Brazil’s Braz Thiago da Silva celebrates after the men’s pole vault final at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 15, 2016.
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France’s Renaud Lavillenie shows off his silver medal during the medal ceremony for the men’s pole vault final at the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.
The reigning Olympic champion made the remarks after collecting silver behind Brazil’s Thiago Braz da Silva, who achieved an Olympic record of 6.03 metres.
The crowd was loud in its appreciation of a silver at least for Da Silva, cheering as Sam Kendricks of the United States had to settle for bronze after a third failure at 5.93m.
Da Silva had an upset win over the defending champion yesterday and thousands of fans booed the Frenchman as he tried to reclaim the gold-medal position during the thrilling, late-night duel.
While saying he doesn’t want Brazilians to lose their passion, Andrada added, “we’re paying very much attention to the fact that booing is not the right thing to do when you are competing at the Olympic level”.
“In 1936 the crowd was against Jesse Owens”, he said of the black American sprinter whose four gold medals in Berlin were an affront to the Nazi ideology of racial superiority. The U.S. did blow out Argentina in an exhibition leading into these Olympics, but Ginobili played just over 14 minutes with Scola and Nocioni playing a shade over 23 and 22 minutes, respectively. Brazil’s only other gold victor so far is Rafaela Silva, a product of one of Rio’s toughest favelas who beat Sumiya Dorjsuren in the final of the women’s -57kg judo division last week.
Brazil’s Thiago Braz da Silva celebrates his victory at the end of the men’s pole vault final. “We’ve not see this since. We have to deal with it”, Lavillenie said, before later apologising for the heat-of-the-moment comment.
“It really disturbed me, I felt the nastiness of the public and we do a sport where you never see that”, Lavillenie fumed.
Shaunae Miller of Bahamas throws herself across the finish line to win the gold medal ahead of Allyson Felix USA and Shericka Jackson of Jamaica in women’s 400m final.
But the captivating battle between hot favourite and plucky home hope at the Olympic Stadium failed to register with some Rio residents, who were more concerned about a first round volleyball match between Brazil’s men and France.
Algeria’s Taoufik Makhloufi took silver while fast-finishing American Clayton Murphy grabbed bronze.
Rudisha’s time was 1.24 seconds slower than the world record he set when winning gold at the London 2012 Olympics.
There were also golds for Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk, with a world record in the women’s hammer and 19-year-old Ruth Jebet of Bahrain via Kenya in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase. He dropped the bar three consecutive times, ending his first Olympic Games before world record holder Renaud Lavillenie had jumped even once.
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“This is a great performance and I am so proud and happy with myself”, said Rudisha.
