Desmond Lynam rounds up the action on the penultimate, and busiest, day of the Barcelona games, with reports from
Dougie Donnelly , Hazel Irvine, Helen Rollason , Ray Stubbs and Anna Walker.
Athletics
A review of this evening's nine finals in the Montjuic Stadium. It promised to be a great night for Britain with the men's
4 x 400m relay team, javelin thrower Steve Backley , and Linford Christie 's 4 x 100m quartet all in with good medal chances. The rest of the finals include the women's high jump, the women's relays, the men's 5,000m and the blue-riband events, the men's and women's 1500m. With Peter Elliot sidelined through injury, will tonight see the first Olympic men's 1500m without a British medal since David Moorcroft finished tenth in 1980? Hockey
Coverage of the men's final.
Four years ago, Britain's men clinched a memorable Olympic title with a thrilling win over West Germany. The British squad still includes six men who won gold medals in Seoul (Clift, Martin, Kerly, Batchelor, Potter and Garcia), plus younger talents such as penalty striker specialist Rob Hill, the 22-year-old forward Justin Lee and Slough teenager Simon Nicklin. Did they reach today's final?
World champions Holland, the European Cup holders Germany and Australia were the other strong contenders. Commentary by Barry Davies ,
Nigel Starmer-Smith and Ian Taylor.
Football
Leeds United v Liverpool At 10.00pm*. highlights of this afternoon's Charity Shield clash between 1992 League champions Leeds United and FA Cup winners Liverpool, at Wembley. The last time these two sides met in this contest wasinl974-a match of little charity in which Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner were sent off and suspended for fighting and then removing their shirts before reaching the tunnel.
That gave Keegan the dubious honour of being the first
Englishman to be sent off at
Wembley. With John Motson. ● SPORT: page8
Plus highlights of the Olympic football final.
Basketball
Action from the men's basketball final. The US team, earning an average wage of$3 million a year, and including such sporting legends as Michael Jordan (the name behind Nike's Air Jordan trainers), "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird are all but guaranteed the gold. They have lost only one match in 52 years of Olympic competition.
Plus, the conclusion of the rhythmic gymnastics competition, and the women's and men's handball finals.