August 3, 20241 yr Author And now a first ever Olympic medal for Dominica in the women's triple jump. With gold for Lafond.
August 3, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr Author Reekie is the second British athlete who said they're in great shape but failed to take advantage of that.
August 4, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr Author Fantastic Keely Hodgkinson! Ran from the front and never looked in danger . Superb race .
August 5, 20241 yr And we finish with an Olympic record from Armand Duplantis! Didn't expect anything less from him.
August 5, 20241 yr Great win from Keely. Such a calm and composed finish. Definitely will inspire a new generation of runners
August 5, 20241 yr 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, 20241 yr 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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