Rio 2016: What we learned on Day 6

•    The horrendous Rio weather lifted yesterday, allowing the rowing to resume. Katherine Grainger made the most of the break in the weather to become Britain’s most decorated (no I’m not going to write some awful gag about a nice magnolia Anaglypta) female Olympian when she took silver alongside Victoria Thornley in the double sculls. That made it an amazing five medals in all to cap an incredible Olympic career which has seen Grainger win gold in London after scooping silver medals in Sydney, Athens and Bejing.

•    The last Olympics saw post boxes turned gold to celebrate Britain’s competitors winning…well, gold medals. Other ways to commemorate such feats include people having roads named after them and then there are the various honours bestowed upon our most illustrious Olympians, such as Sir Steve Redgrave and Dame Kelly Holmes. However, news has just emerged of a unique way of honouring said athletes, in the form of one of Ripon’s Number 36 buses being named after gold medal winning diver Jack Laugher. If he wins another one I can write a joke about you wait four years for a gold medal, then two come along at the same time.

•    ‘They’ll be dancing in the streets of Suva’ is how a certain famous rugby union commentator would’ve been describing the amazing scenes that ensued on the island following Fiji’s 43-7 thumping victory over Great Britain who took a valiant silver, in the inaugrial Olympic Rugby Sevens Final. It was Fiji’s first-ever Olympic medal, and the country went absolutely bonkers for it, with banks and shops shutting to join in the fun whilst everyone took to the streets in wild celebration.

•    Golf’s return to the Olympics after a 112-year hiatus has been controversial, and as of yet, relatively muted. Withdrawal from the competition by many of the game’s top players hasn’t helped matters (presumably advised to be worried about the Zika virus by their managers – I mean, who wants 15% of a gold medal?). With the course quite a way out of the heart of the games, and Brazil not really being what you’d call a big player in the sport, it’s all kind of limped along thus far. However, organisers are claiming that Sunday’s final round is already a sell-out.

•    On the doping front, things have been relatively quiet after the Russians got off to a flyer before the games even started (they peaked too soon). However, Rio 2016 is over for Bulgarian athlete Silvia Danekova before it even started, as she tested positive for blood booster erythropoietin (no idea - makes you go faster or throws things further, that’s all you need to know). On a related, but bizarre note, a Kenyan athletics coach has been sent home in disgrace after posing as an 800 metre runner and giving their urine sample.