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Tokyo Olympics: The silver lining to Peter Burling and Blair Tuke s silver medal

Six world championships in the 49er skiff and a gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics have made them the crew to beat. Add in a double America’s Cup triumphs with Team New Zealand where Burling has risen to be skipper, and they enjoy a profile that few Kiwi athletes can match. With that comes expectations and the pair carry huge hopes every time they put a foot on a boat. Those expectations undoubtedly carry through to their team mates with Burling and Tuke at the forefront of Yachting New Zealand’s high-performance program. They didn’t deliver gold, but they did deliver the team’s first medal at an Enoshima regatta that will see the New Zealand sailing team fall short of their target of three medals.

Tokyo Olympics: Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have to settle for silver medal

There is one last chance for a sailing medal on Wednesday as the men s 470 crew of Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox had a good final day of fleet racing with a sixth and a third. That lifted them to fourth on the table for the medal race featuring the top 10 crews, and they are only six points off a bronze medal Burling and Tuke went into the medal race with a four point lead on the table. They ended on the same points as Great Britain after the medal race which had double points on offer, but the British won the tie-breaker by virtue of finishing ahead of the Kiwis in the race that mattered most.

Tokyo Olympics: Four medals in one day (again), how New Zealand s 140-minute plunder ranks

Tokyo Olympics: Four medals in one day (again), how New Zealand s 140-minute plunder ranks
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