9.46 – … and lean. That’s good, stretch it right out. Feel  the bur… oh, hello.

You join us at the start of what promises to be another action-packed day of Olympic fun in London.

We’re just getting Team TheScore.ie limbered up for action. There’s a lot of sore bodies after our marathon of coverage yesterday.

Sean Farrell here to get the relay underway. We’ll be keeping a close eye on the Irish athletes dotted around east London and Weymouth and will bring you all the other headlines – after all, it turns out that there are more countries than just ourselves in action.

9.58 – There are a handful of events already on the move. We’re keeping a close eye on the Beeb, who have moved mercilessly from Team GB losing to Bulgaria in the indoor volleyball to their female archers, who currently trail Russia at Lord’s.

The first Irish athletes will be getting underway in the next hour. While you’re waiting; why not jump into the visual glory of Day one, in pictures or engross yourself in the Olympic-themed Sunday papers with some of our favourite sportswriting of the week.

10.03 – Right, enough of that. We’re off to the Aquatic Centre where Melanie Nocher is making her way out to the deck for heat two of the 100m backstroke.

There she is in lane four…

10.09 – That time from Melanie Nocher was 0.5 seconds off her personal best. She is 10th at the minute with three heats still to go. Lets hope she gets a chance to hit the PB in a semi-final.

At the minute, though, it doesn’t look likely.

10.29 – News from poolside is that.. well, read for yourself.

10.35 – Okay, we’re knee-deep in the heats for the men’s 200m freestyle. Ryan Lochte is looking for gold number two. This is heat three.

10.49 – With the men out of the way, there’s no time for the water to settle before we’re into the 100m breaststroke  heats.

Sycerika McMahon is coming up soon against Leisel Jones, but while you wait, have a look at this interview NBC did with Ryan Lochte’s Havana-born mother. Nice woman.

11.09 – Here’s your not-so-exclusive post race reaction from Ms Nocher.

11.17 – We’re sticking with action in the pool because the men’s 100m backstroke heats are coming to a conclusion. Team GB’s Lee Tancock places second in his heat behind the most French name I’ve ever heard: Camille LaCourt.

It looks like Lochte’s main competitor in this event will be his fellow Yank, Matt Grevers, who won his heat in 52.92.

11.29 – Coming up next are the heats of the women’s 800m freestyle. Where Grainne Murphy – hailing from Wexford, swimming out of Limerick – is Ireland’s big hope.

11.41 – I’ll say one thing about the 400m swim; it gets a little awkward when everybody is left waiting for the back markers to finish. Turkmenistan’s Jennet Saryyeva came last in her three-competitor heat, left to swim the last two lengths on her lonesome.

Sagmeister and Rodriguez, having battled it out for first and second watched on sans goggles as she eventually made it home. The worst thing was, the racers in the next heat were already on the deck eager to get swimming.

GB’s reigning 400m Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington is now in action.

12.02 – France, South Africa and Italy take heat one in that order. The French sprinters touching home in 3:13.38, well off world record pace, but we’ll soon find out what the Australians and Americans can do.

12.17 – Lets see if we can clear our lungs of chlorine for a few minutes and see what other sports this jamboree has to offer on day two. Eurosport are trying to convince us that the 10m air pistol is an actual event, but we’re not buying it.

Ireland’s Camilla Speirs has been awarded a score of 47.6 in her outing in dressage with Portersize Just a Jiff. She sits 15th overall.

12.32 – The women’s cycling road race is at full pelt. They are almost through the first quarter of the 140km run, but nobody has been able to sustain a breakaway. The entire peloton of 66 riders are snaking their way together along the Thames.

12.52 – There won’t be a sheep shorn on the south island of New Zealand tonght!

Their women’s hockey side have won the trans-Tasman battle with Australia by one goal to nil. Cathryn Finlayson scored the only goal of the game in the third minute as the Blacksticks dominated possession, but allowed Australia create the better chances in the rest of the game.

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13.25 – And if anyone knows how treacherous the road race course will be after a bit of rain, it’s Fabian Cancellara who looked like a contestant on Total Wipeout yesterday when he ploughed head-first into a barrier. The good news is that it now looks like he’ll be fit to defend his Olympic time trial title next week, but he still had a request for today’s spectators.

13.37 – Today’s lesson in spoof comes to via Lord Sebastian Coe himself. A lot of questions are (rightly) being asked about the empty seats in some of the venues. I mean, who has tickets to see Michael Phelps v Ryan Lochte and doesn’t use them?

