Olympics: Team GB win two medals in an hour

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Team GB is back to its medal-winning ways after winning two Olympic golds in an hour - in women's boxing and dressage - boosting the total to 24.

GB's Nicola Adams made history as first-ever Olympic champion in women's boxing, in the flyweight category.

Earlier, Charlotte Dujardin won her second gold of the Games in individual dressage at Greenwich Park.

The gold rush followed disappointment for Kerri-Anne Payne, who narrowly missed a medal in the 10k open swim.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has said schoolchildren should be made to do two hours a day of PE as part of the Olympic legacy, saying it would be "wonderful for kids across this country".

Marathon runner Paula Radcliffe has also called for more competitive sports in schools to ensure the sporting legacy. She said it was the "biggest failure" in British sport that young children were not given greater chances to take part.

Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have congratulated rowing gold medallists Andy Triggs Hodge, Kat Copeland and Sophie Hosking on a visit to Team GB House in Stratford, east London.

And London Underground cleaners have launched a 48-hour strike and are picketing stations including Stratford after not getting an Olympics bonus.

Team GB has now won 24 golds, 13 silvers and 14 bronzes, strengthening its hold on third place in the medal table.

In the boxing ring, Adams, 29, from Leeds, took on China's Ren Cancan after defeating India's five-time world champion Mary Kom 24 hours earlier.

"It's like a dream come true to me, I've just wanted this all my life, and to think I've finally done it, and I'm finally here, with all this support, it's really made my day," she said.

Dujardin, 27, won her second gold on her 10-year-old horse Valegro after a display set to patriotic music including Land Of Hope And Glory and The Great Escape. Holland's Adelinde Cornelissen claimed silver and Britain's Laura Bechtolsheimer won bronze.

Earlier, one of Team GB's best hopes was Payne, a silver medallist in the open water swim in Beijing and hoping to go one better in London.

But despite a noisy home support - her Team GB swimming team-mates and Prime Minister David Cameron were among the crowds who packed the banks of the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park - she narrowly missed out on a medal, coming fourth.

Meanwhile, the South African 4x400m relay team, which includes Oscar Pistorius, has been granted a position in the final following an appeal.

Pistorius - nicknamed "Blade Runner" because of his prosthetic legs - did not get to run in the heat as his team-mate Ofentse Mogawane was sent sprawling to the ground after a collision with a Kenyan rival. The judges have since reinstated the South Africans.

Away from the medals, London Underground's Phil Hufton said the dispute over the cleaners was a matter between its private contractors and their staff.

He said contingencies were in place and that London Underground anticipated "no impact" on services as a result of the strike.

One 52-year-old female London Underground cleaner - who declined to be named - says her workload had significantly increased since the Olympics began.

"There's been a lot more incidents of people throwing rubbish around, like free newspapers, Olympic leaflets and maps, and lots of fast food.

"It's not just the Olympic bonus that we're unhappy about. Olympic ambassadors get free travel and the cleaners don't. We think this is unfair too."

Initial Facilities, one of the contractors, said it paid its employees the "London Living Wage" and that it was providing free Underground travel for staff during their shift throughout the Games period.

In other developments:

<ul> <li> <a href="/sport/0/olympics/18914012" title="Irish hero Taylor wins gold medal" >Ireland has won its first gold medal </a>of London 2012 after lightweight Katie Taylor beat Sofya Ochigava in the women's boxing</li> <li> Britain's <a href="/sport/0/olympics/18914952" title="Jones progresses as Stamper exits" >Jade Jones will win at least an Olympic taekwondo silver</a> medal after beating world number one Li-Cheng Tseng from Chinese Taipei in the semi-finals</li> <li> Kenya's <a href="/sport/0/olympics/18914380" title="Rudisha breaks record in 800m win" >David Rudisha became the first athlete</a> to set a new world record on the track as he won 800m gold </li> <li> The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Locog) said the two millionth ticketed spectator passed through the Olympic Park since the beginning of the Games, with 6.9m spectators having seen Olympic sports overall</li> <li> The hospitality centre for African nations competing in the Olympics<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19190778" > has closed because of unpaid debts.</a> Africa Village, set up in Kensington Gardens, west London, owes suppliers hundreds of thousands of pounds, a spokesman said</li> <li> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18913334" >Britain's Rachel Cawthorn finished sixth </a>in the kayak single 500m final</li> <li> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w32g9" >Team GB's Jade Jones and Martin Stamper</a> made it through to the taekwondo quarter-finals </li> <li> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18913382" >Team GB qualified for the men's 4x400m relay</a> after a season's best performance by Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams, Jack Green and Martyn Rooney </li> <li> "I'm delighted we are sailing as high as we are," said Locog chairman Seb Coe of Britain's position in the medals table. But he said what drives young people into sport are the "extraordinary moments" in rowing, or athletics, say, and athletes have "filled their boots" with those</li> </ul>

Day 13 of the Games will see one of the highlights of the athletics programme. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is aiming to achieve an unprecedented "double double".

He won the 100m and 200m races at the Beijing Games and is aiming to complete the same double as he lines up for the 200m at London's Olympic Stadium.

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