When the baton was passed onto Bolt for the final leg of the 4X100m relay, Jamaica was slightly ahead of the rest of the field, and there was hardly any doubt about who was going to win gold. At center top Connor Fields of the United States.
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The men’s team appealed their disqualification as well, but the original decision stood. In the final, Neymar not only clinched the win in penalty kicks but scored the team’s lone goal in regulation. The Jamaicans won the 2012 Olympic gold medal in 36.84 seconds, a world-record time.
Connor Fields became the first US victor of a gold in BMX biking, throwing down his bike and jumping into the arms of his team after crossing the finish line.
It didn’t bother them.
In the end, the USA mishap was a sideshow to Bolt, who is nine for nine in Olympic finals after sweeping the sprints at the Rio Games. He already claimed gold in the 100 in Rio.
They have been together for two years and he is said to call her his “First Lady”.
“As soon as I got the baton, I knew I was going to win this one”.
After winning three gold medals at the Games he was also pictured partying way into the the early hours of the morning at a club in the Barra de Tijuca suburb of Rio.
Recent 2016 Rio Olympics results revealed that Usain Bolt has earned the ninth gold medal of his career.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates victory after the Men’s 4 x 100m Relay Final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday.
Bolt’s incredible run of success began in Beijing in 2008 with a stunning victory in the 100m final, where he dropped his hands ten metres before the line and showboated past the cameras. What are you going to do?
“It’s been a great career, I’ve done all I can do”.
A throw of 56 meters is far from the 90.3-meter throw that earned Germany’s Thomas Rohler a gold medal in the event, but it was just a few meters behind the 59.77-meter throw recorded by decathlon gold medal victor Ashton Eaton. The U.S. men’s relay wasn’t. The Americans now have 27 medals with two days to go, including 10 gold.
The Americans were disqualified in what has become an embarrassing habit for US sprinters: It was the ninth time since 1995 the American men flubbed the relay at an Olympics or world championships. The U.S. team had 29 overall at the London Games four years ago and 40 at the boycott-marred 1984 Los Angeles Games. “I mean, considering how big our country is I’m not too surprised”, she said with a laugh. There was an upset as Vivian Cheruiyot powered past slumping favorite Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia and set an Olympic record of 14 minutes, 26.17 seconds.
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His ensuing retirement from the Olympic Games, announced during a commercial promotion in NY past year, will leave the sporting world with an extraordinary legacy in his name.