Anyway, Coe reckons that those empty seats don’t really exist: “Let us put this in perspective. Those venues are stuffed to the gunnels. The public are in there.”

Full story here >

14.12 – The men’s 66kg judo quarter-finals appear to have descended into farce. World champion Masashi Ebinuma appeared to have been eliminated by Cho Jun-Ho of South Korea after their bout went to a judges’ decision. Bizarrely the judges awarded the fight to Cho and then changed their minds following the intervention of the International Judo Federation.

Crazy stuff but Ebinuma survives and moves into the semi-finals.

14.13 – O’Leary and Burrows are still trucking along in the men’s star but they’re not in top five as far as I can see. Germany look to be doing well as do the Portuguese crew.

14.31 – Afternoon all, Sean here again; passing the chicken-fillet baguette like a baton to Niall Kelly as he trundles through the door for a well earned break.

His head has been wrecked these past minutes trying to make sense of the Star class sailing. I’m here to clarify matters… Ireland ain’t winning.

14.43 – Just when I was about to get engrossed in the water polo, I was reminded that the self-styled dream team of USA men’s basketball. They will tip off against France in the coming minutes.

My excitement isn’t shared universally, though. Even Kobe, LeBron and Russell can’t manage to fill every seat at these Games.

14.58 – Absolutely brilliant to see an Irish flag atop the leading split time when the next man comes out trying to beat it. It’s a very, very good time from Rheinisch and hopefully he can keep it…

Belgium’s Doby is currently on the water and he threatened the leader, but lost control half way down his run and (after a penalty) must settle for 92.74.

That’s nine of the 22 competitors gone. The top 15 will go through – taking the best time from two runs.

15.03 – Rheinisch’s time has been beaten by New Zealand’s Mike Dawson.

Staying on the water, but drifting down to Weymouth… it seems I was a little hasty saying that Peter O’Leary and David Burrows were not winning. They have jumped majestically from 14th to second. The race is not quite over yet, let’s hope they can push on from there.

15.22 – Rheinisch news: The great man has slipped down to fifth. Spain’s Samuel Hernanz chalked up a time of 87.07 while Mike Kurt Mateusz Polaczyk and Helmut Oblinger have also gone quicker than our boy.

Ah well, it was nice while it lasted… and, of course, we have another run to go today and then a semi-final in midweek. Qualification is all that matters.

15.34 – The women’s road-race is nearing a sodden end. With 2.5km to go we have three breaking away with the peloton 40 seconds behind.

Lizzie Armitstead of Team GB is in third, behind a Dutch and Belarussian rider. Hold on to your hats..

15.39 – Marianne Voss takes god after 140km for the Netherlands. Lizzie Armitstead claims a first medal of the games for Team GB and in third, having led for much on the run-in, is Belarussian Olga Zabelinskaya.

Great finish in the rain, shall we celebrate (with) Dutch Gold?

15.44 – Over on the canoeing course, Eoin Rheinisch is sixth overall with all competitors having taken their first run.

They go for a second round this afternoon, unless ten men go faster than him in that run, he’ll be in the semi-final.

16.17 – At last! If you’re near a TV get RTE on now, they have sensational commentary to accompany USA v France.

“Dunk it down – Michelle Obama looks happy with that one.”

16.33 – Andy Murray has finally overcome a Swiss tennis player on Centre Court with a 6-3, 6-3 straight sets win over Stanislas Wawrinka to cruise through the first round.

16.45 – Paula Radcliffe is clearly heartbroken about being forced to pull out of the marathon at London 2012 today but she still found time to congratulate Team GB’s first medallist Louise Armistead. Classy.

16.50 – Great news coming out of Weymouth in the Star Class as the team of Peter O’Leary and David Burrows stand second after two of ten races.

The Irish pair are on eight points, just two behind leaders Brazil and four ahead of third placed GB.

Ireland’s consistency has been good in the first two races, finishing second and sixth respectively.

17.10 – A clean run from Eoin Rheinisch but his time of 90.72 is marginally slower than his first run 89.97.

Standing sixth with nine competitors to go, he has made the semi-finals of the K1.

C’mon Ireland!!!

17.17 – There’s a lot of love going around Team USA at the moment with Ryan Lochte and Dwayne Wade falling over themselves to congratulate each other:

17.33 – Ireland’s Eventing team are placed a respectable 10th after the dressage phase of the competition. Camilla Speirs was the highest placed Irish rider on Portersize. Her score of 47.60 sees her hold 27th place overall.

