CHOPPY WATERS: While worries about water pollution marked the run-up to the Rio Games, it was really the whipping wind that stirred up trouble during Olympic rowing.
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And the stadium was electric.
Inside the stadium, scores more journalists awaited a midnight news conference, where Bolt said victory in the 200m on Thursday would upgrade his status from “legend” to “immortal”. “I thought the energy they brought was ridiculous. I just want to be among the greatest, so that’s why I am here”.
He won the men’s 100 meters Sunday for a third consecutive Olympics, something no runner had ever done before.
Believe it, though, when you see the magnificence of a runner so smooth and fast that nothing that made him this spectacular could have come out of a bottle.
Trayvon Bromell, a 21-year-old Floridian and Baylor University runner, finished in eighth in Sunday night’s final.
Nobody was hurt, but Lochte told NBA’s “Today” show that one of the robbers put a cocked gun to his head and ordered him to get on the ground. “He’s showing kids out there that the impossible is not impossible”.
A split-second later, Bolt raised the index finger, signaling he’s still No. 1, and then the real party began. “I knew Justin Gatlin was going to get a start as always”. I’ve dreamed of this medal since forever.
If that is truly the end, as Bolt has said it will be, he will go into the record books as the greatest sprinter ever.
Klay Thompson ended an Olympic-long slump with seven 3-pointers and 30 points, and the USA needed nearly all of them to hold off France 100-97 in basketball. “Somebody said I can become immortal”, he said afterwards. “It was shocking. I guess some people are more vocal than others”.
Ibarguen, 32, grabbed Colombia’s second gold medal of the Rio Olympics, twice clearing 15 meters with a best jump of 15.17m.
The golden shoes were a nice touch, but the gold medal was far more impressive. He will run in the 200-meter dash, in which he claimed the gold medal at the past two Olympics, and Saturday he will cap what figures to be his final Olympic Games with another anchor leg in the 4×100 relay.
South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk, in the race before Bolt, shattered Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record and 20-year-old Olympic record in the 400.
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“Yeah, so you know what that means, we’re going to have better funding from Own The Podium and Sport Canada, and continued support from B2ten”, Eriksson said, “so I’m looking forward to that”.
This run made Gatlin a silver medalist on Sunday evening because trying to keep up with Bolt is almost impossible no matter how fast he’s running.
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The American has served two drugs bans, though he denies any deliberate wrongdoing for either, and at 34 was bidding to become the oldest 100m champion.
