Great Britain’s Helen Glover and the women’s four had to settle for silver in a thrilling final at the Paris Olympics.
The British boat of mother-of-three Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten was neck and neck with the Netherlands for the final 500m of the 2,000m race.
For a moment, it looked like Glover’s dream of a third Olympic gold medal would come true, but the Dutch edged them out on the line to win by 0.18 seconds.
Britain picked up bronze medals in the women’s doubles sculls and the men’s four to bring their total to four rowing medals in Paris, already one more than they managed at Tokyo 2020.
Daire Lynch and Northern Ireland’s Philip Doyle won bronze for Ireland in the men’s double sculls.
