Olympics 2024: Team GB retain swimming relay gold as Nathan Hales breaks records and Simone Biles cements legacy | Olympics News

Group GB gained two medals on day 4, with the boys’s 4x200m freestyle relay crew retaining their gold medal and Nathan Hales claiming gold within the males’s lure capturing together with an Olympic file.

James Man, Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott retained their title to present Group GB their first Olympic gold within the pool of the Paris Video games.

Richards had come inside two-hundredths of a second of profitable the person occasion, settling as an alternative for silver, as did Adam Peaty, who misplaced by an similar margin within the males’s 100m breaststroke.

However there was no want for a photograph end on Tuesday night as whereas Group GB led by simply half a second after the ultimate change, Scott pulled away on the anchor leg to seal an finally snug win.

A time of six minutes and 59.43 seconds was 1.35 secs forward of runners-up america, whereas bronze medallists Australia had been an additional 1.2 seconds again.

Scott’s leg of 1min 43.95 secs was the race’s quickest and would have gained him gold within the particular person occasion on Monday, when he completed a disappointing fourth, simply 0.08s off bronze and 0.15s off high spot.

“I feel we’re the primary male or feminine crew to defend a relay title, and there have been so many nice particular person athletes in that run,” stated Scott.

“After we come collectively as a crew, it’s actually particular. Me and Jimmy [James Guy] had been a part of the crew in 2016, and to get three Olympic medals in a row is wonderful.

“I’m simply so pleased with what we had been all capable of do on the market. It was so loud, the environment was phenomenal – the French crew had been in there so it was wonderful.

“I’m simply pleased with how all of us swam our legs. Jimmy did a lifetime greatest this morning, his greatest since 2015, after which Tom and Matt additionally introduced it again so robust. I’m buzzing with that.”

Hales picks up gold and units Olympic file in lure capturing

Olympic debutant Nathan Hales got here away with the gold medal in lure capturing on Tuesday for Group GB, setting the Olympic file after hitting 48/50 targets.

The Chatham 28-year-old claimed a brand new Olympic file of 48 out of fifty to beat Chinese language silver medallist Ying Qi by 4 pictures.

Hales, who’s married to former GB Olympian Charlotte Kerwood, had earlier booked his place within the six-strong closing in second place.

Making his Olympic debut, Hales continued to indicate few indicators of nerves, lacking simply one among 25 pictures within the first section of the ultimate to rank high, one in entrance of his Chinese language rival.

Heading into the ultimate section wherein the lowest-scoring shooter was eradicated after each 5 pictures, Hales nudged in entrance by one after 35, the cut-off level at which he was assured an Olympic medal.

“The ultimate was nice and I am so completely happy to get an Olympic file in addition to profitable the Olympics,” Hales stated.

“I simply try to hold every little thing as we all the time do and deal with it precisely the identical method I deal with finals in coaching. I simply push by way of and hold targeted on what I am doing, not on what different athletes are doing.”

Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas of Guatemala was subsequent to fall, however such was Hales’ benefit by this level that the 10-shot shoot-off for gold noticed him edge additional clear to win by 4.

The medal is Group GB’s third gold up to now on the Paris Video games and Hales additionally holds the world file in males’s lure (49/50).

Biles triumphant with Group USA as Group GB agonisingly near medal

“The Redemption Tour” resulted in a well-recognized spot for Simone Biles: atop the Olympic podium.

The American gymnastics star and her singular brilliance powered a dominant USA ladies’s crew within the finals as they secured a gold medal.

With Biles at her show-stopping greatest, the People’ whole of 171.296 was properly away from Italy and Brazil and the exclamation level of a yearlong run wherein Biles has cemented her legacy as the best ever in her sport, and among the many greatest within the historical past of the Olympics.

It was agonisingly shut for Group GB as they got here in fourth place, a stellar effort after qualifying in seventh.

Becky Downie pulled out a sensational efficiency on the uneven bars however Brazil, led by Rebeca Andrade, had an excessive amount of high quality on the day.

“I knew that each level one counts in a crew closing,” stated Downie.

“We stated at the beginning we’d go all out and we left every little thing on the market on the ground.

“I am so pleased with them, we could not have executed anymore. We did every little thing we probably may. We went for broke.

“To be that shut in such an enormous comp is admittedly onerous however hopefully these guys might be again and have extra finals to come back.”

Who else featured for Group GB on Tuesday?

Andy Murray and Dan Evans gained one other epic males’s doubles match as they saved two match factors on their approach to a 6-3 6-7 (8-10), 11-9 win over Belgium’s Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen.

Heather Watson and Katie Boulter had been additionally in sensible kind as they beat Germans Laura Siegemund and Angelique Kerber 6-2, 6-3 within the first spherical of the ladies’s doubles.

Watson was then straight into blended doubles motion alongside Joe Salisbury however they misplaced 7-5, 4-6, 10-3 to Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada.

The final remaining Brit within the singles, Jack Draper, misplaced his second-round match 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 2-6 to seventh seed Taylor Fritz.

Emma Wilson continued her robust efficiency within the ladies’s windsurfing, profitable three of the fives races on Tuesday and ending second in one other.

She is now 17 factors clear on the high of the standings after seven races forward of Friday’s medal race.

Joe Clarke’s glorious second run of 85.62 in he canoe slalom noticed him qualify for the semi-finals in fourth, whereas Tokyo silver medallist Mallory Franklin certified sixth for the ladies’s C1 semi-finals, with each semi-finals happening tomorrow.

Within the rowing, Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Rebecca Wilde completed second of their warmth to qualify for the ladies’s doubles sculls closing.

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