Olympics 2024: Team GB Silver in Team Sprint, Sky Brown Bronze
Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull were forced to settle for Olympic men’s team sprint silver for Great Britain as skateboarding star Skye Brown took bronze despite dislocating her shoulder ahead of the Games.
British men win team sprint Silver As pre-race favourites, Holland broke world records twice en route to Silver.
Repeating the result from the Tokyo Games, the Dutch trio of Harry Laurissen, Geoffrey Hoagland and Roy van den Berg retained their title, breaking their own world record in the first round and then in the final, winning in a time of 40.949 seconds. About a second on GB.
Carlin, 27, was part of the squad that won silver three years ago alongside Sir Jason Kenny – now coach – and the retired Ryan Owens, but this is the biggest result of Turnbull’s 25-year-old and Lowe’s career so far. was 20
British skateboarding star Sky Brown secured a bronze medal, despite dislocating her shoulder before the Games
Brown made an impressive comeback with her bronze medal in Tokyo with a score of 92.31 in the third of her three runs, having dislocated her shoulder in the women’s skateboard park competition in La Concorde last month.
The 16-year-old was also close to tears after appearing to aggravate the injury during the qualifying competition, in which she finished fourth with a score of 84.75 but fell heavily during the last of her three runs.
A tearful Brown had vowed to “fight through” the pain, and her big final run proved enough to return to the Olympic podium.
A big run by Australia’s Arisa Trio put the Australians in first place until Brown was in front of the last skater, Kokona Hiraki, who had also won her a silver medal in Tokyo when she was 12.
Nevertheless, it completed a remarkable comeback for Brown, who suffered a serious knee injury last year, and also suffered a fractured skull in a crash just a year before the Tokyo Games.
Brown said: “It’s been a crazy journey since Tokyo but to see the levels change in Paris and to know that we all have to push the limits together has been really great. Arisa is amazing and has been since Tokyo. The surface has changed considerably.
“I’m a double Olympic medalist. It’s really great and I’m very happy.”
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix missed out on a second Olympic medal at Paris 2024 after finishing sixth in the women’s 10m platform final.
The 19-year-old qualified for the final after finishing third in Monday’s semi-final and a strong opening dive saw him hover outside the podium position in fourth.
However, a poor second round saw her slip down the table after scoring 62.40 and she was seventh after the fourth round.
He finished strong on his final dive with an 81.60, but had to settle for sixth place.
Despite a disappointing performance in the individual competition, Spendolini-Sirieix has already won a medal at these Games in the 10m synchronized event with partner Luis Tolson last week.
China’s Quan Hongchen took gold in Tuesday’s individual competition after setting the standard in the first round, scoring a perfect dive to finish with 90 points and take the top spot with an impressive score of 425.60.
Her teammate Chen Yusi won the silver medal, while North Korea’s Kim Mi-ra took the bronze.
What happened on the track this morning?
Tokyo silver medalist Laura Mayer comfortably qualified for the semi-finals of the women’s 1500m after finishing second in her heat at the Stade de France.
The Scot needed to finish in the top six to book his place and he did so in 3:58.91, seven hundredths of a second behind heat winner Gadaf Tsige of Ethiopia.
Moir, competing in his third Olympics, said: “Ultimately it was all about qualifying for the semi-finals without any hiccups. I did that and it felt really smooth.
“I’m not thinking about the final right now, it’s all about the semi-final, it’s very simple.
“I’ve been here many times before and always made it to the final but I never took it for granted. All the focus is on getting to this final.”
Up and running on day 11.
