SportGreat haul in China a 100-year high
THE BRITISH team's addition of nine medals to its score yesterday represented its best day in the Olympics for 100 years. First to strike gold for Team GB was Rebecca Adlington, who added the 800m freestyle gold to her 400m one after a record-breaking swim. She led from the early stages and eventually finished in a time of 8 min 14.10 seconds, obliterating a 19-year-old world record. British focus then moved to the Shunyi Olympic Rowing Park, where the women’s double sculls of Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington won bronze before their male counterparts, Matthew Wells and Stephen Rowbotham, did the same.
Finally Chris Hoy claimed gold in the keirin cycling, with team-mate Ross Edgar just behind before Bradley Wiggins won the individual pursuit, with Steven Burke in third and Chris Newton taking bronze in the points race. |
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By Sunday Post staff
The men’s four did better when they produced an awesome final 250 m to overhaul
the Australia boat and win gold — the third successive British win in the
Olympic event.
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