OLYMPICS LONDON 2012: Games day eight in pictures

By Sportsbeat staff, London 2012

IT'S DAY eight and the athletics have arrived at London 2012. Medal hopeful Jessica Ennis will get her heptathlon campaign underway and Christine Ohuruogu will also feature in the 400m.

Elsewhere Rebecca Adlington looks to defend her 800m freestyle crown and Victoria Pendleton looks to get over yesterday's disappointment with a medal in the keirin.

At Eton Dorney Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins provide Team GB with their best medal hope in the double sculls.

WELSH WARRIOR: Welshman Andrew Selby is into the quarter-finals in the flyweight division after defeating Kazakhstan's Ilyas Suleimenov

LEADING: Jessica Ennis shows her approval after finishing the first day of the heptathlon in the lead

BEAMING BECKY: Rebecca Adlington shows off her bronze medal from the 800m freestyle

CANNED: Canada's Christine Sinclair scores a free-kick as they beat Team GB's women's football team 2-0

LONG FINAL: Great Britain's Greg Rutherford (pictured above) and team-mate Chris Tomlinson are both comfortably into the long jump final

SEMI FINALISTS: Team GB duno Ross Murray (pictured above) and Andrew Baddeley have both qualified for the 1500m semi-finals

MAGIC MURRAY: Andy Murray beats Serbia's Novak Djokovic in straight sets to set-up a final showdown with Roger Federer

BRONZE FOR BECKY: Rebecca Adlington waves to the crowd after having to settle for bronze in the 800m freestyle

GOLDEN GIRL: Victoria Pendleton is all smiles after winning Olympic keirin gold for Great Britain

STAR-LING: Hannah Starling (pictured above) has qualified for the semi-finals of the 3m women's springboard along with team-mate Rebecca Gallantree

KEIRIN GOLD: Victoria Pendleton celebrates winning gold in the keirin at the Velodrome

DOWN BUT NOT OUT: Lynne Beattie falls during Team GB's women's Group A volleyball defeat to the Dominican Republic

WHEELS OF GOLD: Great Britain's Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter Kennaugh celebrate their team pursuit victory

FLYING HIGH: Ed Clancy with the union jack flag as he celebrates team pursuit glory

SAILING AWAY: Ben Ainslie is in pole position to claim gold after today's finn race at Weymouth

TEAM OUT: Great Britain's women's table tennis team are comprehensively beaten by North Korea

WORLD RECORD: Team GB's women set a new world record in the team pursuit qualification round

GOLD RECORD: Team GB's men pursuit team smash the world record on route to defending their Olympic crown

ANOTHER WIN: Ashley Jackson celebartes with his team-mates after Team GB's men's latest win in hockey's Group A

BRONZE BRYANT: Great Britain's Karina Bryant receives her bronze medal for her performance in the judo +78kg class

PEDAL POWER: Team GB's Victoria Pendleton follows the pacer in the keirin before winning her heat

FANTASTIC FREDDIE - Great Britain's Freddie Evans beats Egidijus Kavaliauskas of Lithuania to march on into the quarter-finals

JUDO JOY: Karina Bryant celebrates with her coach Luke Preston after winning her women's +78kg bronze meal match

HAMMER TIME: Alex Smith qualifies for the hammer final with a distance of 74.71 metres

TOP AFTER TWO: Jess Ennis leads the way after the first morning of the heptathlon. Katarina Johnson-Thompson lies third and Louise Hazell is 37th

CRASH LANDING: Birhan Getahun of Ethiopia has a nasty fall during his 3000m steeplechase heat. Tean GB's Stuart Stokes also failed to qualify

DELIGHT: Alan Campbell shows his delight at winning bronze for Great Britain in the single sculls

FIST PUMP: Great Britain's men's pair George Nash and William Satch with their Olympic bronze medals

GOLDEN GIRLS: Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins proudly show off their double sculls gold medals

ALL THROUGH: Christine Ohuruogu and team-mates Lee McConnell and Shana Cox are all into the 400m semi-finals

PAIR OF BRONZE: George Nash and William Satch row brilliantly to claim a bronze medal in the men's pair

THUMBS UP: Team GB's men's 4x100m medley team celebrate after beating Australia in their heat

FIFTH BEST: Team GB's men's quadruple sculls look exhausted after finishing out of the medals in the final

OUT: Great Britain's Chris Sherringham is beaten in the last 16 by Russian Alexander Mikhaylin

GREENE LIGHT: Team GB athletics captain Dai Greene is safely through to the 400m hurdles semi-finals along with team-mates Jack Green and Rhys Williams

THROUGH THE FOGG: Dan Fogg qualifies for the 1500m final but Great Britain team-mate David Davies is out

WIN: Great Britain's Karina Bryant defeats Algeria's Sonia Asselah by ippon to progress to the last 16

FRAN-TASTIC: Fran Halsall prepares to win her heat in the 50m freestyle at the Aquatics Centre

DEFEAT: Great Britain's women's handball team salute the crowd after losing to Angola in Group A 31-25

GREAT START: Jess Ennis leads the way with 1195 points after the heptathlon 100m hurdles

FLYING YAMILE: Great Britain's Yamile Aldama qualifies for the women's triple jump final

MAN MOUNTAIN: Guam's Ricardo Blas Jr looks up after winning his men's +100kg elimination round of 32 judo match

GONE: Larry Godfrey is out of the archery after a defeat to Malaysia's Asian champion Khairul Anuar Mohamad

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