Crew GB received their first opening-day Olympic medals in 20 years as they took silver and bronze on the primary day of Paris 2024.
Divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen acquired Nice Britain up and working with a bronze medal – through dramatic circumstances – within the girls’s 3m synchronised springboard.
The pair took benefit of a final-round slip from the Australia pair to turned the primary British girls to win an Olympic medal in diving since Elizabeth Ferris received bronze within the 10m platform in Rome in 1960, with the success the primary opening-day medal for Crew GB because the 2004 video games in Athens.
Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen secured bronze within the girls’s 3m synchronised diving occasion, simply hours into the primary official day of the 2024 Olympics.
Bicycle owner Anna Henderson adopted up with silver within the girls’s time trial, the place a number of riders crashed within the treacherous circumstances, because the Hemel Hempstead-born rider saved her cool to say second behind Australian Grace Brown.
Early medals for Crew GB
Henderson clocked a time of 41 minutes 10.7 seconds over the 32.4km course by means of the centre of Paris, one minute 31 seconds down on Brown’s gold medal-winning journey.
Chloe Dygert was amongst these to hit the deck and that proved essential as she misplaced the 15-second benefit she had held over Henderson on the first intermediate time examine and got here dwelling 9 tenths of a second off the Brit’s time.
“I did not realise how slippery it was on the market till I used to be on the course,” Henderson stated. “I believed I may lose a complete Olympic Video games on one nook right here, so actually take management and achieve all the time within the straights.”
Mew Jensen admitted it was “loopy” to have secured Crew GB’s first medal of Paris 2024, having plummeted down the scoreboard into sixth after scoring 63.90 within the third spherical.
Crew GB’s Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen give their response after securing bronze within the girls’s 3m synchronised diving occasion on the 2024 Olympics.
Crew GB scored 71.10 within the subsequent effort to claw their manner again into fourth place and added a strong 70.68 within the fifth spherical, earlier than a dramatic twist of occasions noticed Anabelle Smith slip on the diving board throughout her take-off and depart Australia wanting the required whole for bronze.
“I do not suppose I can fairly imagine it,” Mew Jensen stated. “I am tremendous happy with Yas, tremendous happy with myself and tremendous happy with the staff. We have labored insanely arduous and could not have come out with a greater end result, so actually glad.”
Peaty stays on the right track for historic threepeat
Adam Peaty stays on the right track for a historic third Olympic title within the males’s 100 metres breaststroke as he arrange a tantalising showdown in opposition to Qin Haiyang in Sunday’s ultimate.
Adam Peaty will characteristic within the 100m breaststroke ultimate on Sunday night
Each received their respective semi-finals however it’s Peaty who has the psychological higher hand after clocking 58.86 seconds, which was 0.07 secs faster than his Chinese language rival at La Protection Enviornment.
The 29-year-old is in search of to develop into simply the second male swimmer after Michael Phelps to win Olympic gold at three successive Video games, having triumphed at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, whereas compatriot James Wilby was unable to hitch him within the ultimate after ending 0.11s outdoors the highest eight qualifying instances.
Adam Peaty says successful a 3rd particular person gold medal could be his best achievement and he is hinted that this yr’s video games could possibly be his final.
Peaty’s efficiency took the sting out of a disappointing evening within the pool for Crew GB as the boys’s and girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay groups completed outdoors the rostrum positions.
Matt Richards, Jacob Whittle, Tom Dean and Duncan Scott completed fifth for the boys, 2.33s behind the winners United States, whereas Anna Hopkin, Eva Okaro, Lucy Hope and Freya Anderson got here in seventh, 6.33 behind gold medallists Australia.
Which different Brits have been in motion?
Max Whitlock was one in all a record-breaking variety of eight British male gymnasts to seal their locations in particular person finals, with Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse by means of on flooring, Harry Hepworth on rings, Hepworth and Jarman on vault, and Jarman and Joe Fraser within the all-around.
Favorite Olympics reminiscence? Dream athlete to talk to? Get to know Max Whitlock, essentially the most profitable gymnast in British historical past, forward of the Paris Olympics.
The respective successes of Hepworth and Jarman additionally imply it will likely be the primary time in historical past that Nice Britain has been represented in both a vault or rings ultimate on the Olympics.
Nice Britain’s males’s hockey gamers romped to a 4-0 Pool A win over Spain as they opened their bid for Olympic hockey gold in some fashion, with Gareth Furlong scoring twice and Nick Park and Rupert Shipperley finishing the scoring.
Josh Tarling completed in fourth within the males’s time trial, simply two seconds off a medal, following an early puncture.
In equestrian, it was a record-breaking day for Crew GB’s eventers, as Laura Collett and her horse London 52 made the bottom particular person Olympic rating within the eventing dressage with 17.50. Crew GB scored 66.70 total, which can also be an Olympic document.
Badminton gamers Ben Lane and Sean Vendy misplaced their opening males’s doubles match to Malaysia, whereas boxer Charley Davison was knocked out through cut up determination in her spherical of 32 bantamweight conflict.
What else occurred on day one?
Antoine Dupont described France’s Olympic rugby sevens gold as “sensational and unbelievable”, together with his match-winning contribution seeing Les Blues struggle again from an early deficit to say a 28-7 success and inflict Fiji’s first defeat in Olympic competitors.
Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz launched their blockbuster partnership in fashion with victory over sixth seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni at Roland Garros, claiming a 7-6 (4) 6-4 first-round victory within the males’s doubles.
Nadal nonetheless had strapping on his proper thigh and it stays to be seen whether or not the 14-time French Open champion will contest his scheduled singles match in opposition to Marton Fucsovics on Sunday, with the Spaniard admitting he was uncertain whether or not he would characteristic.
Watch an prolonged interview with Andy Murray as he prepares for his ultimate ever tennis match. He explains his determination to retire, what he’ll do subsequent and why the Olympics was the right place to say farewell.
Novak Djokovic criticised Olympic entry guidelines after a one-sided victory over Matthew Ebden within the opening spherical at a wet Roland Garros, having taken simply 53 minutes to defeat the Australian alternate 6-0 6-1.
“I actually do not perceive the foundations, they’re actually not logical for me,” Djokovic stated. “I do not suppose it is a good picture for the game, to be trustworthy. There have been lots of singles gamers that had loads of time, that have been alternates, that might have been referred to as to come back.”
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