Elsewhere the women’s -57kg judo will include Commonwealth champion Nekoda Smythe-Davis, Ed Ling goes in the men’s trap shooting and Great Britain’s women will be hoping to contest the first Olympic rugby sevens final at 11pm at Deodoro Stadium.
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Bronze medallists Daniel Goodfellow and Tom Daley of Great Britain celebrate their win but only Daley was featured on the front pages of some papers.
Daley commented, “It was an agonising wait that felt like it was an eternity”.
“It helps me work out where they stand and it was a very tense moment but at the end we knew it was coming”.
December 2013 saw him announce his relationship with his now-fiancé, the Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and by the New Year he had moved from Plymouth into an apartment overlooking London’s Olympic Park. “So proud love Nan x”, she wrote.
While he did not take home a medal, he did place seventh, already remarkable for such a young age and paving the way for an illustrious career in diving highlighted by three 1 place rankings in the European Championships and a FINA World Championships title. “So happy for them!” I’d been out for so long I think it motivated me to take the opportunity more.
Despite their medal being very much a team effort, a number of national newspapers concentrated on Tom Daley, running pictures of Team GB’s poster boy on his own. On day three of the games she qualified fastest for the 200m individual medley final with a new British record.
He has a chance to win another medal later next week in an upcoming individual event.
The men’s artistic gymnasts finished fourth in the team event having been among the medals with two of the six rotations remaining.
Third at the halfway stage, a poor fourth dive – where junior partner Goodfellow made a bigger splash than a space shuttle returning to planet earth – threatened to bounce the Brits out of the medals.
On Sunday Lizzie Armitstead could only manage fifth in the women’s road race and fencer Richard Kruse lost an incredibly close bronze medal match in the foil.
Daley was appearing in his third Olympics.
Australia’s Mack Horton won Saturday’s 400 metres freestyle ahead of Sun and afterwards was scathing in his criticism of the man he beat into silver, prompting threats on social media from China.
Away from the sporting events, Rio police investigating illegal ticket sales said they had arrested two men.
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This was Dan Goodfellow’s first Olympic Games, and while this might be their first time at the Olympics together, they have a strong history as a partnership.
