The United States Field Hockey team came within minutes of a ideal run through pool play at the Rio Olympics, but two late goals gave Great Britain a comeback win and the top seed out of Pool B on Saturday.
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By contrast, it was quite the end to Paul Bennett, Scott Durant and Matt Gotrel’s debut Games, while Will Satch added to his men’s pair bronze from four years ago.
The silver was Ireland’s first medal in rowing at an Olympic Games as well as the first medal for Ireland at the 2016 Olympic Games while Norway took bronze, its second rowing medal at the 2016 Games here on Friday, reports Xinhua.
Great Britain’s win in the men’s eight on Saturday followed golds in the men’s four and women’s pair and silvers for the women’s eight and women’s double sculls.
Mr Cosgrove said: “Her medal is much deserved following years of hard-work to return to this level of racing”.
For Andrew Triggs-Hodge and Pete Reed, it is their third Olympic gold and for GB it is the fifth medal of the regatta, with a tally of three golds.
“I am so happy, but a little bit exhausted now”, said France’s Houin to WorldRowing.
There were only two survivors, Meghan Musnicki and Eleanor Logan from the US team that won in London four years ago.
Team USA rowing is well beyond dynasty at this point. There is such great history there and it’s cool to be a part of that history now, ” Kerry Simmonds said of the 1936 crew that was composed entirely of UW rowers. “These guys are absolute gladiators today”. Team GB looked set to miss out the podium having been last at the halfway stage, but a late surge saw them pip the teams from Romania and early leaders Canada, to finish behind the Americans.
Triple jumper James Connolly won the United States’ first Gold medal at the 1896 Summer Games and it is expected that on Sunday or Monday a still unknown American will claim a milestone 1,000th gold to bookend 120 years of Olympic domination. I think he knew that I had done enough. “It was just us out there”.
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“He really helped me get through the hard times in rowing and we were really under pressure and there were lots of trials going on at the time”. British crews have now won the men’s four at five consecutive Olympic Games. “We just want to make them proud and ourselves proud and our coaches”.
