GB's Rutter wins silver in shooting three months after giving birth

If Amber Rutter felt any frustration when she turned to the crowd to acknowledge a silver shooting medal that might have been gold, it immediately abated as everything instantly fell into perspective.

- Ben Bloom

Rutter's three-month-old son, Tommy, was not meant to be in France. Under strict orders not to come anywhere near the National Shooting Centre, 170 miles south of Paris, her husband, James, was supposed to be at home with their baby watching on television.

If he had been, he would have seen the video replays that suggested Rutter had struck a decisive clay deep into a shoot-off for gold-replays that, controversially, were not available to the competition's referees, who incorrectly ruled that she had missed.

But father and son had secretly flown out to surprise Rutter and see her become the first British woman to win an Olympic shooting medal. "I had no idea they were coming," said Rutter. "I know Tommy might not remember it, but I definitely will so I'm so glad they made the journey.