“Over the last four years, I’m sure people have been watching me win the worlds and come back”.
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The women’s 10,000m final was contested Friday.
It was Britain’s sixth medal in the Olympic swimming pool this week while Phelps picked up the 28th of his illustrious career.
“It’s really special and the fact that I could do it with the relay is fantastic”. For the 5,000m I just have to recover now, get through the heat and see what happens.
While Rutherford was just two centimetres off his golden 2012 performance, this time 8.29m bagged him the bronze as a rollercoaster competition saw him beaten by Jeff Henderson of United States of America and South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga. Britain is also third in the overall medal count with 27.
Earlier Team GB won gold in the men’s rowing eight and silver in the women’s event.
Mo Farah feared his hopes of defending the Olympic 10,000 metre title had vanished when he suffered a fall en route to a superb victory at Rio 2016.
The 33-year-old Briton will now aim to recreate his double gold haul from London 2012 when he competes in the 5000m on Wednesday.
Farah sprawled to the ground midway through the 10th lap after he and American Galen Rupp got tangled up in a turn.
“You gotta have a short memory in this sport sometimes, and I’m just going to be focused on recovery-a lot of ice baths, massage, stretching, and all that stuff and getting ready to have another race”. Looking back winning a medal would have been awesome, but being an already prideful person would it have made me worse?
The men’s eight – Scott Durant, Tom Ransley, Andrew T Hodge, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, William Satch and Phelan Hill – won gold on the water earlier on Saturday.
Elaine Thompson, another Jamaican, routed the field in 10.71 seconds, with Fraser-Pryce taking bronze in 10.86.
In day session of the athletics competitions, Usain Bolt strode calmly through the 100m preliminaries with 10.07 seconds and qualified fourth fastest for the semifinals as he begun his bid for a third straight Olympic gold medal.
Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Duncan Scott finished in three minutes 29.24 seconds as Phelps’ USA squad won in 3mins 27.95secs – a new Olympic record.
“It felt pretty far”, Henderson said of his medal-winning mark.
If he wins that race, he will become the first man since Lasse Viren in 1976 to retain two Olympic distance titles.
As the reigning Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European champion, Rutherford had been favourite ahead of the Games.
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The gold and bronze performances were Jamaica’s first medals of Rio, a count that is expected to rise as the focus shifts from swimming to track and field over the coming week.
