Rio 2016 Olympics day-by-day guide

Day 2: Sunday, 7 August

Adam Peaty is just one of the stars bidding for success in the pool, along with Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky

Gold medals - 14 in total

Archery (women's team), cycling (women's road race), diving (women's 3m synchro), fencing (men's foil), judo (men's -66kg, women's -52kg), shooting (women's trap/10m air pistol), swimming (men's 100m breast & 4x100m free relay, women's 100m fly & 400m free), weightlifting (men's 56kg, women's 53kg).

Highlights

Adam Peaty, a three-time world champion for GB in 2015, is favourite to win gold in the 100m breaststroke after breaking his own world record in the heats and qualifying fastest in the semi-finals (02:53 Monday).

This could be the first time we see Michael Phelps at the Rio Olympics. The 31-year-old legendary US swimmer, owner of 18 Olympic gold medals already, could be selected to swim for the US in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay (03:54 on Monday).

Another US superstar, Katie Ledecky, is the clear favourite for the women's 400m freestyle gold (03:01 Monday). At 19, Ledecky is still the youngest American swimmer heading to Rio despite winning London 2012 gold in the 800m free plus nine world titles since. GB's entrant is 2014 European champion Jazz Carlin.

Earlier in the day, British world champion Lizzie Armitstead sets off to improve on London 2012 silver in the women's cycling road race (from 16:15). Armitstead has focused her training on preparing for the Rio route's mountainous terrain.

Five nations earned the maximum quota of four riders in their road race teams, including the Netherlands, for whom Marianne Vos and Anna van der Breggen could both threaten Armitstead - who has two support riders.

Brit watch

Britain's only fencers at Rio 2016 compete in the men's foil, with the individual event starting at 13:00. This year's GB contingent includes world number five James Davis, who won Britain's first European title in the men's foil two years ago, and world number six Richard Kruse attending his fourth Olympics.

Commonwealth judo champion Colin Oates takes part in the men's -66kg category from 14:00, while Helen Glover and Heather Stanning begin their defence of Olympic women's pairs gold in Sunday's rowing heats which start from 12:30. The men's coxless four, an event won by Britain at the last four Olympics, also begins.

GB's rugby sevens women play Canada at 16:30 before the knockout stage begins later in the day, while Britain's men's hockey team face New Zealand at 21:00.

World watch

Sunday is women's gymnastics qualification day. This is a big sport for the US, where journalists dubbed their women's team the "fierce five" after securing team gold at London 2012. America's 2016 contingent start qualifying at 21:30, with the British team going earlier at 18:30.

In archery, South Korea could win an eighth consecutive women's Olympic team title (from 13:00). Since the sport's reintroduction to the Olympics in 1972, South Koreans have won more than half of the available gold medals (19 out of 36). London 2012 team and individual champion Ki Bo-Bae returns to lead the women's team for Rio.

Qatar's handball team make their Olympic debut against Croatia at 13:30. Qatar won world silver on home soil last year, a controversial result as many rivals accused the hosts of having assembled a "world select" team featuring naturalised players from the Balkans and western Europe.

If the team repeat the feat this year and reach the podium, they will be the first team from Qatar to win Olympic medals. No Qatar athlete has done better than bronze at the Games.

Did you know?

China's Wu Minxia, the first woman to win diving gold in three consecutive Olympics, will try to break her record and make it four in the 3m synchro event (from 20:00). Rebecca Gallantree and Alicia Blagg, Commonwealth champions and European silver medallists, compete for GB in the event.