Stina Blackstenius pulled one goal back for the Swedish team, but it was not enough as the German women celebrated their first gold medal.
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Following his success in the relay final, she captioned a picture of Usain kissing his medal with the phrase “Track immortality”.
“I’ve worked hard every Olympics to win three gold medals, I’ve proven to the world I’m the greatest”, he said.
When Usain Bolt completed his triple treble, earning his ninth and final Olympic gold medal with the Jamaica 4x100m relay team, the world reflected on an all-time great and his illustrious track career.
These results don’t take away from the successes of all our other athletes, but something about the classic David v Goliath story and our Kiwis getting it done on the day just makes us smile that little bit more when the flag is raised afterwards.
Nine Olympic races. Nine gold medals.
Just four days later, Luuka Jones would stun the Canoe Slalom world with silver medal performance in her third Olympics appearance. He is expected to run in the 2017 World Championships and it appears likely he’ll call it a career after that.
“When I got inspired by Michael Johnson I was eight years old and I didn’t start coming into fruition in track until I was 18, so give it a decade”. “I have been doing this sport for more than 10 years now”, Liu added. The U.S. team had 29 overall at the London Games four years ago, and 40 at the boycott-marred 1984 Los Angeles Games. It’s come true. The pressure is real.
“I think people felt they were wanting to step up, they wanted to have a great Olympic experience”, said Felix, who leaves here with two gold medals (4×100 and 4×400 relays) and one silver (women’s 400), giving her a total of nine Olympic medals, the most ever for a US female athlete. He will retire after next year’s World Championships in London.
A total of 86 of the 129 US track and field athletes were competing at their first Olympics, including 17 of the 29 individual medal winners.
The U.S. women’s basketball team handily beat Spain 101-72 for a sixth straight title; the American women have not lost an Olympic contest since 1992. Americans took gold in the men’s and women’s 400-meter hurdles.
Despite the greatness that took center stage nightly, these were always Bolt’s Olympics.
It was only nearly single-handedly, though, as his three Olympic relay titles, two in world record times, always required the input of his fellow Jamaican speedsters. He also owns the records in the 100 (9.58) and 200 (19.19). He scored in 15 seconds into Brazil’s semifinal match against Honduras for the fastest goal in Olympic history.
His haul of nine gold medals is the joint highest among Olympic athletics, equal with United States of America sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis and Finnish long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi.
“As a kid I set out to do someting that nobody had ever done before”, Phelps said.
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The soccer championship is the headline event Saturday in the Rio Olympics on a day that features a full slate of track and field competitions, the USA women basketball team vying for another gold and a Hall of Fame golfer pulling off an impressive comeback.
