Bert Foord: the weekend weather
Non-stop action from Munich and London
Introduced by Frank Bough and David Vine
10.10 Swimming Heats: Men's 100m Freestyle
10.40-12.45 and 1.45-2.40 Gillette Cup Final From Lord's: Lancashire v Warwickshire
12.45 Football Preview
Introduced by Sam Leitch
1.0 Rowing Finals
The climax of five days of competition over the specially constructed 2,000m Olympic rowing regatta course.
1.30-1.45 Swimming Heats: Men's 200m Backstroke, Men's 200m Breaststroke
2.40 Athletics
Five gold medal events to be decided including, at 4.15, the 400m Hurdles with David Hemerey's title at stake
Pole Vault Final
Bob Seagren's world record is now 18ft 5f ins - more than nine inches higher than his winning leap at the Mexico Olympics. Standards are soaring and this spectacular event could produce another' world record today.
Olympic champion: R. Seagren (USA) Olympic record: 17ft 5iins
100m (Women). Semi-finals
Discus Final (Men)
Olympic champion: A. Oerter (USA) Olympic record: 212ft 61ins
400m (Women). Heats
Pentathlon High Jump
4.15 400m Hurdles Final (Men)
The Kenyan Bill Koskei led 1972's early rankings with 49 secs, but then the Americans Ralph Mann and Dick Bruggeman closed on David Hemery's world record by clocking 48.4 and 48.6 secs respectively.
Olympic champion: D. Hemery (Gt Britain)
World and Olympic record: 48.1 secs
800m Final (Men). Britain's Derek Johnson won the 800m silver medal at Melbourne in 1956. He was edged out of the gold by Tom Courtney (USA) who won in 1 min 47.7secs. Olympic champion: R. Doubell (Australia)
Olympic record: 1 min 44.3 secs
100m Final (Women). This gold looked certain to go to Europe - the East Germans Renate Stecher and Ellen Stropahl and the Czech girl Eva Gleskova have all clocked a world record 11 secs this year. Olympic champion: W. Tyus (USA) Olympic record: 11.0 secs
5.55 Swimming Finals
Semi-finals: Men's 100m Freestyle
Action from four more exciting gold medal events being decided this afternoon at the Olympic Pool
Men's 200m Backstroke
Olympic champion: R. Matthes (E. Germany)
Olympic record: 2 mins 9.6 secs
Men's 200m Breaststroke
Olympic champion: F. Munoz (Mexico) Olympic record: 2 mins 27.8 secs
Women's 100m Backstroke Olympic champion: K. Hall (USA) Olympic record: 1 min 6.2 secs
Women's 100m Breaststroke Olympic champion: D. Bjedov (Yugoslavia)
Olympic record: 1 min 15.8 secs
Results Service and Highlights
Classified football results will be at 5.10*, and action highlights and news of the day's other top events, including the Gillette Cup Final, will be shown between the swimming finals.
(Britain's best ever: page 12: Guide to this week's finals: pages 14-17)
Tonight's adventure film stars Rock Hudson, Marcia Henderson, Steve Cochran, Hugh O'Brian
The captain of the Flying Moon, at anchor in the almost frozen Canadian harbour of Franklin Bend, is anxious to put to sea with a valuable cargo of furs before the ship becomes ice-bound for the winter. Unknown to him a local trader has designs on his cargo - and his wife.
(This Week's Films: page 19)
Starring Cliff Richard
with Tim Brooke-Taylor
and featuring Olivia Newton-John
and Matti Ranin, Pekka Laiho as the crooks.
In this musical, action-packed comedy, Cliff and Tim are on a tour of Scandinavia, and circumstances force Tim to disguise himself as one of his craziest characters. In the confusion of a busy railway station they become involved with two crooks. Cliff then inadvertently picks up the wrong suitcase which, unknown to him, contains the proceeds of a bank robbery. The resulting chase gets them into both hilarious and terrifying situations.
A film specially made for television this summer on location in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.
(A co-production BBC/SR/NRK/YLE)
with John Edmunds
Weather
A big weekend of sport continues with tonight's events and headlines from Munich and top matches from the Football League programme at home.
At 9.30 The Olympic Games
The action and the personalities on a day when David Hemery's titles at stake, a day which promises the greatest Pole Vault in history, a day which by midnight will have produced 21 gold medal winners.
At 10.0 Match of the Day
Two-match action from today's Football League programme and the top three goals from the August 'Goal of the Month' competition.
At 11.0 The Olympic Games
featuring:
Boxing
The bouts of the day as the Olympic competition nears the end of the second round.
High Diving Final: The Women's Championship
Medal-winning action from the Olympic Pool in one of the most graceful of all the Olympic events.
Cycling Final: The Individual Sprint
The event which combines cat-and-mouse tactics, subtlety and breakneck speed over the Radstadion track.
Fencing Final: Men's Team Foil
Elegance, poise and quicksilver reactions decide the destiny of the third gold medal of the fencing contest
and News... Action... Personalities from tonight's other events
Introduced by Frank Bough
with comment and interviews by Ian Wooldridge, Chris Brasher
(Guide to this week's finals: pages 14-17)
