things that happened in Rio while you were asleep: Highlights from Tuesday 9 August overnight action
It was yet another dramatic night in the Olympic Games with yet more medal glory for the greatest Olympian of them all in the pool
If it is to be his last one then Michael Phelps knows how to go out in style.
South African Chad Le Clos spoiled the greatest Olympian in history's party four years ago.
But there was to be no repeat four years on in Rio de Janeiro last night as the American superstar returned to doing what he does best - winning.
Phelps led from blocks to wall as he exorcised the demons of London in style to claim gold medal number 20 of a truly historic career.
And then he went and added another an hour later anchoring the United States to glory in the 4x200m freestyle relay.
The diving went green
Divers and Olympic officials reacted with shock after the water in the pool turned GREEN before the women’s synchronised 10m platform event.
The water in the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre appeared to be blue in colour for Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow’s bronze medal-winning dives on Monday.
But competitors – including Daley himself – noticed that the pool had changed colour, to murky green, overnight.
But the Team GB girls didn't mind a bit
The Olympic pool turned green on Tuesday evening - not that Great Britain duo Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson cared a jot after recording a personal best in finishing fifth in the women's synchronised 10metres platform final.
China won their third consecutive diving gold medal in the competition, with Team GB frozen out of the medals in the the women’s synchronised 10 metres platform final.
But the lime-green shade of the plunge pool, which appeared to darken with the bottom invisible before the end, was the talk of the crowd.
"It's so green," Couch said. "But we got a personal best score, so maybe we should ask for a green pool from now on. I kind of liked it."
Great Britain broke its cycle or near misses
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor took silver in the 200m individual medley - before the men's 4x200m relay team added another 15 minutes later.
O'Connor again smashed the British record, just as she did in the qualifiers, but could not get close enough to the Olympic record time of Hungarian Hosszu.
The 20-year-old was playing catch-up after the second leg where Katinka Hosszu, an Olympic backstroke champion, pulled away in her favourite stroke.
And a quarter of an hour later the men followed suit grabbing a first relay medal for 32 years with a brilliant silver in the 4x200m.
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