Tom Dean will fly home from Japan on Sunday evening having become a double Olympic champion, as well as a national sporting hero almost overnight, and mum Jacquie Hughes says he won’t realise how much the country has got behind him until he touches back down in the UK.

Windsor’s Mallory Franklin produced an excellent run in the final of the women’s C1 canoe slalom this morning (Thursday) to get her hands on a well-earned silver medal.

Cookham’s Helen Glover just failed to add to her Olympic medal collection as she and partner Polly Swann finished fourth in the women’s pair on the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo this morning (Thursday).

When Tom Dean touched home to become Olympic champion in the early hours of Tuesday morning, it was all a bit too much for former Maidenhead Marlins Swimming Club coach, Paul Lloyd, to take in.

There was a dramatic conclusion to the women’s team gymnastics final yesterday (Tuesday) as Great Britain’s women pipped Italy for a place on the podium behind winners, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), and USA in second.