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Cambridge PhD student Emma Pooley has won silver in the women’s individual road race - Team GB’s second cycling medal and seventh medal overall at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. 

As the Beijing Olympics enters its fifth day we round-up who’s in and out at the at the end of day four.

Canoeist David Florence picked up Britain’s fourth medal of the Games in the men’s C1 single slalom event following a tremendous final run that saw him leapfrog Poland’s Krzysztof Bieryt and Stanislav Jezek, of the Czech Republic, to secure second place. 

Music graduate, Naomi Folkard has progressed through to Thursday’s (14 August) archery quarter final following a bittersweet victory over GB team-mate Charlotte Burgess.

England have beaten Scotland in their final match to take the overall British Universities Golf Home International 2008 title. England won their last three singles matches to complete a 7½-4½ victory over last years winners. Northern Ireland and Wales are still playing each other, trying to avoid the wooden spoon. For today's results so far, and full results from day's 1 and 2, please select this news story for more information.

Representing your country at an Olympic games is every young athletes dream and that dream is about to become reality for University of Worcester students Keryn Seal, Lee Greatbach, and Ajmal Ahmed as they prepare for the 2008 Paralympics