The British rower Lola Anderson choked back tears as she told of her pride in fulfilling her late father’s faith in her talent on a wonderful Wednesday in Paris when Team GB chalked up five more Olympic medals – including two gold.
Great Britain was propelled into fifth position in the medal table, behind China, Japan, France and Australia, but ahead of South Korea and the USA, by the gold medal-winning feats of Anderson, Hannah Scott, Lauren Henry and Georgie Brayshaw in the women’s quadruple sculls crew and Alex Yee in the men’s triathlon.
