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Olympics: USA rack up relay golds; Barshim bows out with excessive bounce bronze | Paris Olympics 2024 Information


America have received their eighth consecutive Olympic girls’s 4×400-metre relay crown to clinch the nation’s 14th observe and area gold medal of the Paris Video games.

A star-studded USA quartet, which included two-time Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and 200-metres gold medallist Gabby Thomas, powered dwelling in 3 minutes and 15.27 seconds on Saturday.

The Netherlands took silver in 3:19.50 with Nice Britain grabbing bronze in 3:19.72.

“The US simply has a lot depth,” McLaughlin-Levrone stated after the win. “Each lady from the trials to the ultimate was going to do their job.

“I’m grateful that we have been all in a position to do this and are available out with a gold medal.”

Gabby Thomas, Sydney Michelle McLaughlin, Alexis Holmes and Shamier Little, of the United States, pose after winning the gold medal in the women's 4 x 400 meters relay final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Gabby Thomas, Sydney Michelle McLaughlin, Alexis Holmes and Shamier Little of the US pose after successful the gold medal within the girls’s 4×400 metres relay remaining [Ashley Landis/AP]

And within the males’s 4×400 metres relay remaining, the USA got here out on prime once more however solely simply, as Rai Benjamin held off Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo in an exciting last-leg battle between two particular person gold medallists, with Britain taking bronze.

The USA dropped Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who struggled badly within the heats, however didn’t usher in particular person 400-metre champion Quincy Corridor, as an alternative including 400m hurdles champion Benjamin to run the ultimate leg.

Chris Bailey took them out however handed over in third to Vernon Norwood, who ran a stormer within the heats and repeated it within the remaining to ship Bryce Deadmon off within the lead.

Botswana’s Anthony Pesela, nevertheless, closed the hole to arrange a dramatic finale.

Tebogo, the 200-metre champion who was drafted in on the final minute to run the primary leg for Botswana within the heats on Friday, sat on Benjamin’s shoulder and regarded poised to cross him coming into the ultimate straight.

Benjamin’s one-lap pace endurance confirmed, nevertheless, as he held him off to win in an Olympic report of two:54.43.

Botswana, bronze medallists in Tokyo, took silver in an African report 2:54.53 with Britain taking bronze in a European report 2:55.83.

Rai Benjamin, of the United States, celebrates after winning the men's 4 x 400-meter relay final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Rai Benjamin of the US crosses the road to win the lads’s 4 x 400-metre relay remaining [Petr David Josek/AP]

Kerr wins jump-off to bag gold

Within the area occasions, Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim received bronze within the males’s excessive bounce remaining, dropping the gold he received in Tokyo 4 years in the past to Hamish Kerr of New Zealand.

Kerr stated he was “in shock” after a uncommon athletics gold for his nation.

He tasted glory after a dramatic jump-off with American Shelby McEwen.

Each males managed bests of two.36 metres in common competitors, however couldn’t be separated on the countback of missed jumps.

They opted for a jump-off, Kerr clearing 2.34 metres when the American failed after the bar was lowered from 2.38 to 2.36 metres.

“I used to be simply in shock. Each me and Shelby have been getting a bit bit drained after all of the jumps we took,” stated Kerr.

“I knew I had a very good one in me and I knew that if I might get it up sooner moderately than later, then I might simply end the comp and begin recovering.”

There was a touch of deja vu on the Stade de France as Barshim had shared Olympic gold with Italian Gianmarco Tamberi within the COVID-hit Tokyo Video games three years in the past.

“That has such a particular place in historical past for prime jumps,” Kerr stated.

“To have an very same state of affairs this time round, however to decide on to do the jump-off, was placing at peace a few of these individuals who wished to leap off, so we’re each actually glad so as to add to that historical past.”

The dialogue Kerr and McEwen shared with officers was quick and to the purpose. Each athletes wished to proceed and there was to be no shared gold.

“We’re good buddies, good opponents and good jumpers after we bounce collectively,” McEwen stated of Kerr.

“He stated he wished to face off and I used to be all for it.

Barshim had a greatest of two.34 metres, however Tamberi – combating kidney stones – had an evening to neglect, ending eleventh within the 12-strong area with a greatest bounce of two.22 metres.

It was a fourth medal at a fourth Olympics for Barshim, however the Qatari insisted he wouldn’t be competing in Los Angeles in 2028.

“You will note me with popcorn, a number of extra kilograms and watching the fellows. That is my final Olympics for certain,” stated the 33-year-old three-time world champion who received Olympic silvers in 2012 and 2016.

His 4 medals, he added, have been “the legacy I need to go away behind. I’ve a lot to offer, possibly now it’s my time to offer to the subsequent era and hopefully, you’ll see the subsequent champion”.

Paris 2024 Olympics - Athletics - Men's High Jump Victory Ceremony - Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France - August 10, 2024. Gold medallist Hamish Kerr of New Zealand celebrates on the podium with silver medallist Shelby McEwen of United States and bronze medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
Gold medallist Hamish Kerr of New Zealand celebrates on the rostrum with silver medallist Shelby McEwen of USA and bronze medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar [Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters]

Russell beats dwelling favorite in 100m hurdles

Earlier within the day, American Masai Russell produced a surprising run to win the Olympic 100-metre hurdles title in a blanket end, edging out the house hope Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Tokyo champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn.

Russell clocked 12.33 seconds as French President Emmanuel Macron watched Samba-Mayela (12.34) ship France’s first observe medal of the Paris Video games with silver. Puerto Rico’s Camacho-Quinn (12.36) took bronze.

“I knew from the start I used to be a bit hesitant when the gun went off,” Russell stated.

Cyréna Samba-Mayela, of France, reacts after winning the silver medal in the women's 100 meters hurdles final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Cyréna Samba-Mayela of France reacts after successful the silver medal within the girls’s 100 metres hurdles remaining [Ashley Landis/AP]

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