- Women’s hockey semi-final: Netherlands 5-1 Great Britain
- Two Dutch goals in space of a minute break GB
Hockey at these Games is played at the Oi Stadium, and if that sounds impertinent it has nothing on the impudent, insolent and downright rude manner in which the Netherlands dispatched Great Britain in the Olympic semi-finals and ended the reign of the women’s champions.
Team GB were swatted aside 5-1 by the imperious Dutch, who took their revenge for what they saw as an upstart British victory in 2016’s final that interrupted their dominance of the women’s game. Here, the world order was restored.