London 2012 Olympics: Team GB's first day - in pictures

Simon Terry of Great Britain in action in the Men's Team Eliminations match between Great Britain and Ukraine. The team lost 223-212 in the second routnd Photograph: Paul Gilham/Getty Images

British No1 badminton player Susan Egelstaff wins her opening match as she beats Slovenia's Maja Tvrdy 21-15, 21-10 Photograph: Julien Behal/PA

Great Britain's women's basketball side struggled against three-time Olympic silver medallists Australia in the opening game of their campaign, losing 74-58 Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

British pair John Garcia-Thompson and Steve Grotowski were beaten 2-0 (21-19, 21-13) by Canada's Joshua Binstock and Martin Reader in their beach volleyball opener. Garcia-Thompson and Grotowski were GB's first ever male representatives at an Olympics beach volleyball event Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

Great Britain's Anthony Ogogo opened his middleweight boxing campaign with a comfortable win over Junior Castillo Martinez of the Dominican Republic at a packed Excel Arena. Ogogo, silver medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, won the bout 13-6 on his Olympic debut. The 23-year-old will now face reigning world champion Ievgen Khytrov of Ukraine Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images

The pose may be familiar but this time Mark Cavendish isn't ahead of the pack on his way to crossing the finishing line. He was well beaten by Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov to gold, with Colombia's Rigoberto Uran and Norway's Alexander Kristoff making up the medal places Photograph: Christophe Karaba/EPA

Mary King of Great Britain competes with her horse Imperial Cavalier in the equestrian eventing dressage phase at Greenwich Park. King goes in to the next day in third place Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Natalia Sheppard beat compatriot Sophie Troiano in women's foil individual round of 64 match. Britain's Anna Bentley also went out, going down 10-9 to Canada's Monica Peterson Photograph: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images

Jill Scott, left, celebrates with Eni Aluko, centre and Kelly Smith after scoring the second goal in Great Britain's comfortable 3-0 victory over Cameroon. The win seals their passage to the quarter-finals of the women's football Photograph: Paul Harding/Action Images

Great Britain's male gymnasts (Max Whitlock, Kristian Thomas, Louis Smith, Sam Oldham and Daniel Purvis) put in superlative performances and qualified in third place for Monday's team final and secured five places in individual finals on the opening day. GB finished behind the United States and Russia having outscored Olympic and world champions China in their session. The result is the finest for Britain's men in modern gymnastics history Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

The British women's handball team lost their Olympic debut, going down 31-19 to one of the tournament favourites Montenegro Photograph: Jeff Gross/Getty Images

Great Britain's Ashley McKenzie takes on Japan's Hiroaki Hiraoka in the men's -60kg competition Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

Unfortunately the Brit, who was our best hope of a judo medal, lost his bout and is out of the competition Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Great Britain rowers Heather Stanning and Helen Glover won their women's pair heat in an Olympic record time Photograph: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images

Robbie Renwick missed out on qualifying for the final of the 400m freestyle by 19 hundredths of a second Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

There were high hopes for Hannah Miley but she finished fifth and therefore didn't make the podium as 16-year-old Ye Shiwen of China broke the world record to win 400m individual medley gold Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

A despondent looking Jennifer McIntosh went out of the women's 10m air rifle during the qualifying session Photograph: Jamie McPhilimey/NOPP

Joanna Parker, Britain's only representative in the women's singles, beat Brazil's Caroline Kumahara 4-0 to book a second-round clash with world No47 Kristin Silbereisen. Her boyfriend and fellow table tennis player Paul Drinkhall also won his match against Kuwait's Ibrahem Al-Hasan in straight games. He will play Singapore's Zi Yang next Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

Elena Baltacha marked her Olympic debut with a 6-3, 6-4 singles win over Agnes Szavay. However Anne Keothavong lost her singles match against Caroline Wozniacki 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images

Andy and Jamie Murray suffered a disappointing first-round exit (5-7, 7-6, 7-5) against Austria's Jurgen Melzer and Alexander Peya. Britain's other hopes in the men's doubles, Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins, were beaten 7-5, 6-3 by Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters

Heather Watson and Laura Robson let an early lead slip against Angelique Kerber and Sabine Lisicki and paid the price as they went out of the women's doubles 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

The women's volleyball team lost to Russia by three sets to nil (25-19, 25-10, 25-16) Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters