Rupp dropped back to check on his friend.
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Ultimately it proved that everyone in the field apart from Mo Farah was pre-destined to fight for silver in the men 10000m final of the Rio 2016 Olympics on Sunday morning and Kenya’s Paul Kipng’etich Tanui caught the bouquet for his country’s second medal at Rio 2016 in a dramatic final. With around 300 meters to go Tenui chose to go for it, though Farah caught him and sprinted to the finish line to win a historic third gold medal in a time of 27:05.17. “He tripped up, fell, and still won and did it the only way Mo Farah could do”. “We are just following his footsteps”. Suddenly, Farah’s path to a gold medal was significantly more hard.
The Great Britain star is unstoppable, plus Elaine Thompson takes the 100 and everything else from track and field on Saturday in Rio.
Farah who defended his medal in a time of 27:05.17 despite tumbling at some stage, said: “When I went down on a bend in the race, I thought, ‘Oh my God, that is it.’ I just got up and wanted to stick with the guys and stay strong”.
Manyonga took the lead on his penultimate jump with a mark of 8.37 meters and during a tense sixth and final round, Henderson bettered it by 1 centimeter.
“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.
Talking about his fall, he said: “When you go down, you get really emotional and I just tried to pick myself back up and believe in myself”.
– Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) August 14, 2016 A class run from a true Champion who had all the answers and kept his nerve to make history.
“It was simply wonderful distance running from Mo Farah”. Farah promised he would take a shot at Bekele’s 10,000 world record of 26:17.53 before he turns his attention to the marathon before the 2020 Games in Tokyo, although he wasn’t even sure what the record was Saturday.
But in major championships, few have ever been better.
“I bumped into him, there was a lot of pushing”, Rupp said. Farah also had history on his side.
Earlier in the day, Trott and team mates Joanna Rowsell, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker broke a world record when they won gold in the women’s team pursuit in a time of 4 min, 10.26 secs, defeating the US.
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“I’m not going to give away my secrets about training, but if you work hard at something you can achieve it”. The Brit calmly let several runners ahead of him, but was surrounded by the Kenyan trio with 17 laps to go; after the quickest lap of the race so far.
