AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!

By inches!

This is head to head, GB v Italy, for gold here - and to finish top of the medal table.

Italy lead around the last bend, what can Charlie do!

Ben Jeffries hands to Charlie Dobson for the final leg.

Italy have taken the lead. What can Dobson do?

Toby Harries hands to Ben Jeffries, having powered Britain into the lead!

Belgium are up to second, Italy third.

Hudson-Smith hands to Toby Harries.

Britain are currently second to Italy.

Matthew Hudson-Smith runs the first leg for GB here.

Away they go.

There was a slight collision between Hudson-Smith and the Italians during the warm-ups as the men went through their sprints. All settled with handshakes, no issues there.

Or was it mind games?

Greg Rutherford
Former world and Olympic long jump champion on BBC One

We are so close in the table. Every medal counts.

Matthew Hudson-Smith, who has a stand at Alexander Stadium named after him, became the joint-most decorated European male athlete of all-time by claiming a dominant 400m gold on Wednesday.

The 31-year-old secured his eighth medal at the championships to equal French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre's record medal tally for men.

He has five European gold medals and is level with Roger Black, Sir Mo Farah and Zharnel Hughes as the joint most won by a British man.

Hudson-Smith could add to his total in the men's 4x400m relay final on Sunday.

Norway's Ingebrigtsen is the most successful European male athlete of all time with seven golds.

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It would be a fitting way to conclude these championships if poster boy Matthew Hudson-Smith could anchor Great Britain to gold on his home track in front of a packed stand bearing his name.

The 400m champion from Wolverhampton concedes this will likely be his last European Championships, and a ninth medal would make him its most-decorated man.

Great Britain have won an unrivalled 10 European titles in this event, latterly in 2022, but were beaten in the heats by European indoor gold medallists Netherlands.

Belgium are the reigning champions, while Italy set a national record in the heats.

Greg Rutherford
Former world and Olympic long jump champion on BBC One

The fact Mondo Duplantis is here and he has that desire and hunger. It is amazing to see and it is something all the athletes should draw on.

Mondo Duplantis has already had plenty to celebrate this summer. The three-time European champion got married to his long-time partner Desire Inglander in June.

Inglander is watching from the stands in Birmingham and she's sat beside Kurtis Marschall - the Australian athlete that handed Duplantis his first defeat in three years at June's Diamond League event in Stockholm.

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Colin Jackson
Two-time world 110m hurdles champion on BBC One

Our women stayed strong and they stayed committed. They really thought about what they could do.

Why not attack Femke Bol? She has spent time on her endurance work and not her sprinting. That is what Emily Newnham did.

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Andrew Cotter
Commentator on BBC One

Well, it was closer than I thought it would be on that final leg.

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Femke Broeders-Bol is one of the greatest of all time over 400m, she brings the Dutch home to a third straight European gold medal.

But Emily Newnham stuck to her like glue, she put in a terrific performance to run 49.8 seconds in that final leg and secure a silver for Britain.

Italy take bronze.

Side by side around the final curve...

It is Femke Broeders-Bol versus Emily Newnham for the gold here.

Final leg - Netherlands v Britain.

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Nicole Yeargin with a clean take, GB still in second.

But it will take something remarkable to catch the Dutch.

France lead after the first leg, run for them by Isabelle Black - daughter of GB great Roger Black.

But the Dutch have now hit the front, followed by GB.