“I was aware that “wow” they are lapping us already. It was nearly confusing what was going on”.
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“It was the craziest race I’ve ever been in”.
– Greg Rutherford, the victor of the men’s long jump at London 2012, squeezed through to Saturday’s final as the 10th-best qualifier, after two no jumps had put him under huge pressure. “For the 5,000 I prepared well, and I don’t think (running the 10,000) will make any difference”. One month later in the same stadium, she won the 5000m representing Africa at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup by over 24 seconds.
“I want to continue for now as I’ve got no thoughts of retiring”. Ayana dismissed any suggestions.
“I’m not sure that I can understand that”.
“I praise the lord, the lord gives me everything”, she said through an interpreter.
“My doping is my training and my doping is Jesus”.
Pavey was asked if she hoped the race was clean. “It’s hard to know isn’t it? Sometimes you take one on the chin”, Adams said. “However, the context matters – we know that Ethiopia have a nonexistent testing programme, and that they warn athletes when testers are coming for samples”.
“I am really pleased with the hurdles and the high jump”. It’s a sad day when someone can not do something good without it being questioned. It sends out a strong message. But I’ve got no reason to say everybody who does well is cheating. “And I have no reason to suspect this (Ayana’s) performance”.
“I felt like a lot of my career I missed out on moments that I should have had and that’s the same as many clean athletes”. After she answered, the translator speaking for her told the press the runner had given a “very sharp answer” in her native tongue.
With the world record being broken, it meant the pace was too much for most of the runners. – Ayana could scarcely believe her own performance, which will surely stand as one of the best at Rio in any event. “Realistically, I am getting very, very old”.
In swimming, Sun’s unhappy Olympics came to a shuddering halt when he finished seventh in his heat and 16th overall in qualifying for the 1,500m, an event in which he has been untouchable. When I was a school girl dreaming of going to the Olympics I never imagined I’d be standing here having done five.
“It’s been a great experience”.
Ran with confidence Running in the sixth of seven heats, with only the top-three sure of progressing, English ran with confidence, sitting at the very back of the eight-man field for the first lap, before moving up with immaculate timing to move into third down the homestretch, running 1:46.40, just down on race victor Brandon McBride from Canada, who took the win in 1:45.99, with Marcin Lewandowski from Poland second in 1:46.35.
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The world sports tribunal had earlier expelled European champion weightlifter Tomasz Zielinksi and Bulgarian 3,000m steeplechase runner Silvia Danekova over doping as the Games registered its first major cases.
