Who will emerge as fastest man over 100 meters and 400 meters?
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Nathan Bailey was ninth overall in the men’s trampoline event in Rio and weightlifter Sonny Webster finished sixth in Group B of the -94kg weightlifting after recording a total of 333kg from his 148kg snatch and 185kg clean and jerk.
Women’s Coxed Eight: Team USA took home gold with an impressive time of 6:01.49, a full two seconds over Great Britain, who won silver with a time of 6:03.98, and Romania who took bronze with 6:04.10.
Australians are seeking answers after their expensively-funded swimmers struggled to redeem themselves at the Rio Olympics after a disastrous showing in London four years ago.
There’s plenty of action across 12 sports with 22 gold medals being awarded Sunday. On swimming’s last night, the American men’s and women’s 4×100-meter medley relay teams hope to repeat their golden races of the London 2012 games. As the 100 meters heats begin, American Justin Gatlin and fellow Jamaican Johan Blake will try to rain on Bolt’s parade. Can anyone spoil the coronation in Rio? His total income tax bill for the 2016 Games? “And after prelims and semi-finals and seeing where I was sitting, when I came in tonight I was like, “I want to get on that medal stand”.
If anyone is going to come close to breaking Phelps’ all-time gold medal record, it’s going to be Ledecky.
South Africa’s Wayde Van Niekerk set the world record in the 400m at 43.03. He has already notched up victories over those distances at three successive World Championships – the “Triple-Double”.
Elsewhere, Matthew Hudson-Smith finished second in his semi-final to qualify for the 400m final but both Asha Philip and Desiree Henry fell at the semi-final stage in the women’s 100m as did Michael Rimmer in the men’s 800m.
American Simone Biles and Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura have been exceptional.
“It means a lot [to be the first black woman to earn gold in the pool]”, Manuel said after the race.
Simone Biles achieved what was expected of her, but it’s the other Simone who has dominated headlines the last few days in Rio.
It’s also the men’s sprint semi-finals Saturday.
It was an emotional night on court for Andy Murray as he retained his Olympic crown against Juan Martin del Potro after an epic encounter. Poland, China, Italy and New Zealand are also still in the hunt.
“One thousand gold medals is a remarkable achievement made possible by the culture of sport that is the fabric and foundation of Team USA”, said US Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun.
UK Sport, the government agency that allocates Exchequer and National Lottery money to Olympic and Paralympic sport, believes this success is the product of financial support and world-class planning.
The world’s top four players – Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy – skipped the Rio Games because of Zika fears and safety concerns.
Those three athletes have combined to serve almost nine years’ worth of doping suspensions since 2001, criteria that could very well have disqualified them from Rio if they were competing under a Russian flag.
The event was introduced at the Sydney Games in 2000.
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Wrestlers may lack the grace of the swimmers, but the same desire to win will be seen in a packed program with bouts across two weights. “I always wake up every hour, you know”, she quipped, cementing her reputation as a goofy new star.
