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The Netherlands denied Britain’s Helen Glover a third Olympic rowing gold in a thrilling women’s four final while New Zealand ended Romania’s women’s long unbeaten double sculls run at the Paris Games on Thursday. Glover, who won pairs gold in 2012 and 2016 and was British flag bearer at Friday’s opening ceremony, and her team-mates battled neck-to-neck with the Dutch over the second half of the 2,000 metres course at Vaires-sur-Marne. But in the end the Dutch world champions Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins and Benthe Boonstra prevailed by .18 of a second, with New Zealan…

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