8 years ago
Team GB’s second place in Olympic table underlines value not price of gold medal
It started on a Sunday, two weeks and half a lifetime ago. Adam Peaty in the pool. Two dry days, then came Joe Clarke in his canoe, Jack Laugher and Chris Mears together in the springboard diving. Flowing on, the men’s team sprint. And then the flood. Three one day, the women’s coxless pair, the men’s coxless four, and the men’s team pursuit. Three more the next, the men’s eight and the women’s team pursuit and Mo Farah’s first. A full five on the middle Sunday, success coming in such a giddy rush now it was a struggle to keep up.
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