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Olympics 2024: Adam Peaty, Kimberley Woods win medals for Workforce GB in Paris as Andy Murray claims epic doubles win
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Olympics 2024: Adam Peaty, Kimberley Woods win medals for Workforce GB in Paris as Andy Murray claims epic doubles win

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By Tycoon Herald 11 Min Read Published July 28, 2024
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Adam Peaty was unable to hitch the nice Michael Phelps within the report books after struggling his first particular person defeat in an Olympics closing within the males’s 100m breaststroke.

Peaty was searching for to turn out to be simply the second male swimmer after Phelps to win the identical occasion at three successive Olympics however Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi claimed a shocking upset victory from lane seven.

His time of 59.03 seconds was two hundredths of a second faster than Peaty, who touched the wall similtaneously America’s Nic Fink, that means they are going to share the silver medal.

Olympics 2024: Adam Peaty, Kimberley Woods win medals for Workforce GB in Paris as Andy Murray claims epic doubles win
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Adam Peaty received breaststroke gold in Rio in 2016 and in Tokyo three years in the past

Peaty’s silver was one in all two medals received by Workforce GB on day two, as Kimberley Woods claimed a dramatic bronze within the girls’s kayak closing, whereas a dramatic comeback win from Andy Murray and Dan Evans within the males’s doubles as among the many different standout performances on an eventful Sunday.

Peaty and Woods add to Workforce GB’s medal tally

Qin Haiyang was considered Peaty’s foremost rival however the Chinese language completed a disappointing seventh. Qin hit the entrance in Sunday’s showpiece and led at midway however Peaty – quickest within the semi-finals reeled him in, solely to be pipped by Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Martinenghi.

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“I did as well as I could,” Peaty mentioned. “It isn’t concerning the finish aim, it is all concerning the course of and it does not matter what the time says on the rating, in my coronary heart I’ve already received. I am not crying as a result of I’ve come second, I am crying as a result of it simply took a lot to get right here.

“It was incredibly hard to win it once and to win it again. I’m trying to find new ways to do it. Everything that happened to this point I think has happened for a reason and I’m so happy that I can race the best in the world and I came joint-second.”

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Adam Peaty completed joint-second and claimed silver alongside USA’s Nic Fink

Earlier within the day, Woods was sitting in third place with only one competitor who may knock her off the Paris podium within the kayak closing – defending champion Ricarda Funk, the quickest finisher from the afternoon’s semi-finals.

However the German made a mistake on the backside of the course to incur a 50-second penalty and end eleventh in 149.08 seconds, making certain Woods’ 98.94 was ok for her first Olympic medal behind first-placed Australian Jessica Fox and Poland’s Klaudia Zwolinska.

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Kimberley Woods secured Workforce GB’s first medal of day two

“It feels absolutely incredible,” Woods mentioned. “I can’t believe how long my journey’s been. Ricarda Funk coming down, I couldn’t watch. I was on my knees, I was head in hands not being able to watch and all of a sudden I heard the crowd shout something and there was a mistake and I was like, ‘oh my god, I can’t believe I’ve done it.'”

Who else impressed for Workforce GB?

Murray and Evans are by way of to the final 16 of the lads’s doubles after saving 5 match factors earlier than defeating Japan’s Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori 2-6 7-6 (5) 11-9.

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Britain's Andy Murray waves to the Center Court crowd as he leaves following his first round doubles loss at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Novak Djokovic wished Andy Murray the very best farewell forward of his final singles event and divulges how lengthy he feels he has remaining in tennis.

Within the males’s singles, Jack Draper beat Nishikori 6-1, 6-4, Evans defeated Moez Echargui 6-2 4-6 6-2, whereas fellow Brit Cameron Norrie pulled out by way of harm. Katie Boulter is out within the girls’s singles after dropping 6-4 6-2 to Slovenia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.

Within the pool, Duncan Scott and Matt Richards each certified for the lads’s 200m freestyle closing, Angharad Evans certified for the ladies’s 100m breaststroke closing and Ollie Morgan made the lads’s 100m backstroke closing.

Workforce GB’s eventing staff are arrange for a profitable closing day on Monday, sitting prime of the standings after the cross-country part. Laura Collett is second within the particular person standings, having picked up 0.8 of a time-fault through the cross-country to sit down on 18.3.

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Tom McEwen stays on his dressage rating of 25.8 and is sixth after a transparent run, whereas Ros Canter is at the moment twenty fourth after being awarded 15 penalties through the cross-country and an enchantment being unsuccessful.

In inventive gymnastics, Becky Downie, Abi Martin, Georgia Mae-Fenton and Ruby Evans certified for Tuesday’s girls’s staff closing after ending prime of their sub-division with a rating of 160.830.

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Mae-Fenton and Kinsella additionally certified for the person all-around closing, whereas Downie, who missed Tokyo as a result of dying of her brother, certified for the uneven bars.

Elsewhere, Evie Richards completed fifth within the girls’s cross-country mountain biking and 25 seconds off a medal, whereas medal hopeful Chelsie Giles misplaced to Brazil’s Larissa Pimenta within the judo girls’s 52kg spherical of 16.

Rosie Eccles was defeated in controversial circumstance by Aneta Rygielska within the boxing girls’s 66kg spherical of 32, with Pat Brown additionally making an early exit after misplaced 4-1 on factors in his heavyweight spherical of 16 combat in opposition to Brazil’s Keno Machado.

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Boxing

Geraint Hughes explains Workforce GB’s Charley Davison and Rosie Eccles’ controversial boxing exits on the Olympics.

The ladies’s hockey staff misplaced their opening sport 2-1 in opposition to Spain, with Giselle Ansley scoring the aspect’s solitary aim, as the lads’s staff drew 2-2 with South Africa to proceed their unbeaten begin.

The way to comply with the Olympics on Sky

Preserve updated with the motion from the Paris 2024 Olympics throughout Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms and Sky Sports activities Information day-after-day between now and Sunday August 11.

Alongside reside information blogs and updates as data are damaged and medals received on skysports.com and the Sky Sports activities app, Sky Sports activities Information may even have devoted reporters on the scene in Paris through the Video games to assemble the most recent information each inside and out of doors the arenas in France in addition to response to the large moments from medal winners, coaches, family and pundits.

Launching this August, Sky Sports activities+ will probably be built-in into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports activities app – giving Sky Sports activities clients entry to over 50 per cent extra reside sport this 12 months at no further value.

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