Olympic hero of the day

The 10km open-water swim is a new event for the Olympics and I think it's a great one - a gruelling endurance race with pack tactics, weather, drafting and a little ankle-grabbing. 

Brits Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten took silver and bronze after being out-sprinted at the end by Russian Larisa Ilchenko (sneaky!) but for me the Man Of The Match, so to speak, was South African Natalie du Toit.  That's her, number 23, and yes, that's her peg-leg.  Lost it in an accident and just carried on competing at international level.  Natalie finished about a minute behind the leaders at just over two hours. 

That's gumption.  Gumption and lats, clearly ;)