Bolt completed his triple-triple after Allyson Felix won her record fifth Olympic gold medal when the Americans – who needed to set a qualifying time in a solo rerun hours after dropping the baton in the preliminaries and getting a second chance on protest – won Friday’s final in 41.01 seconds.
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Simone Biles of the United States poses for photographs with her gold medal after the medal ceremony for the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Team on Day 4 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena on August 9, 2016.
Dalilah Muhammad powered to a brilliant victory in the women’s 400m hurdles to become the first victor of the event from the United States in Olympic history. Ren Qian won gold, and she is only 15 years old. It continued into the evening with wins by Ryan Crouser (men’s shot put), Ashton Eaton (men’s decathlon) and Dalilah Muhammad (women’s 400 hurdles). The 12 goals scored and seven-goal margin of victory were records for the Olympic final.
FORFEIT: NBC’s Tim Hutchings wasn’t happy to see Javier Culson of Puerto Rico disqualified from the men’s 400-meter hurdles for a false start.
“When I got out of the warm-up pool for the last time to get ready to go up to the blocks, I have the white shoes that I wore pretty much every finals”, Michael Phelps recalled. In 2012 I was battling injuries and surgeries.
What about the Tokyo games in four years’ time? “I’m just honored to get a gold medal”. Also two shots back in the final group is Gerina Piller, the American who narrowly qualified for the Olympics in her final event.
“I’ve been dreaming about wrestling Saori for so long”.
Maroulis said it was an honor just to wrestle against Yoshida and that she didn’t pay attention to the high stakes in the match.
She said she skipped Christmas dinner and missed out on dinners out with friends.
In Rio and any other Olympics, broadcasters are frequently criticized for a concentration on a home nation’s athletes that causes it to miss interesting stories involving others.
USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus issued his own statement tonight, in which he said, “The last five days have been hard for our USA Swimming and United States Olympic families”.
“I didn’t perform by best in the heats and semifinals but I was able to keep cool when it mattered today, especially in my last three dives”.
But what happens when we take a look at where these medal-winning American athletes hail from?
ALL IN THE FAMILY: Alistair Brownlee of Britain successfully defended his gold medal in the men’s triathlon.
The brilliant British brothers were the first siblings to share the podium in an individual event since 1908 when Jonathan collected bronze behind Alistair in London.
That’s especially true with the Summer Olympics, said Matt Delzell, managing director at the Marketing Arm, a sports marketing agency. And Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi of Japan won gold in women’s badminton doubles.
According to the report, both Brazilian and foreign tourists rated entertainment options and nightlife in the city as “good” or “very good” and 75 percent of them said their main activity during the day is going to the beach.
RATINGS: Bolt’s gold-medal run on Thursday lifted NBC’s ratings in the dying embers of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
In another Olympics dominated by US women, Steffens and her teammates shined as brightly as any of them.
A day after winning another gold in the 200 meters, Usain Bolt will appear in what he’s said will be his final Olympic race. And Germany beat Sweden 2-1 for the nation’s first Olympic gold in women’s soccer, a title the USA women were expected to win.
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The American women’s 4×100 relay team will try to capitalize on its reprieve following a collision on a handoff at the Olympic track stadium, and Germany and Sweden meet in the first all-European Olympic women’s soccer final.
