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The wind's picked up in Marseille, and Britain's flying again. Ellie Aldrich becoming the first ever Olympic kitesurfing champion, and ending the team's two-day goal drought. In the Velodrome, Ena Finuken was on for a second title in Paris, but bronzed this time in the women's kilin. Jay Jones won't even make the taekwondo podium, though, just like in Tokyo, an early elimination for the two times Olympic champion. Katerina Johnson-Thompson is also at her fourth Olympics. Maybe finally, this is her time for a medal, leading with three rounds remaining. One British medal already collected at the Stade de France, Matthew Hudson Smith's 400 Silver. After reflecting to Sky News on emerging stronger from physical, financial, and mental health challenges.

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There are going to be times when you doubt yourself, and there are going to be times where you're not feeling like you are where you should be, but sometimes just that ounce of belief and then having someone who also believes in you is all you need. If everyone It has their ups and their downs, and hopefully my story can inspire people just to just keep fighting a good fight and never give up on your dreams. And at the end of the day, if you have a dream, just chase it because you never know what it might lead to. Sometimes the journey is just as nice as the outcome. And my journey has been one hell of a journey. And the journey is still getting wrote, so I'm just going to keep going, keep fighting.

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And a big a mission for this team, inspiring and rallying a nation, divided by unrest while they've been in Paris.

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Really important that the British public have something more to celebrate. We appreciate. We don't see everything from back home. We're pretty cocooned, but we know that Britain is going through a tough time. And this British Olympic team is a mirror of the nation. We've got great diversity in the team. We've got a very, very strong ethnic mix, which we're really proud of.

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The minimum 50 medal target has now been passed by Team GB, and there's still three days to grow it even more. Rob Harris, Sky News, Paris.