Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull have been compelled to accept Olympic males’s group dash silver for Nice Britain as skateboarding star Sky Brown secured a bronze medal, regardless of dislocating her shoulder earlier than the Video games.
The British males took group dash silver as pre-race favourites the Netherlands broke the world report twice on their strategy to gold.
In a repeat of the consequence from the Tokyo Video games, the Dutch trio of Harrie Lavreysen, Jeffrey Hoogland and Roy van den Berg retained their title, breaking their very own world report within the first spherical after which once more within the last, profitable in a time of 40.949 seconds, nearly a second up on Staff GB.
Carlin, 27, was a part of the squad that took silver three years in the past alongside Sir Jason Kenny – now the coach – and the retired Ryan Owens, however this was by far the most important consequence within the careers of Turnbull, 25, and Lowe, simply 20.
Brown lands skateboard bronze
Britain’s Sky Brown made it back-to-back Olympic bronze medals
British skateboarding star Sky Brown secured a bronze medal, regardless of dislocating her shoulder earlier than the Video games.
Brown matched her bronze medal in Tokyo with a rating of 92.31 in her third of three runs to cap a outstanding comeback, having dislocated her shoulder final month, on the girls’s skateboard park competitors at La Concorde.
The 16-year-old had additionally been near tears after showing to worsen the damage throughout the qualifying competitors, through which she positioned fourth with a rating of 84.75 however fell closely over the past of her three runs.
A tearful Brown had vowed to “fight through” the ache, and her massive last run proved sufficient to return to the Olympic podium.
Brown defied a shoulder damage to say a medal
An enormous run from Australia’s Arisa Trew lifted the Australian into first place with Brown sitting second till the final skater, Cocona Hiraki, who additionally pipped her to silver in Tokyo on the age of 12, edged in entrance.
Nonetheless, it accomplished a outstanding comeback for Brown, who sustained a severe knee damage final yr, and had additionally suffered a fractured cranium in an accident simply over a yr previous to the Tokyo Video games.
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix missed out on claiming a second
Olympic medal in Paris
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix missed out on claiming a second Olympic medal at Paris 2024 after ending sixth within the girls’s 10m platform last.
The 19-year-old certified for the ultimate after ending third in Monday’s semi-finals and a powerful opening dive noticed her hovering outdoors the rostrum positions in fourth.
Nevertheless, a poor second spherical noticed her slip down the desk after scoring 62.40 and she or he was seventh after the fourth spherical.
She completed strongly with 81.60 on her last dive, however needed to accept a sixth-placed end.
Regardless of a irritating efficiency within the particular person competitors, Spendolini-Sirieix has already claimed one medal at these Video games within the 10m synchronised occasion with associate Lois Toulson final week.
China’s Quan Hongchan completed with gold in Tuesday’s particular person occasion after setting the usual within the first spherical, scoring an ideal dive to complete with 90 factors and claimed the highest spot with a powerful 425.60.
Her teammate Chen Yuxi took silver, with North Korea’s Kim Mi-rae ending with bronze.
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Laura Muir is participating in her third Olympics
Tokyo silver medallist Laura Muir comfortably certified for the ladies’s 1500m semi-finals after ending second in her warmth on the Stade de France.
The Scottish athlete wanted to land within the high six to e-book her spot and she or he completed that in 3:58.91, seven one hundredths of a second behind Ethiopia’s warmth winner, Gudaf Tsegay.
Muir, participating in her third Olympics, stated: “Ultimately it was all about trying to qualify for the semi-finals without any hiccups. I did that and it felt really smooth.
“I am not eager about the ultimate but, it’s all in regards to the semi-final. It’s so simple to get carried away.
“I’ve been here many times before and always made the final but I never took it for granted. All the focus is on reaching that final.”
She might be joined in Thursday’s semi-finals by Georgia Bell, who was topped British 1500m girls’s champion in June.
Victoria Ohuruogu wanted a primary place end to flee her personal repechage spherical and clocked a season’s finest 50.59 seconds to see herself by means of to the ladies’s 400m semi-final.
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