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It's been a busy Bank Holiday weekend for the Olympics and British preparations.

While you were sunning yourself in a traffic jam on the M6, the likes of Zara Phillips and William Fox-Pitt were . Now they have to wait for the GB selectors to rubber-stamp the names for Beijing.

And if the water was just warm enough for you to stand a dip off the Blackpool coast, spare a thought for David Davies, Cassandra Patten and Keri-Anne Payne - who each swam a whopping 10km in Seville, in the World Open Water Championships.

All three of them performed well - and took silver, Payne came eighth - and they've all qualified for the Olympics. Davies might drop out of the 10km race to concentrate on his 1500m event at Beijing, but we reckon he'll sign up for both.

There was also with the British trials in Nottingham. Those races produced a team of 15 for the European Championships in Milan in a couple of weeks' time, where there are eight more Olympic places up for grabs.

Struggling to keep on top of this? We've got a for all the Olympic sports, but another way to do it is to listen to 大象传媒 Radio 5 Live's Road to Beijing.

Once or twice each month, Mark Saggers presents a 90-minute special edition of 5 Live Sport, packed with Olympic guests.

On Tuesday night's programme Mark is joined by his regular team of former Olympians, sprinter Katharine Merry and swimmer Steve Parry, plus the 大象传媒's athletics commentator Mike Costello and tennis correspondent Jonathan Overend.

As I write the guest list includes Peter Keen, the Head of Performance at UK Sport and - plus, from the world of rowing, British coach .

Zimbabwean swimming star Kirsty Coventry, who in Manchester last month, will talk about the volatile situation back home.

And hear from top tennis player Andy Roddick on just how much the Olympics means to the sport. When you've got Wimbledon and the US Open to worry about, does Beijing mean much - if anything? It does to . He won silver in the doubles at the 1996 Games, and he'll be live on the show.

As ever with radio this line-up may be subject to change, but if you're keen on the Olympics it'll be unmissable.

(Of course if you do miss it, you can listen again on the 5 Live website, and we'll include the best bits in future editions of our podcast. We make becoming an Olympic genius easy.)