Welcome to the second day of our live coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games, where we'll keep you right up to date with all the major happenings throughout the day. We'll keep it light and informal, and we invite your tweets and Facebook comments throughout the day, so keep them coming. A couple of points:

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10:50pm - a big Olympic good night to you all, join us tomorrow morning around 11am for the start of the swimming programme, and we'll keep you up to speed with all the goings on. Go to sleep smiling - SA are joint 13th on the medals table, and have Africa's only shiny disc thus far. Sweet, sweet dreams...

10:10pm, Swim - No medal for SA. France, USA and Russia claim the men's 4x100m freestyle medals.

That was some race, with Angel overcoming Lochte on the last leg to clinch gold for the Frogs. Talk about the American going out of his way to deny his teammate/rival Phelps his first gold at these Games!! SA fifth in 3:13.45, with the winning time being 3:09.93. Favourites Australia were fourth. Nice.

Still one more race - Van Biljon's swim-off in the women's 100m breaststroke. Medal ceremonies first though.

10:00pm, Swim - women's 100m backstroke heats complete, with Emily Seebohm and Missy Franklin both winning their heats to go through as 1 and 2. Zim's Kirsty Coventry didn't go through to the final eight.

Right, men's 4x100m free time. SA in lane 1, and will need a near miracle to get a medal. But hey, Cameron has set the tone...

9:45pm, Swim - Goose bumps all round as Cameron gets his gold. He looks completely overwhelmed!! Bless...

Wow - has the anthem ever felt that good?! And they got it right too. CvdB couldn't stop smiling the whole way through, seriously chuffed. The only male SA swimmer to have ever won an individual swimming gold - how about that!

9:40pm, Swim - Matthwe Grevers, Camille Lacourt and Liam Tancock are the top three going through to the final of the men's 100m backstroke.

9:25pm, Swim - Sorry about the late update, just wiping the champagne off my laptop..... Gold in the women's 400m for France's Camille Muffat in 4:01.45. Allison Scmitt of US second, and hometown favourite Rebecca Adlington third. Don't care, really, still buzzing off CvdB!!

9:15pm, Swim - CvdB went out very quick again - and HOLDS ON!!!!!!!!!! Gold AND a world record.

Fantastic swim, and we've improved on Beijing already! Australia's Christian Sprenger and Brendan Hansen of the US took the next two spots. Great celebration, lying on the lane separator with a huge smile. Feels great to be South African right now!

9:10pm, Swim - Right, on the edge of your seats. Make some noise for CAMERON. Looking relaxed, is our boy.

8:55pm, Swim - First semi of the women's 100m breaststroke, and SA's Suzaan van Biljon finished in 7th in 1:07.68. Rebecca Soni was first in 1:05.98.

Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte, the 15-year-old who looks awesome, destroyed everyone in the second semi in a new PB of 1:05.21 to easily lead the qualification for the final - and is probably favourite now over Soni. Aus's Liesel Jones was third, and former South African Sarah Poewe was fifth.

8:45pm, Swim First semi of the men's 200m free, and Biedermann pips Lochte. Not that fast though - 1:46.10.

Second semi complete, with Yang Sun comfortably first in 1:45.61 in a much faster heat than the first. All the big guns are through to the final, including those mentioned along with Yannick Agnel and Park Taehwan.

8:40pm, Swim - First event is done, and the gold has gone to Dana Vollmer of the US in the women's 100m butterfly. Her time of 55.98 means she becomes the first women ever under 56secs for this event. Ying Lu of China was second, with Alicia Coutts from Aus getting the bronze.

Next up we have the men's 200m free semis, with Ryan Lochte in the first heat. Phelps opted out of this event, must be a big party somewhere in London tonight.....

7pm, Swim Good evening all, and with about an hour and a half until the swimming finals start, with Cameron van der Burgh swimming at 9:10pm, let's have a round-up of this afternoon.

8:30pm - Women's 100m Butterfly Final
8:37 - Men's 200m Freestyle semifinals
9:50 - Women's 100m Breaststroke semifinals (Suzaan van Biljon)
9:11 - Men's 100m Breaststroke final (Cameron van der Burgh)
9:18 - Women's 400m Freestyle final
9:28 - Men's 100m Backstroke semifinals
9:49 - Women's 100m Backstroke semifinals
10:00 - Men's 4x100m freestyle final (SA)

7pm, Swim Good evening all, and with about an hour and a half until the swimming finals start, with Cameron van der Burgh swimming at 9:10pm, let's have a round-up of this afternoon.

First from an SA perspective, and block your eyes if you're a hockey fan...... we went down 7-1 to Argentina. To be fair though, the third goal was dodgy.... Cycling was a little more respectable, with Ashleigh Moolman finishing in 16th and Joanna van de Winkel in 28th. The race was won by the Netherlands' Marianne Vos.

