Running the second leg in the relay, Felix kept the US up there with the mighty Jamaicans, before English Gardner and Tori Bowie brought the baton, tightly clenched in their hands, home for gold.
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“I want to stay around the sport”.
In women’s 5000m, Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot shocked the favorite, Ethiopia’s Ayana Almaz, by setting an Olympic record time of 14 minutes 26 seconds.
Liu finished fourth in the race at both the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics.
The relay gold was the final act of an incredible Olympic career that redefined athletics and often left commentators scrambling to find a new vocabulary of superlatives as each new milestone came and went.
Jamaica’s 4x100m relay triumph concluded a day of athletics in which seven gold medals were decided in Rio’s Olympic stadium.
But Bolt has insisted he is clean.
Despite the glory of last night’s success with his third gold medal, Bolt, who turns 30 on Sunday, has confirmed that this will be his last Olympics.
Bolt made sure to go out on top, using his otherworldly breakaway speed to give us one more jaw-dropping moment in a career that’s been loaded with them.
He hates the training, but you could see a little gleam in his eyes after South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record and set the mark at 43.03. The Americans won the final in 41.01 seconds, giving Allyson Felix her record fifth Olympic gold medal in women’s track and field.
If there was ever a question about the value the Olympics has today, look no further than the celebrations in Fiji – a country brimming with pride after their men’s Sevens team lived up to expectations and delivered the small Pacific nation its first ever medal – a gold one at that. “I have been doing this sport for more than 10 years now”, Liu added. But on Saturday, the seven-time major victor took command with a 5-under 66 and won a gold medal.
“I’ve got to do it twice at these Olympic Games and they kind of got robbed of that experience”, De Grasse said of his teammates.
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On Friday, the Kenyans were counting on a medal in the 5,000 meters they got gold and silver.
The track drama Friday and the prospect of a Brazil football final on Saturday nearly overcame the shame felt by many Olympians after star swimmer Ryan Lochte had to apologise for inventing a story that he had been mugged in Rio.
Great Britain secured their first gold medal in the women’s hockey event as the they defeated World No.1 Netherlands in a dramatic penalty shootout (2-0) after they ended normal time on level terms with a 3-3 scoreline.
The U.S. quartet of Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie led nearly the whole way and celebrated their win with the large contingent of Americans in the stands. “We are focused only on playing well and winning this gold medal”.
“It’s very humbling, and I’m thankful to share it with these special ladies”, Felix said. The team got a chance to compete only after it was granted the rerun following a protest.
American Ashton Eaton, who defended his decathlon title in Rio, was described by Bolt after his victory in London four years ago as the world’s best athlete.
“I love competing. So I’m going to miss all of that”.
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On women’s part, the United States clinched its 11th Olympic women’s 4x100m relay title, setting the second fastest time in history.
