(AP Photo/Matt Slocum). Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson is congratulated by Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce after winning the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter final during the athletics competitions in the Olympic stadium of the 2016 Summer Olympics in.
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Elaine Thompson dethroned fellow Jamaican sprint superstar Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to win the gold medal in 10.71 seconds.
Ahoure, Ivory Coast’s flag bearer, came into the Games having posted the equal-third-best time in the world this year, 10.78 seconds.
The men’s 100m semifinal and finals will both take place Sunday night. “It’s a journey, and as an athlete, many times you will be 60 per cent and sometimes 100 per cent and tonight (Saturday night) I’m happy with everything and all the glory goes to God”. It would also make her the first player to win gold in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. But the 24-year-old Dutchwoman finished second in the 100 at the world championships last August in Beijing. “I came here hungry, I came here determined to leave with a gold medal and I didn’t do that today but this just makes me a little bit more motivated for Monday”.
Best, who became the first track and field athlete to compete at an Olympics after playing in the National Football League, competes for Saint Lucia, the birthplace of his father.
Merlene Ottey won nine Olympic medals between 1980 and 2000.
“To represent the people, I’m really proud and I’m sure they’re celebrating”, she said.
It would’ve given her one day’s worth of bragging rights over Bolt, the oversized sprinter with the outsized personality who has overshadowed her in nearly everything despite their dual dominance. In recent years, thanks to a tradition first established by the likes of Merlene Ottey and continued by Bolt and Fraser-Pryce, Jamaica has dominated the world-best time lists and medal podiums through four Olympics. “I have seen her work hard, and it was her time”, Fraser-Pryce said. Though it was my to be for Fraser-Pryce as Thompson produced the performance of her life. Right before the finish, third Olympic gold safely around his neck-he also won the 5,000-m in London-Farah held his hands to his lips, as if blowing a kiss, then placed them on his head in disbelief.
It is unclear whether Fraser-Pryce was fully fit to contest the final after she broke down in tears following her semi-final win.
The last woman to win gold in all three events was Florence Griffith-Joyner at the Seoul Games in 1988.
The Jamaican sprinter is easy to spot on the track by her green and yellow dyed hair- not to mention her incredible speed.
“I’m not giving up on getting gold”, Bowie said.
Henderson won with a best of 8.38m, finishing 1cm ahead of South African Luvo Manyonga, with defending champion Greg Rutherford of Britain taking bronze (8.29). “Mentally I was thinking ‘Is the race done?’ And I said to myself ‘No, no.’ I’d promised my daughter I was going to bring home a medal and I couldn’t let her down”, he said.
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The U.S. enjoyed more success in another field event.
