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CAPTAIN DINA CALLS FOR NEW CHAPTER

IN a move with little shock value, Dina Asher-Smith was confirmed yesterday as the captain of the Team GB athletics delegation. The 200 metres world champion (right) said: ‘I’ve been fortunate enough to be on senior teams at championships for eight years now — my first championships was 2013 and I was brought in the year Christine Ohuruogu made her fantastic speech as team captain which set the bar so high. I’ve told the team to be proud of themselves, deep down proud of themselves, and also to know that the future is not written.’ ÷TODAY’S rowing programme has been cancelled due to fears over high winds, with forecast gusts ‘creating unequal and potentially unrowable racing conditions’.

Yesterday’s events had already been squeezed into the weekend schedule, and now the quad sculls medal rounds, set for today, have been moved to Wednesday, with other events moved to then and Thursday and the rest of the programme moved back a day. ÷EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ahmed Hafnaoui (right) announced

himself on the Olympic stage in stunning style yesterday by winning swimming’s 400m freestyle from lane eight having qualified slowest. A rapid finish saw him beat Australia’s Jack McLoughlin to gold with a time of 3min 43.36sec and win Tunisia’s fifth ever gold medal. ÷THERE have been titters of amusement within the Olympic circus about the naming of the plane that carried the Canadian equestrian team’s horses to Tokyo — Air Horse One. Featuring only six seats behind the pilots, the jumbo jet transported 37 horses on the 18-hour flight to Japan. ÷ GRACE REID and Katherine Torrance could only finish sixth in the women’s synchronised three-metre springboard. The Team GB duo were in medal contention after the third of five dives. But a disappointing two-and-a-half somersault pike in the fourth round effectively ended their hopes as China’s Shi

Tingmao and Wang Han dominated the first diving event. ÷ARCHERY trio Naomi Folkard, Sarah Bettles and Bryony Pitman crashed out of the women’s team event in the last 16. Team GB are the world bronze medallists but they were beaten 5-3 by Italy as South Korea went on to take gold. ÷THE United States lost to France 83-76 in the men’s basketball — the Americans’ first defeat since the 2004 Games. The French had upset the US men when they last met in the 2019 FIBA World Cup quarter-finals and they had their number again on the first day of group play.

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