Tokyo Olympics 2021 - LIVE!
Heroes and heartbreaks. This is what the Olympic Games delivers in heaped doses, and Day 7 in Tokyo gave plenty of each.
First, the heroes. If future Brits are challenging for medals on a BMX bike, they’ll be able to look at Bethany Shriever and Kye Whyte as pioneers.
Whyte claimed the nation’s first Olympic medal in the event with silver in the men’s shortly before Shriever gold in the women’s BMX racing final.
In the pool, Duncan Scott won his third of a possible four medals with silver in the 200m medley final, while Luke Greenbank took bronze in the men’s 200m backstroke final.
In an otherwise disappointing day for rowing, the men’s eight won a rowing bronze and Bryony Page added another in the women’s trampolining on day seven.
The women’s sevens team cruised into the final four.
Now for the heartache. GB finished the Games with two rowing medals, their lowest rowing medal tally at an Olympics since they won two at Atlanta 1996 and the first time they have not won at least one gold since 1980. No doubt a stern inquiry will follow.
And there was disappointment for the women footballers as they ended on the wrong end of a seven goal thriller against Australia.
Elsewhere, Alexander Zverev beat Novak Djokovic to progress to the men’t tennis final while Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega made a late surge in the men’s 10,000m final to run past his Ugandan challengers and storm to a thrilling victory.
The high hopes for Britain’s 800m runner Keely Hodgkinson, who is the European indoor 800m champion, were founded as they made the semi-finals with ease.
