "most successful day at an Olympics in 104 years," .

There's a lot going on today, of course.

This hour, the women's marathon will finish up. Later this morning (East Coast time, that is), there's the men's final in tennis. And then, around 4:45 p.m. ET, there's the most exciting sub-10 seconds in sports: the men's 100-meter final in track-and-field. That's when we learn who the latest "world's fastest man" is. Will it be Jamaica's Usain Bolt once again?

Saturday night, by the way, . American Carmelita Jeter was second.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists 鈥� helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
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