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Who are Team GB s athletes to watch
Team GB is represented by its largest ever delegation for an Olympic Games on foreign soil, with 376 athletes and a further 22 reserve athletes competing across 26 sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games. It is second only to the 541 athletes selected for the London Olympics in 2012.
For the first time in its 125-year history, Team GB has also taken more women than men to a summer Olympic Games.
Of the 376 athletes selected, Team GB took 201 female (53.5%) and 175 male athletes (46.5%) to Tokyo thanks to impressive qualification performances from British female athletes across sports and an increased number of female events at the Games.
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