British team They enjoyed the best start to the Olympic Games in modern history.
The Tokyo gold rush continued on Tuesday, with Tom Dean (Tom Dean) winning a sensational gold medal and Duncan Scott (Duncan Scott) winning the silver medal to ensure that the British won one or two in the men’s 200m freestyle.
This is the first time that two British male swimmers have been on the Olympic podium together since 1908. Later that day, a British woman won the first women’s team gymnastics medal since 1928, which will become history. .
The brilliant performances of Alice Kinsella, Amelie Morgan and twin sisters Jennifer and Jessica Gadirova won the bronze medal.
Overall, the GB team won six medals on the fourth day, and they hope to achieve greater success on the fifth day.
After winning the bronze medal in the team dressage on Tuesday, Charlotte Dujardin and Catherine Granger became the British women’s Olympian with the most gold medals. She will strive to be the only woman in the individual finals on Wednesday to win the three. The British woman who won the gold medal at the Olympic Games.
With the return of road cycling, Geraint Thomas is expected to win a medal in the men’s time trial, but much depends on how he recovers from the crash that he and Tao Geoghegan Hart fell in Saturday’s road race.
When the 3×3 basketball game ends in Tokyo, another busy day, there should also be a lot of entertainment.
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Can rugby boys do better?
After winning the silver medal in Rio, the British men’s seven-a-side rugby team has a chance to win the gold medal in Tokyo.
First, they must defeat the most successful country in the history of the sport, the New Zealand All Blacks. It starts at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Then, if they can overcome this, they will face the winner of Argentina — an extraordinary victory just over South Africa — and the defending champion Fiji, who played at 3:30 in the morning.
The bronze medal match was held at 9:30 a.m., and the exhibition match was held at 10 a.m.
No one said it would be easy. But if they can succeed, it will definitely be epic.
Team GB competes for the gold medal
In the past three competitions, the British team topped the medal table in the rowing competition.
On the fifth day in Tokyo, there are four gold medals battle, there is a chance to continue to maintain this dominance.
The first is the men’s double scull match between Graeme Thomas and John Collins at 1:30 in the morning.
Then at 1:50, Rowan McKellar, Harriet Taylor, Karen Bennett and Rebecca Shorten were launched without coxswain.
Later Oliver Cook, Matthew Rossit, Rory Gibbs and Scolto Carnegie formed the men’s rudderless foursome rally at 2:10 in the morning.
Finally, in the men’s quadruple sculls at 2:30, Harry Leask, Angus Groom, Tom Barras and Jack Beaumont brought the United Kingdom to a successful conclusion.
