It has been an excellent start to day nine of the Olympics as Team GB’s athletes set more records and added to their impressive medal haul.
Duncan Scott sets Olympics medal record as GB swimmers win silver
Duncan Scott has become the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics as Team GB took silver in the men’s 4×100 metres medley relay final.
The quartet of Adam Peaty, Luke Greenbank, James Guy and Scott finished 0.73 seconds behind the United States, who secured gold in a world-record time of three minutes and 26.78 seconds. Italy took the bronze medal.
The result means that Team GB’s swim team have recorded their best-ever performance at an Olympics with four golds, three silvers and one bronze overall.
‘Over the next couple of days it’ll start to hit me what I’ve achieved in here,’ Scott said after picking up his fourth medal at Tokyo 2020.
‘It has been a strange one for me personally. Every race I’ve been delighted but there’s been a little bit of disappointment as well, that’s the natural high standards I try and set myself.
‘I am thrilled with that, but people with two golds and a silver, I think the rest of the team have done phenomenally well. Without incredible team-mates to race alongside I wouldn’t be where I am.’
Peaty, meanwhile, admits Team GB were disappointed to finish behind the USA in their latest final.
‘I think because we’re all natural racers, we love to win, we love to scrap, there’s got to be a little bit of disappointment there. It’s a silver medal, we’re right next to the world record but the US stepped it up more,’ said Peaty.
‘That’s sport, and kudos to them, but we’ve got to feel the pain, because if we don’t how do we come back stronger for Paris?
‘So we regret this moment, but also celebrate what we’ve had this week, we won’t lose touch of that. It’s amazing to see how far this team has come, especially from 2012, we’ve completely U-turned it.
‘Hopefully now the next generation, people watching, we want them to step through and have as much depth as America.’
Gold for Team GB in BMX freestyle
Charlotte Worthington secured Team GB’s ninth gold of Tokyo 2020 with her victory in the BMX freestyle.
The 25-year-old became the first woman to pull off a 360 backflip in the competition to record a score of 97.50 out of a possible 99.99.
Team USA’s Hannah Roberts, who was tipped as the favourite to win gold, picked up the silver medal with a score of 96.10.
When asked about her backflip, Worthington said: ‘It was incredible.
‘I’ve not been doing that trick for so long but we’ve been trying to find that big banger trick and when we did we thought, ‘this is the one’. If it wasn’t for Hannah Roberts, we wouldn’t be doing these tricks.
‘It’s a lot of hard work paid off.’
Bronze for Team GB in BMX freestyle
Declan Brooks added to Team GB’s medal tally by securing bronze in the first-ever men’s BMX freestyle event.
‘I’ve just cried for the last couple of minutes,’ he said.
‘It’s an unbelievable journey I’ve had on the way here.
‘I am just so stoked. I don’t think it will sink in for a while. For Charlotte [Worthington] to do her things today and put a score and tricks up there that we had never seen before it was even harder focusing.
‘I knew the run I wanted to pull, I still missed a few bits out but to be honest I think that is all I had. But honestly third place for me is a mental!’
More medals to come in boxing
Ben Whittaker is in with a chance of winning gold in the light-heavyweight boxing final after beating Imam Khataev of the Russian Olympic Committee.
Pat McCormack is also guaranteed at least a silver medal as he reached the welterweight final after Ireland’s Aidan Walsh pulled out with an injury.
Frazer Clarke has moved into the semi-finals of the super-heavyweight competition after he beat Aliev Mourad, who was disqualified for headbutting.
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