Keri-Anne Payne won silver and Cassie Patten won bronze in the 10km open water marathon, the first time the event has featured in the Olympics. Swimming outdoors in a lake, feeding stations, swimmers bunching and opening up as they do in distance races, it's an odd event to watch and they completed it in just under two hours of non-stop swimming.The ending was very tense with Keri-Anne and Cassie leading most of the way and then the Russian world record holder just slipping past in the last couple of hundred yards and Keri-Anne putting on a spurt to try to keep the lead but just being pipped at the last minute. In the interview afterwards they sounded like a right couple of fun characters too!
Bryony Shaw won bronze in windsurfing and was over-whelmed in the post race interview after being pulled out of the water - she was very emotional and seemed over the moon! I like that - all too often bronze is seen as a runners up medal but it really is a tremendous achievement to win one in the Olympics.
Tasha Danvers also won a bronze in the 400m hurdles, always a stirring race, and she looked so proud afterwards. She was closing down on second place - a few more yards and she would've had silver. We haven't won many track and field medals yet so it's great that Tasha added to the haul.Well done lasses!
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