Tori Bowie of the United States won bronze.
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It might be even tougher to upstage him.
In Bolt’s semifinal heat, the Jamaican star smiled and wagged his finger at a brash up-and-comer. It kept going with another Jamaican, Elaine Thompson, completing the first 100-200 women’s double since 1988.
Other top track events include the women’s 800 meters and 400 meter hurdles and the men’s 400 meter hurdles, the decathlon and shot put.
Bartoletta and Brittney Reese went 1-2 in the Olympic long jump, Tori Bowie captured a bronze in the 200 meters and Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin swept the medals in the Olympic 100-meter hurdles – a feat that’s never been accomplished in that event.
LASHAWN MERRITT: It’s not Bolt, but Merritt, who now has the year’s best time at 200 meters (19.74 seconds). Gatlin finished in 20.13 seconds, three days after he took silver in the 100. She’s won every Olympic match she’s been in, on Wednesday becoming the first woman to win an individual event at four consecutive Games.
Lochte isn’t in Brazil anymore and it’s unclear where Feigen is. The problems continued Wednesday when a Brazilian judge ordered that the passports of Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen be seized and that the American swimmers stay in Brazil as authorities investigate Lochte’s claims that he was robbed at gunpoint. Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were trying to leave Brazil and head back to the States but authorities pulled them off a plane before it departed.
After the game, a shirtless Neymar pumped his fists as the crowd at Maracana Stadium chanted his name. But they’re ahead of the game.
Women’s semifinals, usa versus France, 6 p.m. ET: The American women enter the semifinals riding a 47-game Olympic winning streak and will vie for their sixth straight gold medal, which would be their ninth in 10 appearances. “He’s really slow at the blocks, but when he gets going, he gets going”. “I can’t run properly and I had a tight turn in lane three”.
In basketball, America had their best performance of the tournament to comfortably beat Argentina in the quarter-finals.
The chat show host made a decision to pay homage to the Olympics in the best way she knew how – by tweeting a LOL meme of her Photoshopped hanging onto Bolt’s back during his 100-metre semi final sprint.
“I’m just so grateful we were able to accomplish this together”.
– A senior Olympic executive from Ireland was arrested and taken to the hospital Wednesday after police raided his beachfront hotel as part of an investigation into the illegal sale of tickets for the Olympics. Ireland’s national Olympic committee said Hickey is stepping down “until the matter is fully resolved”. Patrick Hickey was accused of plotting with at least nine others to sell tickets above face value in a scheme that authorities say netted about $3 million in profits.
Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn became the first 18-hole leader in the history of women’s golf in the Olympics.
The Republic of Korea have an incredibly strong quartet in Rio with seven-time major victor Inbee Park leading the pack.
Few athletes dominate their sport like Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho. That would be the 400, where four nights earlier, Merritt staggered across the line in third, almost a full second off of Wayde van Niekerk’s world-record pace.
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“That was really unnecessary”, Bolt said. Since bursting onto the scene at a young age to win European gold in 2010 and 2012, the Frenchman has gone downhill and hasn’t reached his potential.
