There has been more glory for Great Britain in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with gold in the men's 200m freestyle relay.
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Debutants Sholto Carnegie, Oliver Cook, Matthew Rossiter and Rory Gibbs tried to push eventual winners Australia all the way, but the Brits were chased down by Romania and Italy, with the Team GB boat almost crashing into Italy in the closing stages after swerving out of ther laine.Great Britain did get its first rowing medal at the Games, finishing second in the men's quadruple sculls.
But they held off Australia and Poland to take silver, behind the Netherlands - who won four rowing medals on day five of the Tokyo Olympics. "We decided that, as we were in lane one with an outside chance of a medal, we were going to take it to them and we really did it."Harry Leask, 25, from Edinburgh, added:"I knew basically the whole way where we were, I had a pretty good view from where I was sitting of the whole race.
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