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Team GB were thwarted successful their effort to triumph their first badge of nan time connected Thursday erstwhile nan mixed multi-hull sailing squad were disqualified seconds into their badge race.
John Gimson and Anna Burnet seemed assured of Olympic glory successful Marseille Marina but were forced to retreat from nan double-points title aft an avoidable gaffe.
The squad were judged to person crossed nan starting statement earlier clip and could only declare nan maximum 22 points - moving them down from 3rd spot to fourth.
Gimson and Burnet - who scheme to wed adjacent period - had planned to get onto nan podium nan time before, but were forced to hold for nan postponed title to beryllium rescheduled for Thursday day pursuing a deficiency of wind.
Not realising that they had misjudged nan commencement of their race, nan mates past grounded to propulsion disconnected nan 360 grade move and restart mandated by nan event's rules.
John Gimson (left) and Anna Burnet were near heartbroken aft being disqualified successful their mixed multi-hull badge race
The Team GB brace had been targeting an betterment connected their metallic badge decorativeness successful Tokyo
Gimson comforted his visibly distraught fiancee aft nan extremity of their podium hopes successful France
Judges were past forced to disqualify nan pair, successful a determination which near Burnet visibly distraught.
Instead, France won nan title but Italy successful 2nd claimed golden connected points, pinch Argentina nan metallic badge winners and New Zealand finishing third.
On their debut successful nan arena successful Tokyo, Gimson and Burnet won metallic and had been keen to amended upon their decorativeness 3 years agone connected nan French Riviera.
Obviously we’d emotion to triumph golden here,’ Gimson exclusively told Mail Sport up of this week's contest.
‘My metallic badge lives connected nan bedside array and is rather a bully information to aftermath up too.
'Anna keeps hers successful nan sock drawer.'
