Maybe there was some comfort for Eaton – and loads of other athletes looking for some attention – with Bolt’s suggestion afterward that he’s almost done. He couldn’t beat it.
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Field events haven’t gotten much airtime in Rio, so it’s easy to miss the stack of medals the US has accumulated in the throwing and jumping events.
“I was thinking if this guy goes, if I have to run to put myself in the hospital, that’s how hard I have to run”, Eaton said. “So I guess it’s just age and all the rounds that’s taken toll”.
The twice world champion became just the third man to win the Olympic decathlon twice, a feat last achieved by Briton Daley Thompson at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
“Bolt will attempt to put the seal on what he says is his final Olympics in Friday´s 4×100 relay”. Still, Mayer netted 814 points to Eaton’s 734, which left the American just 44 points in front going into the 1,500 meters.
Warner has come such a long way from the shy kid who only joined track in high school so he could miss class.
At least the after-party was great.
First, though, Bolt’s target is the sprint double.
His record in his favorite race still stands, though, at 19.19.
Crouser did take his sixth attempt in hopes of both surpassing his newly established Olympic record and making a run at the world record (23.12 meters), taking advantage of what was essentially a “free attempt”.
Thursday’s was an all-out effort – no hot-dogging allowed – in the race Bolt has always called his baby.
Wiebe is Canada’s third-ever gold medallist in wrestling, following Daniel Igali at the 2000 Games in Sydney 2000 and Carol Huynh in Beijing in 2008.
United States’ Ashton Eaton celebrates after winning the gold medal in the decathlon.
The “awesome hour” of the night before had evolved into a pretty great 24 hours for the U.S by Thursday night.
Considering his wife and fellow Duck alum Brianne Theisen-Eaton already brought home the bronze in the women’s heptathlon earlier this week, they’re going to need to clear out some space on their trophy mantle.
“I’m getting older and my body is ageing”. With just the clock and the crowd for company, the Americans took the baton around in 41.77 seconds to reach the final.
It was bronze, not the gold he wanted, but the smile on his face when he crossed the 1,500-metre finish line, the final event of this grueling two-day discipline, suggested he wasn’t complaining. Mayer finished with a new French record of 8,834 points while Damian Warner of Canada won the bronze at 8,666 points.
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In the women’s javelin, the ambitions of the Czech Republic’s Barbora Spotakova to earn three consecutive Olympic golds went west in the same way as they had for Tirunesh Dibaba, who took bronze in the 10,000m, Valerie Adams, silver medallist in the shot, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who settled for bronze in the 100m.
