UK Sport has invested around £274million into Olympic sports over the past four years and its chair Rod Carr said: ” Our National Lottery and Government-backed athletes have worked so hard for many years to compete here in Rio, and to collectively achieve a historic best ever away Games medal haul with five days still to go is a fitting accolade for this special team.
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And Tonia Couch’s second attempt to win Team GB’s first female diving medal at an Olympic Games started nicely as she finished fifth in the 10m platform preliminary. The Jamaican sprinter already owns both the world record at 19.19 seconds, and Olympic record at 19.30.
China took four gymnastics gold medals in London in 2012, when its women won gold and silver on the balance beam.
The Japanese women took team bronze over Singapore.
On Wednesday, Germany triumphed in the bronze medal match over Republic of Korea 3-1, with a neck injury not stopping Boll from winning the doubles match with Steger and then winning his singles encounter 3-0 against Joo Saehyuk to seal the medal for Germany.
In the doubles match, China lost a rare game, but they still won 3-1 and snatched up their third gold medal in table tennis in Rio.
And while sailing duo Mat Belcher and Will Ryan in the men’s 470 are expected to add another medal, it would require Australia to bag a further two medals to ensure Rio isn’t the worst performance by an Australian Olympic team since Seoul in 1988. Although D’Agostino ranked No. 30 in women’s 5,000-meter heats, she still qualified for Friday’s final.
It’s a win-or-go home game as the US men’s basketball team faces Argentina in the quarterfinals.
Xinhua had earlier posted a photograph of the medals table showing China behind Great Britain.
A dark and moody ad for sportswear brand Under Armour has been the most shared ad of the Rio Games despite it being nearly six months old, while it never even mentions the Olympics. On Tuesday evening the 28-year-old and her England team-mates watched on television as Sweden knocked out hosts Brazil on penalties.
Bartoletta and Brittney Reese went 1-2 in the Olympic long jump, Tori Bowie captured a bronze in the 200 meters and Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin swept the medals in the Olympic 100-meter hurdles – a feat that’s never been accomplished in that event.
“If you speak to the rest of the squad they’re very disappointed not to be in the Olympics because I think we could have gone there and done really, really well”.
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Phelps celebrates winning the gold medal in the men’s 200m butterfly.
