Manchester's Georgia Taylor-Brown recovers from puncture to take triathlon silver
The 2020 World Champion had to play catchup after getting a flat tyre on the last lap
Georgia Taylor-Brown overcame a puncture to win silver for Great Britain in a wet women's triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Taylor-Brown went into the race as the reigning world champion and one of the favourites for the title but had to play catch-up on the 10 kilometres run after getting a flat tyre on the last lap of the bike leg.
She quickly caught team-mate Jess Learmonth, who finished ninth, and Germany's Laura Lindemann and then reeled in American Katie Zaferes to match fellow debutant Alex Yee's achievement in the men's race and win Britain's seventh triathlon medal in the last three Games.
But there was no catching Duffy as the the 33-year-old, who was awarded an OBE in 2018, showed herself to be the class of the field with a historic victory for Bermuda, whose only previous Olympic medal was a bronze for boxer Clarence Hill in Montreal in 1976.
Tropical storm Nepartak had been threatening the coast of Japan for several days and Tuesday morning brought wind and heavy rain.
Brazilian Vittoria Lopes lost touch with the lead group on lap six and the only blessing for Taylor-Brown was that her puncture came with only a few hundred metres to go.
She started the 10 kilometres run 22 seconds down, with Duffy and Zaferes already up the road, but Taylor-Brown is a talented runner and she soon overtook Learmonth and Lindemann to climb into the medal places.
The 27-year-old from Manchester was tantalisingly within touching distance of Zaferes for two laps but made her move just before the bell to climb into second and put her hands to her face in disbelief as she came down the finishing straight.