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thornley held off a determined late burst from aa—year—old bela russian ekaterina karsten, a two—timeon in two big races today. they had a high speed collision in their race againstjapan yesterday which left a large dent in their hull. ainslie, though, has tweeted this afternoon that he's looking forward to today's racing and it appears that the repair work has been successful. gb won their first race yesterday, which was against sweden, but lost to japan after the collision. no one was looking for a collision there. sometimes it happens. again i thought we did a greatjob to get round the course considering the damage we had. we were hanging in there, most of the race despite that. yeah. today bodes well for the team and we have got to go and fix the damage. our shore team are the best in the game, and they'll do everything they can to get us out there racing tomorrow. that's all sport for now. you can keep up to date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. we'll have much more in sportsday at 6.30pm. let's go back to the bank holiday weekend british airways chaos. in rome, b