A cute scene ensued as Rupp sort of veered to the right to nearly double back to wait for Farah to get up.
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“When I went down, I thought oh my god, that is it”, Farah said of falling a little more than a third of the way through the race. I wanted to make sure he was OK first and foremost, and I told him to get behind me after that and I helped lead him back up.
Tanui hung on for silver in a time of 27.05.64 while Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola won bronze in 27.06.26. “I had only trained for three weeks and then again a slow start is let us down”, Karoki said.
The women’s 10,000m final was contested Friday.
Mo Farah retained his Olympic 10,000m title after a storming run which saw him get gold despite a mid-race fall.
The top two pairs in each of the four groups progress to the quarter-finals, but the British challengers finished third in Group B.
Farah suddenly fell to the track, tripped from behind by Rupp of all people, but he bounced back up just as quick, giving himself, it seemed, the thumbs up.
‘The twins from 2012 (Aisha and Amani, who were born shortly after the London Games) have got one of each and Rhianna’s missing one, so I thought, “I can’t, I can’t”.
His next chance to shine comes on Saturday in the 5,000m, when he can become only the second man to defend both that and his 10,000m title. Finland’s Lasse Viren is the only other athlete to accomplish the “double double”, winning and defending the gold medals in the 10,000 and 5,000 at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s eight-year reign as Olympic 100 metre champion came to an end on Saturday as fellow Jamaican Elaine Thompson surged to gold. The 22-year-old, who is ranked 42nd in the world, had knocked out Grand Slam champions Garbiñe Muguruza and Petra Kvitova as well as 14th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the earlier rounds.
The runner from Great Britain overcame a fall in the 11th minute of the race to win his second consecutive gold medal in the 10,000 meters. “I’m going away disappointed”.
He was clipped from behind in the early stages.
But Manyonga, who fouled two of his first three attempts, shocked the Brazilian crowd and his competitors with a jump of 8.28 meters in the fourth round.
“I knew I had something big in me”.
“I bumped into him, there was a lot of pushing”, Rupp said. It’s hard mentally when you go down.
Henderson’s victory was secured with his last jump, overhauling the South African by just one centimetre.
London 2012 golden girl Ennis-Hill was the favourite for gold in Rio despite taking time out between Olympic cycles to have her first son, Reggie.
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MO FARAH lives on a different planet to mere mortals which is why he will be DEVASTATED if he does not bring home two more Olympic golds.
