Usain Bolt began his bid for a “triple-triple” with a 10.07 100 meters heat – with arch rival Justin Gatlin the fastest qualifier in 10.01.
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“I look up to her so much but I never thought I’d be sitting here today”, said Thompson. She’s known as the “Pocket Rocket” for her petite stature-she’s 5-feet tall- and explosive starts.
The U.S. women’s eight is a seemingly invincible boat, with 11 consecutive world and Olympic titles since 2006.
Here’s what you need to know about her career, and background. In that race she totally destroyed the confidence of one of Jamaica’s biggest threat, Dafne Schippers. She placed third at the 2015 World Championships.
Even her own relatives were among the killings.
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Her mother, Maxine was from a family of 14, and had given birth to Fraser as a teenager. “But I knew I had just one race to go tonight”.
“My mum wouldn’t let me go outside”. Past year told me I could do so much, she declared. Ranked 34th, she added her surprising win over the second-seeded Kerber – the Australian Open champion and Wimbledon runner-up this year – to those she picked up against two other past major champions, Garbine Muguruza and Petra Kvitova.
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, right, is embraced by Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou after a women’s 100-meter semifinal during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Ja. Farah fell early in the race-and another runner, trying to avoid him, almost stomped his head-yet the distance star from Great Britain recovered in time to defend his title.
“In 2008 it was my time, in 2016 it was her time and I’m happy Jamaica gets to keep the gold”. She is competing in her first Olympic Games.
The bronze medal was Fraser-Pryce’s lowest 100-meter finish in three Olympics. I knew the pain. We are self-approved. We don’t need anybody’s approval.
“She is still saucy but getting there”, Paul later told the Jamaican press. It’s safe to say there’s a dynasty in the works.
Fraser-Pryce, 29, was hoping to make history with Saturday’s night race to become the first person to win three gold Olympic titles in the same individual event.
She also captured a second silver when she finished second in the bang-bang finish of the 50-meter freestyle.
Thompson turned what was supposed to be one of the most competitive races on the Olympic program into a runaway.
Fraser-Pryce has been dominant on the global stage. She didn’t make her high school track team and, until she finished second in the 200m at last year’s world championships, had barely made a splash on the worldwide scene, tucked behind Fraser-Pryce and the country’s seven-time Olympic medalist, Veronica Campbell-Brown, among others.
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Fraser-Pryce meanwhile refused to be drawn on her future beyond Rio.
