Heavy rain fell throughout Thursday morning in the French capital, with standing water present on the track in Stade de France. But Nicholson made light of the conditions as she threw 9.44 metres – just 0.03m short of her personal best – to claim third place. Mariia Pomazan of Ukraine and China’s Wang Jun were...
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Storey kicked things off for ParalympicsGB on Wednesday morning by extending her record as Great Britain’s most decorated Paralympian. An astonishing 32 years on from her Paralympic debut at Barcelona in 1992, Storey won by 4.69 seconds from France’s Heidi Gaugain, 27 years Storey’s junior. Gaugain, 19, was born in November 2004 – by then...
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