by Alex Hoad at the Olympic Stadium

9.55pm - Stupid website. Sorry. Bolt won in 9.64, Blake 2nd, Gatlin 3rd.

It was epic. New Olympic Record.

9.48pm - Who's your money on?

9.45pm - I am covering the final of the men's 100m at the London 2012 Olympic Games. My career is literally peaking right this minute. Thanks for being here with me!

9.41pm - This place is getting ready to get very loud. We've seen Christine O snatch a silver medal from nowhere and there's some hammer and high jump going on.

But here come the 100m sprinters...

9.25pm - Want me to stop talking about the 100m now Adam's out?

Nah...... wanna know who's in the final? Yeahhhh.

So, erm, basically the best field ever assembled for any 100m race ever.

BOLT

BLAKE

GAY

POWELL

GATLIN

BAILEY (Ryan, of the USA)

THOMPSON (Richard, from Trinidad)

MARTINA (Churandy, from Holland, the new fastest European this year)

It would have been a dream if Adam had sneaked in there, but even without our national Gem, it's surely going to be an awesome spectacle.

9.10pm - Click here to read Adam's reaction to his 100m semi-final exit.

What a top lad. We're lucky to have him.

Oh, and sorry for the delay, but WHAT A COMEBACK BY GB'S HOCKEY TEAM.

They trailed Australia 3-0 five minutes into the second half. Game over, right? Errr, no. Jonty Clarke and Barry Middleton scored two goals in six minutes to make a game of it and James Tindall struck four minutes from time to snatch a dramatic draw.

It means GB and Oz are joint-top of Group A with eight points each and Jackson's boys just need to better either Australia or Pakistan's result on Tuesday, when they face Spain at 7pm, to secure a place in the semi-finals.

8.31pm - Great interview with Adam. He looks disappointed to have missed out but he vows to be back. See you in Rio!

Oh, and he's Kent and proud, said after the Evening Standard tried to claim him! :)

Story to come soon!

8.02pm - Adam Gemili is SO CLOSE, BUT JUST OUTSIDE THE FINAL. THIRD IN HIS HEAT THOUGH. SO PROUD.

More to follow.

7.56pm - If Adam Gemili can finish in the top three in his heat and run 10.01secs or better he will be in the Olympic Final. It is as simple as that.

James Dasaolu and Dwain Chambers have fallen by the wayside in their heats. Can Adam do it? He looks relaxed in the tunnel, bouncing on his heels and circling his neck.

7.47pm - Justin Gatlin won the opening heat in a VERY quick time of 9.82. Martina of the Netherlands also through to the final. Asafa Powell will have to wait and see if his 9.94 is enough for a fastest loser's spot.

7.40pm - Half-time and Australia lead 2-0 and look poised to qualify for the semi-finals, leaving GB to secure their place against Spain on Tuesday night.

UNLESS some dramatic stuff happens in the next 35 minutes!

Meanwhile heat one of the 100m is four minutes away and IT'S 20MINS UNTIL ADAM GEMILI RUNS.

7.11pm - Disaster for GB, it's 2-0 to Australia. Two goals in three minutes from Ford have given GB a mountain to climb. You can't give the best team in the world headstarts like that.

7.07pm - The Hockeyroos... nope, I'll call them Australia, have made a quick start against GB but it remains goalless.

7.02pm - GB v Australia is underway and it's less than an hour until Gemili's semi-final.

On a side note, glad I got here so early. Lot of very disappointed journos rocking up late with nowhere to work here!

6.55pm - Fine way to start the evening session, long jump gold medallist Greg Rutherford gets his medal and the crowd go wild.

Warm those vocal chords up Britain.... ONE HOUR AND FOUR MINUTES TIL GEMILITIME

6.40pm - Very rude of me to not do an Ashley Jackson countdown too. GB v Australia is due to start in 20mins at the Riverbank. Shame I'm missing it, but, y'know... Olympic 100m semi-final with a Kent lad in it.... pretty easy decision!

6.31pm - Gemili countdown: 90mins.

5.25pm - The crowds are coming in and the music is blaring. Things are hotting up nicely in that respect, however I should report that it is getting very chilly in the shade next to the 100m track.

This could bode well for northern European athletes more used t such conditions and might count against athletes from, say Jamaica. We'll see. Michael Fish, over and out.

Gemili countdown: 2hrs 34mins

4.42pm - This is the calm before the storm.

We've seen Andy Murray win gold on the big screen and I've witnessed the single most pathetic 100m ever run from some giddy Gamesmakers letting off steam on the track. The winning time was something like 22.34secs with the trailing runner crossing in a time slightly over that which Mo Farah ran in last night's 10k.

Gemili countdown: 3hrs 18mins

2.25pm - Good news from Weymouth where Bryony Shaw has recorded a win and a fifth-placed finish in this afternoon's two RS-X windsurfing races.

The Tunbridge Wells-based star - who claimed bronze in Beijing four years ago - narrowed the gap on the medal places with her win in the first race of the day, and the ninth of the competition overall.

She pipped Brazilian Patricia Freitas to the line by just five seconds to take first, but was then 1.55mins adrift of the winner in race 10 to claim fifth.

In RS-X the higher you finish the fewer points you get. So the winner gets one, the second two, 10th gets 10 and so on.

Shaw finished seventh in the standings, with the top-10 going through to Tuesday's medal race.

In the medal race the points are doubled, so the winner receives two, second four, 10th 20, etc.

Sooooo, we need Bryony to make up 12 points on the third-placed Finn and 15 points on the Israeli in silver position for her to claim a second successive Olympic. A Spaniard has already all-but sewn up the gold.

It's a tall-order but if Shaw can get in the top-two and the other two are in the bottom-two then she could yet claim silver.

Hope you've got all that.

Gemili countdown: 5hrs 12mins.

11.15am - Welcome to the morning after the night before. If you thought yesterday was action-packed, just wait until this evening.

Adam Gemili will run in the semi-finals of the Olympic 100m competition at 8.01pm this evening. That is the big time.

The 18-year-old Dartford lad will run in lane seven and be up against Tyson Gay of the USA, Yohan Blake of Jamaica and Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas, who have all smashed 10 seconds before.

Gemili is likley to need a personal best to make the final, but I don't think anything this young man does surprises us anymore.

Also in action tonight is Ashley Jackson, who will be hoping to inspire Britain to a landmark hockey win over Australia at the Riverbank Arena at 7pm.

The winner is guaranteed a place in the semi-final, with a draw allowing the likes of Pakistan and Spain a glimmer of hope of qualifying from Group A.

Bryony Shaw will also be seeking to narrow the 16-point gap on the medal places in her two RS-X windsurfing races at Weymouth this afternoon.

It promises to be a special day at the Games. You can get live updates via twitter - @kentonline2012