‘We went for gold today and fell short, but I’m still really proud’published at 11:46 11:46 GB win women’s four silver Great Britain’s women’s four team have been speaking on BBC One after narrowly missing out on gold to the Netherlands. Esme Booth: “I think out on the water, we had our race plan that...
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Great Britain swimmer ‘absolutely gutted’ after 200-meter backstroke disqualification
Great Britain had a good day in the pool Wednesday, finishing with a bronze in women’s synchronized 10m diving, but disaster struck during the men’s 200-meter backstroke heats at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Luke Greenbank finished first in the fourth and final 200 backstroke heat with a time of 1:56, but he didn’t advance to...
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Paris 2024: Northern Ireland athletes in action on day six at the Olympics
As recently as Tuesday morning, athletes from Northern Ireland had accounted for three gold medals in the history of the Olympic Games. In the space of around 16 hours, Daniel Wiffen, Jack McMillan and Hannah Scott doubled that tally. Incredibly there could still be so much more to come. Indeed, having waited 36 years to...
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Five days, 17 medals and the best start to a Games for 112 years. It’s great, Britain!
Britain is living through an unparalleled era of Olympic success. As recently as Atlanta 1996, the team mustered just one solitary gold, thanks to Steve Redgrave and his crew-mates in the coxless four. From 2012, they have hit 29, 27 and 22, with every chance of a fourth straight 20-plus haul in Paris. What renders...
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Olympic Games 2024: What to expect from the Scots on Saturday
After a day off to rest his tin hip and tired mind, Murray will be back on the Roland Garros dirt. He and partner Dan Evans play Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul of the United States with a semi-final place at stake (from 17:00). Win, and they’re one match from a medal. Lose, and the...
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Great Britain’s boxing hopes rest on Lewis Richardson as wipeout is avoided
Lewis Richardson saved Great Britain’s boxing team from their first Olympic wipeout since 1996 after victory in his opening 71kg contest in Paris on Wednesday evening. A narrow defeat for middleweight Chantelle Reid earlier on Wednesday had left the British team facing the prospect of returning from the French capital with all six of their...
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Olympics boxing: Lewis Richardson through to quarter-finals
Lewis Richardson kept Team GB’s hopes alive in the Olympic boxing ring with a split-decision victory over Serbia’s Vakhid Abbasov. Of the six British boxers in Paris, five exited in the first round – a far cry from the Tokyo Games three years ago, when GB won six medals, including two golds, for their biggest...
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Olympic gymnastics: Shinnosuke Oka wins gold but Joe Fraser & Jake Jarman miss podium
“To finish fifth in an Olympic Games, I couldn’t be prouder,” said Fraser, who came ninth in the final in Tokyo. “For me it was all about having fun today. “I was really disappointed after the team final so I felt I had nothing to lose and went for everything I wanted to.” Jarman, meanwhile,...
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Great Britain’s Joe Fraser and Jake Jarman fall short in all-around final
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Joe Fraser and Jake Jarman fell short of gaining Great Britain’s first gymnastics medals of the Paris Olympics in the men’s all-around final at Bercy....
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Olympics 2024 LIVE: Results and medal count as Marchand wins historic double gold
Alex Yee wins spectacular gold with unbelievable comeback in the men’s triathlon Leon Marchand produced fireworks on a historic night in the pool on day five of the Olympics. An incredible swim in the 200m butterfly to win gold in an Olympic record was then backed up to complete an unprecedented double gold in a...
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Great Britain puts two athletes into individual last 16 as lightning closes venue
Great Britain’s Megan Havers and Tom Hall made the last 16 at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, putting out two host nation archers on the way. None of the British team had put in an impressive qualification, and both men’s and women’s teams had gone out in the first round on Sunday and Monday. But...
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Paris 2024: Olympic champion Hannah Scott’s life is about to change forever
Hannah Scott embodies all the qualities required to win an Olympic medal: resilience, determination, strength of mind and body and sheer willpower to see the race through to the end. In an Olympic final that must be considered a classic of the genre, the Team GB quad sculls crew of Scott, Georgie Brayshaw, Lola Anderson...