Indonesia triumphed in the tie-break after the 29-year-old had missed the chance to close the game out in regulation.
Claire Taggart held herself responsible for the cruel tie-break defeat to Indonesia that saw ParalympicsGB fall at the quarter-final stages of the Boccia mixed team competition at Paris 2024.
“We really struggled to get started and one of the things we have been working on is comebacks,” said Taggart, who is one of over 1,000 elite athletes on UK Sport’s National Lottery-funded World Class Programme, allowing them to train full time, have access to the world’s best coaches and benefit from pioneering medical support – which has been vital on their pathway to the Paris 2024 Games.
“We had the opportunity to score the points that way and it is where we did score most of our points. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Taggart and Smith were both up against the players who beat them in their individual bronze medal matches but were unable to enact revenge.
The mixed team were in a strong position with just one ball of the sixth end remaining before Indonesia played a brillaint shot to level things up and force a tiebreak.
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