Olympic24: Scott takes silver as Fox-Pitt back in saddle

Giles Scott recovered from a frustrating Friday to take silver at Princess Sofia Trophy while Geraint Thomas prepares for today’s Tour of Flanders and William Fox-Pitt returns to action. Here's our review of the last 24 hours:

Giles Scott recovered from a mechanical problem on Friday to secure silver in the Finn Class at the Princess Sofia Trophy in Palma.

The three-time World Champion was put out of contention for the gold following Friday’s mechanical but finished fourth in Saturday’s medal race.

With Finnish rival Tapio Nirkko back in ninth, it was enough to hand the world number one the second step on the podium while gold went to New Zealand's Josh Junior.

"I'm pleased to come away with the second," Scott said. "I think there are a lot of positives to take away from the regatta.

"We've actually been experimenting quite a bit with some of the stuff that we've been using here so we've got some good info from that.”

Elsewhere there was a first international regatta gold for 22-year-old windsurfer Tom Squires.

The British Podium Potential squad member led the regatta from the outset and finished second in the medal race to finish with a 12-point lead.

Meanwhile, in the women’s 470 event, Amy Seabright and Anna Carpenter picked up a bronze medal while Luke Patience and Chris Grube finished fourth in the men’s event.

Charlotte Dobson and Sophie Ainsworth improved to sixth overall with a second place in their 49erFX medal race, Tom Phipps and Nikki Boniface ended their Nacra 17 regatta in seventh, and Laser sailor Jack Wetherell was fifth in the medal race to conclude his week in tenth overall.

Geraint Thomas is hopeful of winning the first 'Monument' of his career as he gears up to face the Tour of Flanders today.

The Team Sky rider won the Paris-Nice stage race earlier this season – the biggest win of his career to date – but recently pulled out of the Volta a Catalunya due to fatigue.

For all their success, Team Sky are yet to win one of cycling's five biggest one-day races known as the 'Monuments'.

Thomas was one of the favourites heading into the 2015 edition of the Tour of Flanders but despite flying under the radar somewhat in this year's build-up, the Welshman is confident of success.

"There's less expectation around me but we've got a super strong team," Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.

"We've got lots of cards to play so as long as one of us is on the top step on the podium that would be awesome.

"I'm feeling healthy. I had maybe four days off because I was run down after Paris-Nice, but I'm better now so it was a good call in the end.

"In previous years in some of the warm-up races I've been right there, but this is the big one everyone wants to do well in. "And over the years for one reason or another it hasn't quite happened but hopefully this can be the year. I guess time will tell."

First up was South Korea, with Scotland blanking the first end before opening the scoring with two shots in the second.

Korea could only score one in the third end and then, after blanking the fourth, Brewster hit out a Korean stone to score two more, for a 4-1 half-time lead.

In the sixth Scotland stole three shots when Korea's skip Soo Hyuk Kim attempted to come in off a winger, an attempt that failed.

Korea scored two in the seventh end and then Brewster had a draw for two more in the eighth end when Kim missed an attempted take-out.  Korea then conceded, with a final score of 9-3.

The Scots then followed this up with a 6-3 victory over Norway when returning to the ice later that same day.

"I am very happy," said Brewster after the opening win. "We weren't actually sure what we'd get from them today – we haven't actually played that side.

"I've watched on a couple of occasions and I know (David) Murdoch has played them three times this year, so we got a little bit of info from Scott (Andrews – alternate on the team), but you’re never quite sure, especially on arena ice."

William Fox-Pitt is back in the saddle following his serious accident last year and the eventing star is already targeting the Olympic Games this summer.

Fox-Pitt was placed in an induced coma following a fall in France in October, spending a month in hospital, but returned to action at the Burnham Market International Horse Trials this weekend.

The 47-year-old is Britain's most successful rider with 20 major championship medals and has climbed the podium at three successive Olympics.

He is already looking to make that four in a row in Rio come August but acknowledges how lucky he is to have come back into the sport at all.

"I'm very lucky to be here," said Fox-Pitt. "My team have worked hard to get the horses ready.

"Luckily it felt very normal [at the Burnham Market International Horse Trials] and I was riding two horses I know very well. They're both 16-year-olds and I've had them for years.

"But I've lost considerable fitness through my accident, though it's coming back and it's great to be feeling normal again.

"I've got a very good horse in Chilly Morning that I am hoping to take to Rio. I had him entered here but decided to leave him at home. He's not in any hurry – he can go next weekend. It feels very good but who knows what will happen?"

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