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Helen Glover’s bid to win a third Olympics gold medal and add another sensational chapter to her trail-blazing rowing career ended in heartbreak as Great Britain lost out to the Netherlands in a thrilling finish in the women’s coxless four. There were bronze medals for Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde in the women’s double sculls, as well as the Great Britain men’s coxless four.