Italy’s Stefano Brecciaroli leads the individual competition with 38.50 points while Germany head the team event.

17.42 – Ten man Senegal have taken a 2-0 lead over Uruguay. Abdoulaye Ba saw a straight red for bringing down Louis Suarez and received a round of applause as he walked off the field.

Fair to say the Wembley crowd would like to see a Senegal win.

17.46 – If you like your tennis with added grunting and shouting, Maria Sharapova is cruising towards a first round win over at a rain sodden Wimbledon.

The Russian took the first set 6-2 and leads 4-0 in the second.

17.57 – While Maria Sharapova coasted through her round one game in the women’s tennis in just over an hour, the second seed Agnieszka Radwanska is out.

The Pole lost 7-5, 6-7, 6-4 to Germany’s Julia Goerges.

18.11 – The Gold Medal match is taking place in the women’s archery team event but the rain is bucketing down.

It doesn’t seem to be having too much of an impact on the archers though as Korea and China are level after two ends at 102 each.

18.20 – RTE’s coverage of the women’s synchronised 3m springboard is a little delayed.

However, it’s no less impressive when you see how in synch the Chinese pair of Zi He and Minxia Wu are.

18.27 – Australia’s Cadel Evans has withdrawn from the Olympic time trial on Wednesday.

Evans struggled through this year’s Tour de France and his withdrawal leaves Michael Rogers as Australia’s only entry in the event.

18.41 – For the seventh Olympics in succession, the South Korean women have emerged victorious in the team archery event.

A nine with the last arrow was enough to give them a one point victory over China.

19.26 – In swimming, it’s been confirmed that both Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps are included in the US 4×100 team tonight.

Next up in the pool is the final of the women’s 100m butterfly. Can anyone beat Dana Vollmer?

19.36 – Dana Vollmer wins gold in the women’s 100m butterfly in a time of 55.98, a new world record and the first woman ever under 56 seconds.

A brilliant second 50m from the American sees her storm past China’s Ying Lu and Alicia Coutts of Australia.

19.43 – Before the start of the 200m freestyle semi-finals, Nick O’Hare on RTE informed us that Ryan Lochte didn’t get to bed until after 2am last night.

It didn’t seem to have too much of an impact on the American though as he finished second behind world record holder Paul Biedermann in a time of 1.46.31.

19.56 – Bernard Dunne believes in Adam Nolan and why wouldn’t he?

His fight is expected to take place at about 22.15 tonight.

20.29 – GOLD! Camille Muffat of France wins the 400m Freestyle gold as she shows determination to hold off the challenge of American Alison Schmitt, gaining an Olympic Record in the process. Rebecca Adlington finishes so, so well to claim bronze.

Relay update: Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps have been drafted in to help the United States push for 4×100 relay gold later this evening.

20.37 – Luol Deng of the Chicago Bulls has made his Olympic basketballing bow with Great Britain. The Sudanese born, London raised, player and his teammates trail 24-19 after the first quarter.

20.52 – France are tonking the British 37-11 in the handball. Ryan Giggs and his buddies have not been able to add to their 1-0 lead over UAE. Missy Franklin of the USA is out and eager for another swim – she will take on Gemma Spofforth, a world record holder, in the 100m Backstroke semi-finals.

20.56 – Jill Scott of the Team GB Women’s Football team is chuffed after bumping into the roving Olympic ambassador/Olympic hunk, David Beckham.

20.59 – Recently displaced tennis world number one Novak Djokvic has vowed to improve after his 6-7, 6-2, 6-2 win over Italy’s Fabio Fognini.

Missy Franklin won her 100m Backstroke semi-final. Emily Seebohm of Australia wins the other, just shy of an Olympic Record.

21.09 – FRANCE WIN GOLD! Unbelievable finish and revenge for 2008. Adrian and Phelps definitely did their job but Jones swam a poor third leg and Lochte let the slender lead slip away in the final 25 metres. Agnell turned it on to pip him to the wall and France won in a time of 3:09.93. The US finish with silver and Russia in bronze. The Australians were poor and finished fourth.

21.14 – That stupendous swimming contest will end things here, live coverage-wise at least. Stay with us, however, as we will have coverage of the London 2012 bows of Chloe Magee and Adam Nolan. We will also have our Olympic Village: Day Two wrap in the next hour. Keep the comments coming and the coffee brewing.