Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana celebrates winning the Women’s 10,000m during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016. A winning time of 29 minutes, 17.45 seconds was enough to earn victory by over 15 seconds, ahead of Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot and two-time reigning champion Tirunesh Dibaba.
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The pace was already on a record course, but Ayana established it even quicker as she bolted to the front just after the halfway mark.
In a changing of the guard that left him totally at peace, Phelps was beaten Friday by a 21-year-old who grew up idolizing the most decorated athlete in Olympic history.
Cheruiyot won world championships a year ago, and Dibaba was the two-time defending Olympic champion who skipped the 2015 season to have a baby.
“Tirunesh Dibaba, the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion, claimed the bronze medal”. When a newcomer with an extraordinary record comes along at a time when so many athletes have succumbed to banned substances, the rumors, whether true or not, will inevitably begin to fly.
US runner Molly Huddle completed 6th in 30:13.17, breaking the American record. Zielinski had failed a test in Poland before the Games, Michal Rynkowski, director of Poland’s Commission Against Doping in Sport, told reporters in Warsaw. I’m very happy to get here, ‘ she said.
Cheruiyot went with Ayana but was always struggling to stay in touch, and the closing laps quickly became a race against the clock and a question of whether Ayana could beat Wang’s long-standing world best. “The men’s 10,000m final will be held Saturday night”.
“I don’t know. She seemed like she was ill before the race, coughing and stuff”.
“I just tried to hang on to some girls and then in the last couple of kilometres, I just found myself in no man’s land”, said Marchant, 32, who is also competing in the women’s marathon on Sunday morning. Otherwise, I’m crystal clear’.
The world sports tribunal had earlier expelled European champion weightlifter Tomasz Zielinksi and Bulgarian 3,000m steeplechase runner Silvia Danekova over doping as the Games registered its first major cases.
Ennis-Hill, 30, won the 100m hurdles and placed third in the high jump as she bids to become only the third woman to retain an Olympic athletics title after giving birth.
“I never thought the Chinese record would go”, she said.
“No. 1, I did my training, specifically in the 5 and 10”, she said in comments translated to English.
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Ethiopia’s Alice Nawowuna, who led through the first 5,000 before Ayana smashed the race wide open, was also under the old Olympic record at 29:53.51. Still, it raised some inevitable question marks, and questions, the Swedish runner Sarah Lahti, who finished 12th in a national record of 31:28.43 (improving her best by 26 seconds), immediately expressing her doubts over whether or not Ayana was running clean.
