Great Britain is set for its lowest finish in the Olympic medal table since the 2008 Beijing Games after a series of near-misses in Tokyo. Team GB will fight it out with the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and Australia for fourth place in the Tokyo table with analysts predicting they will all end up with about 20 gold medals. SponsoredBritain finished second in the Rio 2016 medal table with 27 golds and 67 medals in all, third in London 2012 with 29 golds and 65 medals and fourth in Beijing 2008 with 19 golds and 51 medals. Dropping a place or two in the table is not unexpected — indeed in Rio five years ago, Britain had become the first Olympic host nation to increase

Source: The Times August 05, 2021 16:16 UTC