Tokyo Olympics: Bethany Shriever wins BMX gold as GB win five medals
Shriever had to fund her own qualification campaign after UK Sport cut its support for her event after Rio 2016, and two years ago she said she needed to raise a "worrying" £50,000 through crowdfunding.
Shriever's gold means GB become the third country, after France and the Netherlands, to win in all four cycling disciplines - BMX, mountain bike, road and track. Nicknamed the Prince of Peckham, Whyte has fought back from serious injury to earn his place on the Olympic podium.Although Scott again narrowly missed out on a first individual Olympic gold medal, finishing 0.28 seconds behind China's Wang Shun, he claimed a third medal in Tokyo.With the men's 4x100m medley to come this weekend, he could become the first first British Olympian to win four medals at a single Games.
Scott's silver medal came shortly after Greenbank took bronze in the 200m backstroke, describing his first Olympic medal as a "dream come true".
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