Divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen won Team GB’s first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics with a dramatic bronze in the women’s synchronised 3m springboard.
The pair were in tears at the end of the competition as they snatched Britain’s first female diving medal at an Olympics for 64 years behind China and the United States.
They were sixth with two dives to go and fourth before the final dive but an excellent final effort moved them into third.
Australia looked set for bronze at worst, but a horrible mistake on their final dive meant they failed to overhaul Harper and Mew Jensen.
Londoner Mew Jensen, competing at her second Olympics, had struggled with a back injury in the run-up to the Games which limited her to just a month’s preparation, and her stunned expression soon turned to tears of joy after the Australian error.
The medal is Team GB’s first on the opening day of an Olympics since the Athens Games in 2004.
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