Jamaica extends their domination to hurdles
Omar Mcloyd of Jamaica came up with a brilliant performance to clinch Gold at the 110m hurdles event with a performance of 13.05 seconds with Orlando Otega of Spain and Dimithri Baskov of France clinching the Silver and the Bronze medals respectively. USA who traditionally dominates the event saw one of their athletes disqualified due to an illegal start and the other ended up in the 5thplace.
True sportsmanship lights up the Olympic stadium
Abbey D’Agostino of USA and Nikki Hambling of New Zealand collided during their heat of 5000m event and D’Agostino was quick to reach out to Hambling who was still on the floor reportedly telling her “get up we need to finish this” instead of continuing to catch up to the rest of the runners. As the race continued it was D’Agostino who was in severe pain as she has badly injured her ankle in the clash, Hambling was quick to reciprocate the earlier gesture by D’Agostino hanging back to encourage the American to finish her race. Both Athletes then embraced each other before D’Agostino received medical attention in a wheel chair.
Though not qualified for their performance in the heat the Olympic committee has decided to reinstate the two athletes in the final if they are fit to participate.
Team GB Overtake China
Team GB is currently experiencing a Gold Rush in Rio having won 19 Gold medals so far in the Games and have now surpassed China in the medal table. With the Cycling do Jason Kenny and Laura Trott winning Historic gold medals to become GB’s most successful Olympians having won 6 & 4 Gold medals respectively many are agreeing that this is the best showing from Great Britain’s Olympians In the recent past.
