The moments of Paris 2024: Team GB's Moment of the Games

Paris 2024 18 Oct 24

The best Olympic moments never fail to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Whether it's an unfathomable comeback, a dominant performance or an unexpected gold, the tears start to flow and the celebrations go down in history.

That's why we're asking you to vote for your favourite Team GB Moment of the Games.

With five outstanding performances to choose from, the winner will be crowned at Team GB Ball on Thursday 21st November to wrap up a year to remember for Team GB athletes.

So, relive the top moments from this summer's Games once more and vote for your favourite by downloading the Team GB App below. By submitting your vote, you'll also be in with a chance of winning Team GB kit from Paris 2024.

Alex Yee - The comeback king

Alex Yee's golden final kilometre will go down in Olympic triathlon history.

About 15 seconds behind leader and friendly rival Hayden Wilde of New Zealand, Yee looked down and out in Paris with two kilometres to go.

If anything, the gaining French duo

of Léo Bergère and Pierre le Corre were the bigger concern, with Yee admitting afterwards that he was going through a bad patch as the home favourites

began to track him down.

But despite the majority of onlookers believing that the Brit was stuck on silver, Yee himself had other plans.

With just a few hundred metres to go, the Tokyo 2020 individual silver medallist kicked on and reeled in the Kiwi to take victory on the Pont de Alexandre III by six seconds in a stunning performance.

Keely Hodgkinson - The golden girl

Keely Hodgkinson had done everything possible in 800m running except win a major global gold medal.

But when she arrived in Paris, the sense was that this was her time. Athing Mu, who beat Hodgkinson to gold in Tokyo and then the following year in Eugene was absent, but reigning world and Commonwealth champion Mary Moraa, of Kenya, stood in her way.

When the final came, Hodgkinson dictated the race and led the pack, but still had Moraa on her shoulder coming into the back straight, a concern given the Kenyan’s propensity for a fast finish.

But there was no reason to worry, Hodgkinson had another gear or two and before anyone could try to run her down, she just stepped it up and ran away from the field. After Olympic silver, two World silvers and Commonwealth silver, Hodgkinson chose the perfect moment to strike gold on the biggest stage of all.

Toby Roberts - Climbing into the history books

Toby Roberts psyched himself up for a shot at Olympic climbing gold by listening to the Eminem classic ‘Lose Yourself’.

At 19, Roberts was born three years after Eminem released that song but a quick look at the lyrics explains just why it is so appropriate for a budding climber: “if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?”

Sitting third after the bouldering section of this men’s Olympic sport climbing final, the equation was thus for Roberts in his favoured lead section: 77 points to overtake Austria’s Jakob Schubert to go top, 74 for second. By the time he fell from the wall, he had 92.1.

The assumption was that 17-year-old prodigy Sorato Anraku from Japan would score the 86 points he needed for gold, and Roberts would take a well-earned silver but just as he approached the decisive spot on the wall, Anraku lost his grip, let it slip and Roberts clinched a glittering gold.

Tom Pidcock - From puncture to podium

One of the most entertaining final laps of any race, Tom Pidcock won gold in Paris thanks to perhaps the most daring move of his career.

Three years after winning gold in Tokyo, Pidcock pitched up at Elancourt Hill as the favourite to retain his title. And yet when his front wheel punctured at the end of the third lap of eight, suddenly the equation changed.

France’s Victor Koretzky started to build a lead, and Pidcock had to bury himself to keep in the medal hunt and get back into pole position.

Still, that took a lot of energy and when Koretzky attacked once more, it seemed as though Pidcock had nothing left to give.

However, looks can be deceiving and at the crucial moment, just before the duo came out of the darkness into the light of the home straight, Pidcock seized his chance, darting left past a tree as Koretzky went right and sneaking in front of the home favourite for an unexpected and thrilling gold.

Women’s Quad - At the very last stroke

Leaving victory until the last second can make for some of the most memorable moments of a Games, and our women's quadruple scullers proved just that in Paris.

Undoubtedly the best race of the Paris 2024 regatta, Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw trailed the Netherlands for 1950 metres, possibly even more.

But on the very final stroke, they somehow found the strength to move into first and claim a sensational gold.

Upping their pace and creeping towards the leaders when it mattered, it was a gold won by the finest of margins and led to a wholesome celebration on the water when the words 'Great Britain' flashed up next to first place.

It was a dramatic victory and particularly poignant afterwards when Anderson spoke of the fact that her father Don, who has since passed away from cancer, kept an old diary entry she wrote as a teenager about her dream of becoming Olympic champion. Now she can finally say that she is.

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