Warrington rower Lucy Glover suffers Olympic agony after failing to progress at Tokyo 2020

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Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Lucy Glover suffered Olympic heartbreak as she failed to make the quad sculls final in Tokyo.

The Warrington rower, making her Games debut, finished fourth in the repechage in a time of 6:42.97 to miss out on a place in the medal race alongside Hannah Scott and sisters Mathilda and Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne.

Having finished third in their heat, they relied on the back door to reach the final but came home 5.22 seconds shy of the top two.

Scott said: “I’m pretty gutted. That wasn’t the result we wanted and it’s not that we didn’t have it in us, there were just a few hiccups along the start and then that didn’t set us off to the best start. “It’s the Olympics