Workforce GB received six medals on day three of the Paris Olympics, together with Tom Pidcock successful an exciting mountain bike closing and Tom Daley claiming diving silver.
Pidcock stormed again from a entrance tyre puncture to defend his Olympic gold from Tokyo three years in the past, overtaking French hope Victor Koretzky on the ultimate lap.
His race was at risk of unravelling when he discovered himself 35 seconds adrift after affected by a flat entrance tyre on the fourth of eight laps of the 4.4 km circuit carved in to Elancourt Hill.
Tom Pidcock celebrates after recovering from a puncture to retain his Olympic mountain bike cross nation title
However Pidcock fought his manner again to reclaim the lead with a lap and a half to go, earlier than the lead modified fingers twice extra within the final couple of kilometres – the pair dramatically touching wheels at one level earlier than the Brit burst ahead to take the win.
The partisan French crowd booed him as he crossed the road 9 seconds forward of Koretzky, with South Africa’s Alan Hatherly in third.
Pidcock, who needed to pull out of the Tour de France about two weeks in the past when he contracted COVID-19, joins Paola Pezzo and Julien Absalon as the one riders with two mountain bike Olympic gold medals.
“It wasn’t easy,” Pidcock advised the BBC. “The Olympics is so particular and also you by no means hand over. You give every part and that is what I needed to do. I knew Victor [Koretzky] was going to be superfast on the final lap. I knew it was going to be a giant, large struggle. He left a niche and I needed to go for it.
“That’s racing. Some people might do it differently but I wanted to show what the sport is. Not giving up. It’s a shame the French were booing me.”
Daley completes medal set with Olympic silver in Paris
Earlier on Monday, Daley and accomplice Noah Williams produced six sensible dives within the males’s 10m synchro diving closing to take dwelling the silver medal.
Britain’s Tom Daley and Noah Williams have a good time on the rostrum after successful the silver within the males’s synchro 10m platform diving closing
The pair have been in the end overwhelmed into the gold medal place by flawless Chinese language duo Lian Junjie and Hao Yang, who led from the primary spherical and completed on 490.35 factors.
Daley and Williams completed on 463.44 factors, whereas Canada’s Ryan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray claimed the bronze.
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Hear from Olympic silver medal successful duo Tom Daley and Noah Williams about their partnership and the way it earned them each a medal plus what the longer term might have in retailer.
Daley was competing at a fifth Olympic Video games, getting back from a two-year break from diving after he received gold through the delayed 2021 Tokyo Video games.
Daley’s husband Dustin Lance Black and sons, Robbie and Phoenix, have been in attendance, with the 30-year-old having stated that having the ability to dive in entrance of them at an Olympics was a consider his determination to return.
His silver in Paris is his fifth Olympic medal and sees him full the set, as he secured three bronze medals throughout his dwelling video games in London 2012, Rio 2016 and within the 10m platform at Tokyo to go together with his synchro gold.
“It’s just so special,” Daley advised the BBC. “To be here, in Paris, diving in front of my son [Robbie], who actually asked me to come back, it’s just so special. He’s six years old now and I think he might remember some of this. It completes the set. I now have one of every colour.”
On the potential of additionally competing in 4 years’ time at Los Angeles 2028, Daley added: “I don’t know. Right now I want to enjoy today and then we’ll see what the future holds.”
Nice Britain win first gold medal in group eventing
Workforce GB received their first gold medal of Paris 2024 as equestrian eventing riders Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen emerged victorious within the group occasion on Monday.
The British group ended the three-day competitors with a mixed rating of 91.3 penalty factors, forward of France in silver with 103.6 and Japan who took the bronze with 115.8.
It is a fifth gold for Workforce GB since eventing has been on the Olympic programme, making them probably the most profitable eventing nation ever.
“I am on top of the world,” Collett, who was secured a person eventing bronze, advised the BBC. “I have never ridden in an atmosphere like that. Thankfully I have a trusty horse and team-mates as well and thankfully we brought it home.”
McEwen stated: “It was a class last round from Laura to get the gold, the first of the Games. It has been a rollercoaster but we rose to the occasion.”
What different medals did Workforce GB win?
Elsewhere on Monday, Workforce GB’s Adam Burgess received a silver medal within the males’s canoe single closing.
It was redemption for Burgess, who avenged his maiden closing from three summers in the past in Tokyo, the place he completed fourth and missed out on a medal by simply 0.16 seconds.
In swimming, Matt Richards defied being in an out of doors lane to say Olympic silver within the males’s 200m freestyle – however he missed out on gold by an agonising two-hundredths of a second to Romanian sensation David Popovici.
Matthew Richards completed 0.02 seconds adrift of a gold medal place
Duncan Scott – who received silver within the occasion at Tokyo 2020 – completed fourth within the similar occasion, whereas Freya Constance Colbert additionally simply missed out on a medal within the girls’s 400m particular person medley.
Angharad Evans completed sixth within the girls’s 100m breaststroke and Ollie Morgan final of the eight within the males’s 100m backstroke closing.
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Dan Evans crashed out within the second spherical of the males’s tennis singles, shedding in straight units to Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, as Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury misplaced within the males’s doubles.
Scrumptious Orie felt Olympic gold was been “taken away” from him after shedding by cut up determination to Davit Chaloyan within the males’s boxing, with the super-heavyweight turning into the fourth British boxer to exit the Video games with out a victory.
There was disappointment within the males’s group archery for Workforce GB’s squad of Tom Corridor, Conor Corridor and Alex Sensible as they didn’t make the quarter-finals, shedding to fifth seeds Chinese language Taipei, whereas Workforce GB completed fourth within the group all-around closing of males’s inventive gymnastics.
British judo star Lele Nairne‘s Olympic hopes have been additionally ended with a 10-0 first-round defeat to Eteri Liparteliani of Georgia within the under-57 kilograms class.
The girls’s hockey group misplaced 4-0 to Australia and the girls’s rugby sevens group noticed their medal hopes ended by a quarter-final loss to the USA, as Liam Pitchford recorded a dominant 4-0 win in opposition to Fiji’s Vicky Wu within the desk tennis males’s singles.
And within the girls’s badminton, Workforce GB’s Kirsty Gilmour noticed off Azerbaijan’s Keisha Fatimah Azzahra in her first group match, successful 2-0 in straight units (21-13 21-11). Ben Lane and Sean Vendy received their closing group match however didn’t qualify for the quarter-finals.
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