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Katie Stafford
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Great Britain's women's team missed out on a successive Olympic bronze medal by 0.234 of a point.

The quartet of Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Becky Downie and Ruby Evans scored 164.263 points but it was just short of Brazil's tally.

Team USA, featuring the now five-time Olympic champion Simone Biles, won gold while Italy claimed silver.

Downie registered the highest uneven bars score of the final with an impressive 14.933, while Ruby Evans pulled off a strong 13.966 vault at her Games debut.

"We said ‘we would go all out’ and we left everything out there," Downie told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport. "It is a shame it didn’t go our way today."

GB won women's team bronze at Tokyo 2020 for the first time since 1928. Of the team that featured in Japan, only Alice Kinsella remains because twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova were injured.

The disappointment for the women follows GB's men's fourth-place finish in the team final on Monday.

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Team GB's Kirsty Gilmour exited the Paris Olympics as she lost her second badminton group match to China's He Bingjiao.

Gilmour, 30, was representing Team GB in her third Olympic Games and has never reached the knockout stage.

The Scot pushed Bingjiao close in the opening game, losing 24-22, but was swept aside 21-8 in the second by the world number eight.

Bingjiao has topped the round-robin group stage, which means she progresses.

Tom Brown
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A silver medal in your first individual Olympic final is an impressive feat.

But Matt Richards has high standards.

After winning the world title in this event - the 200m freestyle - only last year, he wanted the Olympic title tonight.

But after qualifying seventh fastest, he was out in lane one. He told me afterwards he will learn from the experience for his remaining events this week.

“That was probably a tactical error on my part last night," he admitted. "I probably could’ve done with being in the middle of the pool and a little bit closer to what was going on.

"But it’s great learning. I’m young. I’m 21 years old. I plan on being in the sport at least another 10 years yet. I’d like to get to five Olympic Games if I’m able to.

"I will learn from that last night. I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen again this week or every major meet after this.

"So if that means that tonight I was meant to get the silver rather than the gold because of it. Everything happens for a reason."