To say I am smug is rubbish : Double gold medallist James Cracknell brushes off Team GB rowers apparent claim he delighted in their disastrous end to Olympics
Team GB s gold-medal favourites could only finish fourth at the Tokyo Olympics after losing control of boat
The final ends their dominance of coxless four event - having won gold in this event since the Sydney Games
Tearful Oliver Cook took responsibility and said: I forgot the steering and that s what cost us a medal
Afterwards James Cracknell declared: The only way your steering goesis when somebody runs out of juice
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2019, file photo, Candy Jacobs, of the Netherlands, competes in the Skate Street World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Quarantined Olympic skateboarder Jacobs says she’s had to take action to be allowed to get fresh air in an isolation hotel in Japan. The Dutch athlete was removed from the Olympic Village after testing positive for COVID-19.
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MEDAL ALERT
Britain has won the menâs 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the Olympics for the first time since 1908, but just missed a world record.
With a powerhouse group that included the 1-2 finishers in the 200 freestyle, Britain blew away the field in 6 minutes, 58.58 seconds. That was just off the world record set by the Americans (6:58.55) at the 2009 world championships.
The 200-meter gold medalist, Tom Dean, led off for the British. James Guy and Matthew Richards took the middle legs before 200-meter silver medalist Duncan Scott swam the anchor leg. It was the first British gold in the event since it made its debut at the first London Games.
MEDAL ALERT
Chizuru Arai has won Japan’s sixth gold medal in judo at the Tokyo Olympics, beating Austria’s Michaela Polleres in the final of the women’s 70-kilogram middleweight division.
Arai reached her first Olympic final with three ippon victories, surviving a semifinal bout that lasted nearly 17 minutes against Russian athlete Madina Taimazova. The two-time world champion then claimed gold over Polleres with an early waza ari at the Budokan.
Arai is just the second Japanese woman to win gold out of five weight categories in Tokyo. The men swept the first four gold medals in Tokyo, but they won’t win a fifth after Shoichiro Mukai fell short before the medal rounds.
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