August 3, 2024Aug 3 Author And now a first ever Olympic medal for Dominica in the women's triple jump. With gold for Lafond.
August 3, 2024Aug 3 And a second first ever medal for a country in the Athletics tonight as Thea Lafond from Dominica gets gold in the Triple Jump! A good night for the small nations.
August 3, 2024Aug 3 St. Lucia and Dominica getting their first ever Olympic medals, golds, on the exact same day :heart: that's cute. Windward Islands eating good tonight.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 Author Reekie is the second British athlete who said they're in great shape but failed to take advantage of that.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 So not only do we have to put up with the ridiculous universality entries in the 100m we also get a qualifying system where you can run faster than others ran in other heats and still get knocked out in other distances. Absolutely ridiculous, should be 8/9 fastest runners on an overall leader board through to the final. None of this crap knocking out faster runners who happened to be in faster heats - totally unfair.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 So not only do we have to put up with the ridiculous universality entries in the 100m we also get a qualifying system where you can run faster than others ran in other heats and still get knocked out in other distances. Absolutely ridiculous, should be 8/9 fastest runners on an overall leader board through to the final. None of this crap knocking out faster runners who happened to be in faster heats - totally unfair. 100 % agree with you. Why they don't use swimming system of qualification in athletics ?
August 4, 2024Aug 4 A fun evening of athletics. I really thought Kishane Thompson would take the men's 100 m gold but Noah Lyles just pipped him to it. It was so close between them with both having a time of 9.79 but a photo finish made the difference. Keely Hodgkinson comfortably winning her semi final in the women's 800 m, she will probably go on to win gold in the final. 3 medals for Ukraine was heart-warming to see as well including gold and bronze in the women's high jump. Canada won gold in the men's hammer throw.
August 4, 2024Aug 4 Happy Lyles won, as much as he is arrogant (a proper trait of track & field stars) I think he's box office. Looking forward to seeing Duplantis tomorrow!
August 5, 2024Aug 5 Author Fantastic Keely Hodgkinson! Ran from the front and never looked in danger . Superb race .
August 5, 2024Aug 5 And we finish with an Olympic record from Armand Duplantis! Didn't expect anything less from him.
August 5, 2024Aug 5 Great win from Keely. Such a calm and composed finish. Definitely will inspire a new generation of runners
August 5, 2024Aug 5 Gold for Keely Hodgkinson! Last Dreamer will be happy. Queen. :cheer: The previous Olympic day brought some negative emotions, so her win became even more important.
August 5, 2024Aug 5 Duplantis is actually insane - what he is doing is incredible and he's so far ahead of his competiton it's crazy.
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