Moe Sbihi
Olympic champion rower on BBC TV

The Netherlands are the party poopers, what a fantastic race. It's unfortunately heartbreak for Team GB, Helen Glover gave everything. They should be so proud.

It's another incredibly tight finish between Great Britain and the Netherlands - but this time the Dutch edge it on the line!

Heartbreak for Team GB, they take silver but were a matter of inches away from the gold.

There is no historic third gold medal for Helen Glover. She, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten gave their all but it is the Dutch celebrating now.

Moe Sbihi
Olympic champion rower on BBC TV

Stroke for stroke, Rebecca looks really calm, Helen looks really puffed, but GB are starting to take the lead now.

For the first time in this race, Great Britain edge ahead but Netherlands are not giving this up!

Moe Sbihi
Olympic champion rower on BBC TV

GB have just done a nice push in that third 500m and it is so nice to see, it's all to play for. Helen Glover's experience will be invaluable.

Are you ready for this?

500m to go and it could not be closer between Great Britain and Netherlands. They are still pretty much neck-and-neck!

Who will finish stronger?

Jess Eddie
Team GB Olympic silver medallist rower on BBC Radio 5 Live

Now Great Britain are moving, that power, that confidence is showing.

Moe Sbihi
Olympic champion rower on BBC TV

This is looking like a race for the ages, this is set up very nicely for the Dutch and GB. GB are just checking the Netherlands and will start to push for the lead at halfway.

Halfway through this race and Great Britain are second but they have come up almost alongside the Netherlands.

The Dutch try to respond but Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten are going well.

BBC iPlayer

Over on the Red Button and iPlayer is round one of the golf.

There are plenty of huge names out on the course with Team GB's Tommy Fleetwood and American Scottie Scheffler.

Ireland's Rory McIlroy is also in action.

Tune in!

Chris Jones
BBC correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live

For Helen Glover and Team GB, six minutes from history. Helen Glover's legacy as a British sporting great secured, can she etch her name further in to the history books, no woman has won three gold medals, she's done it twice. Will it be number three?

Moe Sbihi
Olympic champion rower on BBC TV

GB are looking like they have just settled into a much nicer, cleaner rhythm than their Dutch counterparts. Helen Glover is looking to just eek it out bit by bit.

Great Britain are in lane three. Not the fastest start from them but they're still in touch and have moved into second.

Netherlands have the early lead with Romania in third.

Helen Glover and co are starting to find their rhythm.

Alistair Watkins
BBC Sport in Paris

This is going to be tense. Hushed silence as this race gets under way.

Here we go then. Can Helen Glover win a three Olympic gold medal?

Alongisde Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten, she is part of the women's four for Team GB and they're favourites in this final.

Strap in, folks...

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More from Helen Glover has been speaking to BBCSport: "There are also positives. I'm a better mum for it and I'm sure of that. I'm really inspired and excited by this journey and I like to bring this positivity to the children. I know lots of parents kind of talking about losing themselves to parenthood and I feel that really strongly because I know what that can mean.

"I lost myself to sport in a way because I was going through London and Rio. Now, I have these two awesome parts of my life that I think really complement each other when I get the balance right and it's just about getting the balance right. Being the best mum makes me a better rower and the better I row, the more I can throw that into motherhood."

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More from two-time Olympic gold medal-winning rower Helen Glover, speaking to BBC Sport: "I think I have to have a certain amount of grace for the fact that actually, when I was in my 20s, I wouldn't have understood what it's like to be a mum. When I was in my 20s, if someone came in and complained about a bad night's sleep, I'd just smile and bite my tongue because I can't take anything personally, I have to live my life in a very certain way. My training looks a bit different, my gym sessions I do around kids pick-up.

"Do I expect my teammates to understand it? Not understand it, no, because until you're in it, it's hard to understand, but it is something which I think is really important, to have a stance on.

"One day, it will hopefully be somebody else. Not everyone will choose to come back after having kids, but everyone should have the option to choose to do it and I really strongly feel like anything I can do now in these next 10 weeks to strongly solidify every single person in the building having the option to carry on whether they want a career, whether they want a family. If I can leave a legacy behind, I want to be that."

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Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning rower Helen Glover has been speaking to the BBC about how close she came to quitting the sport after having kids: "I honestly feel bizarre talking about a fourth Olympics, I feel so lucky to have gone to one. I didn't think I'd be the person that was still going. I definitely I'd still be the person going when I've got a family. Sometimes, I feel just a bit of disbelief around going to Paris.

"There have been more than a few moments where I've questioned my decision. Some of them in a daily way you do as an athlete where you think this is really hard, some of them in a more reality checking moment of having heartfelt conversations probably once, maybe twice of me being very close to walking away. Very close to walking away, there had been really hard times.

"My decisions are made entirely around my kids. I always ask myself am I doing right by them, am I being the best mum I can be and if there are times where I start to question that, I have to question whether I stay in the sport and I had to change things. If there was a moment where I was asking that question and the answer was I need to change things, I'm going to keep going."

Helen Glover was the flag bearer for the opening ceremony and goes for gold again but she nearly quit the sport and now has the challenge of raising a family – hear more on the Paris Grassroots to Glory series.

Andy Gray
BBC Sport NI at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium

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"Stuff chemistry, let's get you in a boat".

Not many paths to the Olympics have started in a school science lab, but that's exactly what happened to Rebecca Shorten.

But her rise to the pinnacle of the sport may not have happened at all if it was not for a conversation with Enda Marron, her teacher at Methodist College, one spring morning in 2008.

"I remember one Monday teaching her in chemistry class and we were doing the blast furnace," Marron recalled.

"I said to her, 'let's forget about the chemistry and get you down to the river'. The rest is history'.

As Shorten prepares to go in the women's four final with Helen Glover, Sam Redgrave and Esme Booth, it turned out to be a very productive conversation indeed.

Chris Jones
BBC correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live

For some competitors and athletes they come as favourites and its gold or nothing, only gold will do. But just to put in context this boat, only a few months ago, they hadn't ever teamed up. They qualified last in the women's double sculls, the last GB boat to qualify. To get on the podium, given six months ago, they'd never teamed up before, is a very special effort.