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Matthew Pinsent interviews Team GB stars on his KNEES in bizarre moment at Paris Olympics

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August 5, 2024

Matthew Pinsent interviews Team GB stars on his KNEES in bizarre moment at Paris Olympics

BBC commentator Matthew Pinsent interviewed Staff GB’s ladies’s eight rowers on his KNEES following their bronze medal win on the Olympics.

Pinsent was overlaying the lads’s and girls’s eight finals on Saturday morning.

Matthew Pinsent was compelled to improvise throughout an interview with Staff GB’s ladies’s eight crew

He completed an interview from his knees to get all eight players in frame — He accomplished an interview from his knees to get all eight gamers in body

Staff GB claimed bronze within the ladies’s occasion, ending behind Romania and Canada.

They appeared thrilled when talking to four-time Olympic gold medal winner Pinsent and Dame Katherine Grainger after the race.

However with a view to get all eight athletes within the digicam body, Pinsent accomplished the interview on his knees.

He mentioned: “We’re actually going to wrestle to get you all in. I will get on my knees in entrance of you.”

Grainger then quipped: “Matthew does not get on his knees for many individuals!”

Whereas returning to his ft after the chat, Pinsent then joked: “My knees aren’t what they was once!”

Talking after the race, Emily Ford mentioned: “The entire method we simply trusted each other and trusted the method.

“Now we have actually discovered to have perception in ourselves and that is precisely what we did.

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“I believe this medal is greater than for simply us lot standing right here – it is for folks previous and current, our household, and all of our assist community.

“Anybody that has acquired ambition: go on the market, consider in yourselves and you are able to do it.”

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Holly Dunford added: “That was unbelievable. I believe we left the whole lot on the market and I believe we might be actually happy with what we’ve simply executed. Wow.”

And Eve Stewart defined: “I believe it was nice execution. I am simply so thrilled to be standing right here and I do not actually have many different phrases than that, to be trustworthy.”

Staff GB gained gold within the males’s eight remaining, beating Netherlands and USA.

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TODAY’S BRIT MEDAL HOPES

Max Whitlock goes for an unprecedented fourth consecutive medal on the pommel horse (4.10pm)
Our dressage crew can declare one other gold on the equestrian (9am) after gold, silver and bronze on the final three Video games.
Staff GB will need to retain the 4x100m combined chill out relay (8.33pm) within the pool and Jake Jarman goes within the males’s flooring gymnastics remaining (2.30pm).

BRITS TO WATCH

Tom Pidcock will get again within the saddle after his epic mountain biking gold with the lads’s highway race (10am).
It’s the final day of rowing with GB in with an opportunity of extra medals – particularly within the males’s and girls’s eights (10.10am).
GB tackle Argentina of their remaining ladies’s pool sport within the hockey (9am).
And Tommy Fleetwood continues his cost in direction of {golfing} gold, co-leading at -11 after a seven-under yesterday (10.44am).

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US sprinter Sha-Carri Richardson and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson will battle it out for girls’s 100m dash gold – with Dina Asher-Smith hoping to maintain tempo (8.20pm).
We additionally get a primary look within the heats at 100m males’s stars People Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman who will battle with Zharnel Hughes for glory (10.45am).

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Badminton typically slips beneath the radar on the Olympics however is at all times unbelievable viewing with lightning-quick reactions.
The ladies’s doubles remaining options 4 of the perfect gamers on the earth as Indonesia face China (3.10pm).

STATS MAD

6 – As of Saturday morning, solely six athletes have gained the identical particular person occasion on the Olympics 4 instances. Katie Ledecky might be a part of that prestigious listing – which options Carl Lewis and Michael Phelps – within the 800m freestyle (8.09pm). Vincent Hancock might additionally do it within the skeet capturing right now (2.30pm).

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