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Live coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games - Thursday, August 9

Ashley Jackson
Ashley Jackson

by Alex Hoad at the Riverbank Arena

9.28pm - It's over. Thank goodness.

9.20pm - 9-2. Rob Moore with a close range strike from a low cross.

9.17pm - Nine. Weusthof. PC.

9.07pm - Eight. Bakker. Hat-trick. Rocket into the corner from an acute angle.

9.03pm - It's now 7-1 and getting embarrassing. Teun de Nooijer's shot beat Fair for the sixth and then within a minute Floris Evers capitalises on some poor defending to round Fair and slot home.

9pm - 5-1 to the Netherlands 10mins into the second half, Bakker with his second. There's no coming Bakker from this.

Bolt won the 200m in 19.32 in a Jamaican 1-2-3 with Blake taking silver and Warren Weir bronze. Special.

8.47pm - We're back under way for the second half here, GB are 4-1 down and that gold medal dream is looking very distant.

8.36pm- Cruelly it's 4-1 a minute before the break.Billy Bakker getting the final touch from close range after the GB defence had been carved open by the marauding Dutch.

They are incredibly good. Seriously.

8.23pm - 3-1 now. Mink van der Weerden with a penalty corner which squeezed past Fair and the defender on the line.

This could be a basketball score.

8.19pm - Ashley Jackson has halved the deficit with a lovely low penlty corner drag-flick. GB needed that.

What a game this is!

8.15pm - Oh dear. 2-0. Another PC for the Netherlands, this time they fluff it, but it's returned into the D where an unmarked Weusthof slaps in his second at the back post.

Uphill struggle just became a mountain to climb.

8.10pm - 1-0 to the Netherlands. A penalty corner conversion on eight minutes by Roderick Weusthof. They look SO slick on the attack. Uphill struggle from here.

8.01pm - Awesome atmosphere. Anthems sung with gusto and now the rival fans trying to outsing each other.

7.52pm - Atmosphere is building here. Lots of Dutch fans here which is going to make it a sizzler.

Third against fourth in the world. Netherlands already in one final, can they make it two or can Jackson et all make history?

Teams coming out!

7.27pm - I've been asked to leave.

Luckily it's only Mel Clewlow who did the asking. The GB and Canterbury legend reckons I'm a jinx because I saw South Africa's women lose yesterday.

There are a LOT of Dutch fans in this crowd, it's going to be an fantastic atmosphere.

Half an hour until push-back.

7.10pm - Evening from the Bank, where we're waiting for the teams to come out for the semi-final of the Olympic Games.

Welcome to the biggest stage there is!

Ashley Jackson will need to be in top form for GB, as they are up against a perennial powerhouse of world hockey, the Netherlands for a place in the gold medal match against Germany.

Australia lie in wait for the loser in the bronze medal match. Both medal games take place on Saturday.

5pm - What an afternoon. Team GB's Nicola Adams has made history, becoming the first woman to win an Olympic boxing medal at the ExCel centre.

We've also claimed a gold and bronze in the dressage at Greenwich Park.

Charlotte Dujardin collected her second gold of the games with victory in the individual dressage while fellow Brit Laura Bechtolsheimer took bronze.

We're three hours away from Ashley Jackson's massive semi-final against the Netherlands, with Germany awaiting the winner in the good medal match and Australia set for the bronze-medal game.

12.35pm -That was genuinely electrifying. One of the high points of my Games. The lad is 20. TWENTY. Kent is going to be all over the medals tables in Rio. I'm serious. We're going to be pushing Australia.

If you want to read what Jack made of it, click here.

11.55am - It wasn't even that much. They finished with the exact same time. But all that matters is that GB are through.

Green was visibly pleased with his performance and said he hopes he's done enough to be in the team for the final at 9.20pm tomorrow night.

More to follow asap.

Jack Green
Jack Green

11.38am - IMMENSE RUN FROM GREEN TO GO THIRD TO FIRST TO help GB through to the final in second after a photo. Rooney stopped on the line. Trinidad won in 3.00.38 by just 0.0-something.

11.33am - Perfect. Cloud cover. Here we go with the relay. First three through to Friday's final with the fastest two losers from the two heats.

11.25am - 10 minutes to go. Still getting hotter. Not moaning for my sake, more for the athletes.

11.05am - We're half an hour away from th relay. It is 26 degrees on the track and feels double it.

11am - Pistorius and Green are both running the third leg of the relay.

Jack likes playing catch-up, by the way, so if he's behind when he gets the baton, watch him fly (hopefully!).

10.45pm - Whoops. Forgot to say. GB order is Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams, JACK GREEN, Martyn Rooney.

10.40am - Less than an hour to wait now.

Jack will run the third leg for GB. They are in the first of two heats and will start in Lane 3.

Should be a great heat, Trinidad, Belgium, South Africa, Cuba, Kenya, Germany and Poland provide the opposition.

Oscar Pistorius runs for South Africa and the Borlee brothers go for Belgium.

Should be a spectacle!

10am - It is so hot in here. Track temperature is 25 degrees but lack of breeze, shade and cloud means it feels double that. And Green prefers the damp and rain!

This could suit the African and Caribbean nations in the relay.

9.30am - Morning from the OS. Another GLORIOUS day here, not a could in the sky, a packed stadium at 9am for the decathlon hurdles and the women's high jump qualifiers.

I, however, am here to see Jack Green run for GB in the 4x400m relay at around 11.35am.

He's looking for a spot of redemption after crashing out of the 400m hurdles on Saturday night in the semi-final after clattering the third hurdle.

He has a point to prove and so I'm looking forward to seeing what the team can do!

Also today we have the mammoth hockey clash between GB and the Netherlands in the semi-final - with the winner going through to the gold medal match.

Ashley Jackson has been in inspirational form thus far and if GB are to pull off a shock and win it, he's going to have to have another big game.

Click here to read his thoughts about the game.

I'll also keep you up to date with any GB medals and how Usain Bolt fairs in the 200m final tonight. Keep up to date via my twitter - @kentonline2012

Alex Hoad at the Games - Twitter button
Alex Hoad at the Games - Twitter button
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