Elsewhere, there were football wins for Brazil and Mexico (over Gabon), while Egypt drew 1-1 with New Zealand; the US basketball Dream Team 19 (or whatever) thumped France 98-71, with Kevin Durant scoring 22 points, and there were tennis wins on a wet day for Andy 'cry-baby' Murray and Maria Sharapova.

ONE HOUR until the swimming, see you then (sort of).....

1:10pm, Swim - Right, that's the end of the swimming heats for the morning. Not great for Africa, but Suzaan van Biljon, Kirsty Coventry and SA's 4x100m men's relay team are through to tonight's proceedings, where Cameron van der Burgh will hopefully star in the men's 100m breaststroke final.

SA has Robyn de Groot, Ashleigh Moolman and Joanna van de Winkel currently on the road on their bicycles, while the women's hockey team take to the field against Argentina at 5pm.

Here's the swimming highlights from this morning:

1:10pm, SA - SA are through to the final of the men's 4x100m free relay after finishing second in the first semifinal. Roland Schoeman, Darian Townsend, Gideon Louw, Graeme Moore finished just behind the French. The top three times all came from the second semi, with Australia edging out the US to set up a great final tonight. SA were seventh fastest, so plenty to do if a medal is to come our way.

12:55pm, Swim - Women's heats in the 400m free just complete, and a couple of near shocks as world-record holder Federica Pellegrini and Olympic Champion Rebecca Adlington - the home favourite - scraped into tonight's final in 7th and 8th respectively. France's Camille Muffat, who looks like she could step up another few gears at any time, was fastest in 4:03.29. On to the men's 4x100m free relay!

12:45pm, SA - Couple of South Africans had their first swims of the Games, but they weren't ones they'd write home about, so I'd better do it here. Charl Crous finished 8th in Heat 6 of the men's 100m backstroke in 55.37, while Wendy Trott was last as well in her 400m freestyle heat.

12:20pm - Looks like that Nigerian win has got a few of you excited. Don't forget to keep those Tweets coming in using #SSolympics.

12:10pm - Some news from elswhere. Nigerian men's basketball team held off Tunisia 60-56 in their group match, while the SA men's badminton duo of Dorian James and Willem Viljoen received a 21-8, 21-13 thumping from a Chinese duo. Check out the clips below

12pm, Swim - SA's Suzaan van Biljon is through to the semis of the women's 100m breaststroke, qualifying 12th in a time of 1:07.54. 15-year-old Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte stunned the arena with the fastest time in the world this year, 1:05.56, with favourite Rebecca Soni just behind in second.

Of interest to South Africans will be traitor - sorry, ex-pat - Sarah Poewe, with 'the German' qualifying sixth fastest in 1:07.12. If Suzaan doesn't win, can she just beat Sarah? Please? Right, into the men's 100m backstroke heats

11:53am, Swim - Second for SA's Suzaan van Biljon in Heat 3 in the women's 100m breaststroke, in a good time of 1:07.54, which will hopefully be good enough for the semis. Hold thumbs, couple of more heats.....

11:40am, Swim - Men's 200m freestyle heats just completed, and no major surprises there. Top qualifier for the semis was 400m gold medallist Yang Sun of China in 1:46.24, with Ryan Lochte just behind in second. Paul Biedermann through in 10th. Those semis will be tonight.

11:12am, Swim - Not a great heat for Zim's Kirsty Coventry, finishing fourth in Heat 4 of the women's 100m backstroke. The race was won by Australila's Emily Seebohm in an Olympic record of 58.23 - the fastest-ever time in a textile suit.

Turns out that time was comfortable the fastest - by over a second on US star Missy Franklin - in qualifying for the semis, with Coventry scraping through in 15th place. We now move into the men's 200m freestyle heats, with the likes of Paul Biedermann, Ryan Lochte and Taehwan Park.

11:am - Morning! Hope you've recovered from yesterday's events - go Cameron! - and are ready for another action-packed day from London 2012, or 'the capital of the world' as the understated British press are saying. Got some SA swimmers lined up, with Suzaan van Biljon (11:49am), Charl Crous (12:18pm), Wendy Trott (12:37pm) and the men's 4x100m freestyle team (12:56pm) all in action. Cameron van der Burgh is already in tonight's 100m breaststroke final (9:30pm).

We have a men's badminton team currently on court (my dog Minton ate my shuttlecock - bad Minton), three cyclists in the women's road race (from 1pm), and our hockey girls face Argentina at 5pm.

So settle in, and don't forget to tweet us (#SSOlympics), and we'll use the best ones right here. You can also post your Facebook thoughts using the comments section below.

- Day 1's full coverage