YEP Says: Team Yorkshire is lighting up Rio 2016

london 2012 was always going to be a tough act to follow given the tremendous success enjoyed on home soil by Britain's Olympians. Yet over in Rio, Team GB is once again lighting up the world stage.

An astonishing weekend saw new heroes created, with Yorkshire sportsmen and women in the thick of the action. On the water there was a third gold medal for a men’s eight that featured three Yorkshiremen including Leeds’s Paul Bennett. There is the promise too of further rich reward for Yorkshire talent in the shape of Nicola Adams and the magnificent Brownlee brothers. Good luck Team Yorkshire!