Team GB hockey players Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh have spoken of their pride after becoming the first same-sex married couple to make it to an Olympic final together.

Kate, the team captain, said it will be a “really special” moment to stand on the podium on Friday with either gold or silver medals around their necks - a victory for diversity as well as their own hard work and that of their team-mates.

They have been playing hockey together for 17 years but only got together in 2008, when Kate, 36, called off her engagement to Brett Gerrard, the former captain of the GB men’s hockey team.