Sir Mo Farah, anyone' Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Dame Laura Trott'It wasn't quite London 2012, but Super Saturday at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro still lived up to its billing from a British perspective. The stars we wanted to perform all did, adding to Team GB's medal haul, which continues to grow with each day in Rio.Come the end of Day 8, Great Britain had swelled their tally to 30 medals, made up of 10 golds, 13 silvers and 7 bronze. That's one more than at the same stage in 2012.There were disappointments, notably long jumper Greg Rutherford only managing a bronze medal and not the gold he won he four years ago in London.Mo Farah lived up to the hype, though, with a formidable performance in the 10,000-meter run to defend his Olympic title and earn his third Olympic gold medal.Laura Trott also claimed her third Olympic gold when Team GB won the women's team pursuit, and we mustn't forget the eight men's rowers who also claimed Olympic gold, with the women winning a silverthey're first medal ever at the Olympics. In the pool, Britain also claimed silver in the men's 4x100-meter relay.Completing a fine day for British sport, Ennis-Hill took silver in the heptathlon, being beaten to the gold by Belgian Nafissatou Thiam by just 35 points.For all the success Britain tasted on Super Saturday, it was the exploits of Farah, Trott and Ennis-Hill that really stood out. The trio are serial winners, and when we consider knights of the realm have been awarded their titles for much less, surely they are deserving.Trott only turned 24 in April, but what she is doing for women's cycling continues to astonish. She is a phenomenal force in the saddle, continuing what the likes of Victoria Pendleton started in the velodrome.Whereas Pendleton only won two golds in her careeryes, onlyTrott's third on Saturday has allowed her to surpass her predecessor as the sport's poster girl. She arrived in Rio as half of Team GB's cycling power coupleTrott is engaged to Jason Kenny, a four-time Olympic gold medallist himselfwith plenty of focus on what she could achieve.Despite the glare of the spotlight, she continues to deliver. That's a testament to her ability as a cyclist and says so much about her mentality. Being so young, we've seen sports stars with lower profiles allow it to inflate their ego and damage performance.Not Trott.She's all about substance and delivering when it matters. In Rio, she's doing this as part of an incredible team of cyclists.If we're talking about substance, what Farah continues to achieve in long-distance running at the Olympics is outstanding. Eight years ago he didn't even qualify for the 10,000-meter final at the Beijing Olympics, yet here he is now, a three-time Olympic champion.He still has the 5,000-meter run to come, so in the next few days we could be talking about a fourth gold medal.Even before that race happens, Farah's exploits outstrip anything from Britain's finest track athletes. Lord Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett are the names that stand out in British athletics, and even they didn't win three Olympic golds.It puts things into perspective where Farah stands in his sport. The fact he was tripped midway through this race and had to pick himself up and catch up to the leaders of the pack only adds to the fairytale.There was still plenty more to do when he tumbled, but for most sportsmen, that would have knocked them off their stride; it would have eaten at their confidence and played tricks with the mind. Not Farah. If anything, his focus intensified.Indeed, it wasn't until he crossed the line victorious that he noticed the bumps and bruises he had suffered while competing and could wince in the pain of it all.As for Ennis-Hill, silver is one less than the gold she took in London, but the circumstances were different four years ago. Everything had been about London for her; even Team GB's build-up to the Games had circled around what she could achieve. Winning was expected.The bar remained just as high this time, but it was more in hope than expectation. Since London, she has gotten married, become a mum and suffered a number of setbacks on her road to Rio. Competing the way she did, coming within a whisker of retaining her title, tells us everything we need to know about her.Ennis-Hill is empowering women young and old throughout Britain. Just by reaching Rio, let alone taking silver, she proved how hard work and dedication to your craft can overcome barriers. Male or female, it's about the person when we look at Ennis-Hill, and that is changing mindsets.She pushed back boundaries before2012, and now at Rio, she continues to do the same. Ennis-Hill is a credit to British sport; she's one of the finest sportswomen Britain has ever produced.The whole concept of a knighthood in the British honours system is to reward those who have been warriors in the union's name. Pre-modern times, that largely meant soldiers and army generals, politicians and diplomats who created an empire. In the 21st century, it's about those who maintain the British name.Farah, Trott and Ennis-Hill have all done that, and they continue to do that. They're Britain's Olympic warriors, and they should be honoured as such.
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