it has been some journey. on your marks. on a wild, wet day for the triathlon she began well with a solid swim. but come the cycling, calamity. i think she has a flat back tyre. a puncture meant she had to nurse her bike home. taylor brown now trailing the leaders. but once by one she picks them off in a superb run. she couldn t quite catch flora duffy, who clinched a first ever olympic gold for bermuda. but taylor brown followed her home for silver and after overcoming a puncture and, she revealed, a serious leg injury in may it was some feat. i had two weeks on crutches. no load through the bone at all. then i had another four weeks of no running and then i managed to basically cram my training in for the past six weeks. you just want to make everyone proud and give everyone a reason to be happy and lift everyone up.
after coming so close to the final in the above 67 kilogram category. great britain s first medal of the day came in the women s triathlon, where georgia taylor brown took silver. she was beaten into gold by more than a minute by bermuda s flora duffy. who made history here winning the island nation s first gold at an olympics and first medal of any kind since a bronze in boxing at the montreal games in 1976. for taylor brown second was a great achievement too, she revealed afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago, and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre. still, powering through to finish second. there s been a shock in the tennis on day four the home favourite and face of the games naomi osaka has been knocked out in the fourth round by the world number a2 and former french open finalist marketa vondrousova. osaka made history by becoming the first tennis player to light the olympic cauldron at an opening ceremony, she d won 25 of her previous 26 matc
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dean, who s in lane six, touched home in one minute, 114.22 seconds, securing a british record at his debut games. scott finished just four hundredths of a second behind. great britain s first medal of the day came in the women s triathlon, where georgia taylor brown took silver. she was beaten by bermuda s flora duffy, who made history by winning the island nation s first gold at an 0lympics. for taylor brown, second was a great achievement, too she revealed afterwards she was on crutches just 12 weeks ago and spent part of the bike stage of the race with a flat tyre, but powered on regardless to finish second. that s all the sport for now. day four has been packed full of action. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that s bbc.co.uk/sport. we look forward to it, thank you very much, hugh.
withjess learmonth leading and georgia not far behind. she had stuck with the leaders on the 40k bike ride, but the elements weren t all she was battling. i think georgia taylor brown has got a flat tyre. it s everyone s worst nightmare, really. i did panic at first, but then i thought, well, there s nothing i can do, i can t really control this right now, i can only do my best. there was nothing she could do about flora duffy s commanding 10k, but it soon dawned on her she was going to come second. there was a lot of emotion coming down that finishing chute, and i cried, and ifinished on the floor, and it took a lot out of me mentally and physically. now it s, i guess, on to paris. so an early start, then, here in 0daiba bay, but elsewhere was still a packed day of sport forteam gb, including plenty of medal chances. in the dressage team final, britain s double olympic gold medallist charlotte dujardin was last to go on newcomer gio, affectionately known as pumpkin. but his perfor