Over a few deafening minutes along the Seine, Team GB expected gold, were awarded silver, and were then downgraded to bronze after a wrongly adjudged photo-finish. We always knew a mixed triathlon embracing Paris’s greatest sights would look spectacular. But this was a race that also took the breath away.
Three teams were still slugging it out for gold as they saw the finish line on the Pont Alexandre III. But ultimately 1hr 25min 39sec of racing came down to one second, which was the gap between Laura Lindemann of Germany, who sealed gold for her team, before Taylor Knibb of the USA and Team GB’s Beth Potter finished second and third, respectively.
