10 highlights from the Paris Olympics

McLaughlin-Levrone stands alone

Monitor followers had been licking their lips in anticipation on the prospect of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone going up towards European record-holder Femke Bol within the girls’s 400m hurdles. Nevertheless it was a no contest ultimately because the American flew to a world report of fifty.37 as Bol completed a upset third in 52.15 behind one other American, Anna Cockrell. Learn extra right here.

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Duplantis reigns supreme

There are robust favourites for occasions after which there are close to certainties. Mondo Duplantis fell into that class in Paris and, after dispatching of his rivals, the Swedish pole vaulter went on to clear a world report of 6.25m. Learn extra right here.

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Sifan Hassan completes ‘Zatopek treble’

After successful bronze within the 5000m and 10,000m, Sifan Hassan went into the marathon on the ultimate day of the Video games asking herself as regular “why am I doing this?” In a high-quality dust-up between most of the world’s high marathon runners, although, she noticed off the problem of world record-holder Tigist Assefa and Hellen Obiri to take gold in 2:22:55. Learn extra right here.

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Cole Hocker shocker

In essentially the most anticipated occasion of the athletics programme, all eyes had been on Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh Kerr. But after Ingebrigtsen had set off at world report tempo it was Cole Hocker who stormed via within the residence straight to take a shock gold in 3:27.65 from Kerr and Yared Nuguse with Ingebrigtsen out of the medals. Learn extra right here.

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Thiam vs KJT

Nafi Thiam gained her third Olympic gold in Paris and to take action she needed to combat off the problem of world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson within the heptathlon. It was an exciting competitors which went all the way down to the wire because the Belgian struck gold with 6880 factors. Learn extra right here.

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Fingers of Stona

When world record-holder Mykolas Alekna threw an Olympic report of 69.97m within the second spherical of the discus, he seemed unbeatable. However in one of many largest upsets of the Video games, Rojé Stona, a little-known Jamaican who had been having trials for NFL within the run-up to the Video games, beat that mark with 70.00m. “I’ll need to rethink my future now,” he mentioned on his NFL vs athletics dilemma. Learn extra right here.

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Golden woman Gabby

Gabby Thomas was essentially the most profitable athlete in Paris with three gold medals. Two of these got here in relays with the USA staff however her particular person second was within the 200m when she beat 100m champion Julien Alfred in model in 21.83. Learn extra right here.

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Keely delivers

Britain’s solely gold of the athletics programme got here within the girls’s 800m. Keely Hodgkinson was favorite however nonetheless needed to do the job towards a troublesome subject that included world champion Mary Moraa. After going via the primary lap two seconds slower than she deliberate, the 22-year-old took the race by the scruff of the neck and blasted residence in 1:56.72. Learn extra right here.

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Kipyegon scores a hat-trick

Everybody was speaking about Eliud Kipchoge going for a 3rd Olympic marathon crown however a fellow Kenyan Religion Kipyegon was attempting to win her third consecutive 1500m title and she or he nailed it with an Olympic report of three:51.29. Sizzling on her heels, Jess Hull took silver for Australia with Georgia Bell, one of many revelations of the yr, breaking the British report with 3:52.61 for bronze. Learn extra right here.

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Beatrice Chebet on the double

After successful a controversial 5000m last that noticed Gudaf Tsegay tangling with Religion Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet returned to out-sprint Nadia Battocletti to 10,000m gold. After successful her second world cross-country title this yr, Chebet is arguably the world’s No.1 feminine distance runner proper now and her marathon debut might be much-anticipated. Learn extra right here.

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