It is mission accomplished, pretty much. “I’m the first Indian woman to get a silver medal at the Olympics so that’s a great thing for me”, she beamed.
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– Really strong -The US team were forced into a solo re-run of their qualifier on Thursday, having overturned a disqualification for a dropped baton exchange between Felix and Gardner.
“Everything Bolt does I try to imitate, to see if one day, if God wishes, I could be a third of what he is”, he said on a recent Reuters visit.
It was the ninth time since 1995 that the US team has been disqualified from a relay at an Olympics or world championship. The first one I was just happy, the second one was a challenge and to come into the third one is just unbelievable.
Olympics: Usain Bolt has achieved the triple triple winning 3 golds in 3 straight Olympics, while the Aussie women made it to the final of the 4 x 400m relay. They defended their gold medal in 41.01 seconds, the second-fastest time in history, behind the world-record 40.82 they set in London.
The U.S. quartet of Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie led nearly the whole way and celebrated their win with the large contingent of Americans in the stands.
– Lochte apology -Off the track, six-gold medal swimmer Lochte apologized for inventing a story about an armed mugging to cover up an act of vandalism at a Rio gas station.
“It’s very humbling, and I’m thankful to share it with these special ladies”, Felix said.
He took part in round one of the 4x100m relay competition in Rio.
Bolt has not said if he would consider the post, and in any case has committed to run at next year’s World Championships before bowing out from competition.
In an interview with AFP on Friday, Coe said Bolt had transcended his sport in a way that was comparable to boxing icon Muhammad Ali. He declared after his 200m success on Thursday night that his legs refused to go faster and he felt exhausted.
“Yeah, this is the last one, guys”, said the champion, who turns 30 on Sunday, the same day the Olympic cauldron is extinguished.
The 19-year-old Ko hit her first ever hole-in-one on Friday to keep up the pressure. “If this was any other meet, any other place or time we get treatment and cancel out”. Let’s watch and appreciate what Jenn is willing to go thru to represent America.
German sportswear firm Puma, which has sponsored Bolt for half his life, hopes to lure him into a job, Chief Executive Bjorn Gulden told reporters just before the Games.
Suhr finished seventh. Ekaterinin Stefanidi of Greece won the gold. The only Olympian to win more is US swimmer Michael Phelps, who upped his record to 23 with five golds in Rio.
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Canada were elevated to bronze after their run of 37.64, a national record which gave Andre de Grasse his third medal of the Games after his bronze in the 100m and silver in the 200m. Cheruiyot set an Olympic record with a time of 14:26.17.
