London Olympic highlights 11 August 2012

All eyes will be on Mo Farah as he bids to follow up victory in the 10,000m with another gold medal performance in the 5,000m.

It is a week since Farah added his name to the role of honour as one of three British gold medallists on the track in a single night of action.

Tough test for Farah
He is the only British representative in the individual events on the final night at the Olympic Stadium, with no qualifiers in the women's high jump, men's javelin or the women's 800m finals.

And with the men's 4x100m relay squad failing to get the baton round in the heats, the only other Team GB representatives are the women's 4x400m quartet, who have only an outside chance of picking up a medal.

Tom Daley will be hoping for a better performance in the semi-finals of the Men's 10m platform diving competition in the morning, after qualifying in 15th on Friday. The final takes place at 8pm.

It's a huge night for Luke Campbell at the ExCel Arena when the bantamweight bids to emulate James DeGale as a boxing gold medal winner, as he takes on John Joe Nevin of Ireland.

Another hockey medal is up for grabs, this time for Britain's men as they take on Australia in a bid to follow in the foosteps of their female counterparts who claimed a bronze medal on Friday.

Hopes are high at Eton Dorney where Great Britain's Ed McKeever goes for gold in the 200m kayak sprint at 9.37am.

The trainee accountant posted one of the fastest times during the qualifiers to raise expectations ahead of the final.

Jon Schofield and Liam Heath go for a medal in the two-man kayak 200m sprint, while Jessica Walker also has an outside chance of a medal in the 200m sprint.

Nick Woodbridge will be hoping to challenge for a medal in the notoriously unpredictable modern pentathlon after winning bronze at last year's Olympic test event, while Sam Weale is also contesting the event.

Friday's successes in the hockey, sailing and in the ring saw Team GB's medal haul at London 2012 reach 57 - 25 gold, 15 silver and 17 bronze.

FULL SATURDAY SCHEDULE

August 12

Britain have won four medals in women's modern pentathlon in the last three Olympics and world champion Mhairi Spence and Samantha Murray will hope to continue that sequence. The final event, the combined run and shoot, begins at 6pm and the medals could be the final ones presented before the closing ceremony brings the curtain down on the London Games.http://www.skysports.com

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