final stroke

Moments later, USC’s JuJu Watkins added a final stroke to another masterpiece after being joyfully removed from an eventual 80-67 blowout.

The 25-year-old won a dramatic quad sculls final in Paris alongside Team GB team-mates Georgie Brayshaw, Lola Anderson and Lauren Henry, coming from behind to edge the Netherlands on the very final stroke.

That is until the final metres, so close to the finish line that the broadcasts had stopped measuring distance, that Anderson, along with teammates Hannah Scott, Lauren Henry and Georgie Brayshaw, nudged ahead at the final stroke.

In an Olympic final that must be considered a classic of the genre, the Team GB quad sculls crew of Scott, Georgie Brayshaw, Lola Anderson and Lauren Henry never led the Netherlands until the final stroke of the race.

Eventually, Ricardo loses on his final stroke—his ball does “a full wrap around the hole but lipped out”—and Adams wins.