It was a better showing than the US men’s 4×100, which was disqualified for an improper exchange, although the USA appealed and still was waiting on an answer in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
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The United States women’s volleyball team won a bronze medal after its 3-1 defeat of the Netherlands.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Allyson Felix and LaShawn Merritt are savvy track stars who’ve been around long enough to know that not everything always goes to plan.
In Thursday morning’s preliminary heat, Felix stumbled as she approached Gardner, and the USA women dropped the baton.
Unlike other races where another runner can simply be added to the final, the relay is limited to eight finalists because there are no additional lanes for extra teams.
It didn’t bother them. Felix, who ran the anchor leg, now has six gold medals, improving her all-time record for women in Olympic track and field.
Allyson Felix brings home gold from Rio after all.
Felix expects to race once more in Europe this year before turning her attention to the World Championships in London in August next year, when she will be 31.
Bartoletta, whose two world long jump titles remarkably came 10 years apart, with a stint on the United States bobsled team sandwiched in between, was delighted with her double gold. “The adversity yesterday made us even more determined and we kept fighting the whole way through”, said Felix after the triumph. But if this was her final Olympic race, it’s fitting that she went out a champion. It was the eighth Olympic medal won by Felix overall, and her fifth career gold.
Yego held on for silver despite sustaining an injury, winning his country’s first ever medal in a field event ahead of Keshorn Walcott, who won Trinidad & Tobago’s first medal of the Rio Games.
It was not all perfection for the Americans though. She’d been raring to go, waiting all week for Friday to roll around to run in the 4×400 relay team. Japan (37.60) edged the US and Canada (37.64) in a photo finish for second place at the line. Japanese anchorman Aska Cambridge held off the Americans, who were later disqualified for an exchange outside the zone in what has nearly become a USA tradition by now.
The U.S.so dominated its women’s 4×400 relay semifinal on Friday, there was no drama for Phyllis Francis on the final leg.
But Bolt was long gone – having stopped by the track quickly to receive gold medal No. 9 and take a selfie with Farah – and South Africa had left the building, too.
The U.S. team has been on such a run, that Bowie takes it in stride.
“I glanced. I mean, I realize we’re leading the medal count”.
I would have been really happy with a silver, Centrowitz said.
On Friday, the Kenyans were counting on a medal in the 5,000 meters – they got gold and silver.
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Ayana set off strongly and seemed to take the lead for good after one third of the race. But fatigue caught up with her and Cheruiyot and compatriot Hellen Obiri, who won silver, saw their chance.
