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Among the crowd was Olympic canoeist Adam Burgess, who is sponsored by the firm, and he said the King had a look at the silver medal he won in the Paris games last summer.

Before her 1994 Winter Olympics silver medal, an assailant struck her knee with a baton after a practice session.

And in July, a math-focused AI model from Google DeepMind performed at a silver medal standard on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad, the world’s premier competition for high school math.

It was not the first time the four friends have gained a silver medal either - as part of the over 60s team, they came second in the European Cup in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2019.

The box of the silver medal from London 2012's road race is now heavily frayed "thanks to all the primary schools I've taken it to".