Rio Olympics 2016: 31st Games set for opening ceremony

Rio Olympics 2016: 31st Games set for opening ceremony

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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates winning his 100m semi-final
 
The third semi-final (cheers). Britain’s James Dasaolu is introduced first in lane one. The great Yohan Blake, silver medallist in 2012, is in lane three. And then Justin Gatlin, the 2004 champion and now 34 has a ... mixed reception. Gatlin was the fastest qualifier from the heats. Gatlin is out quickly - quicker than Bolt was in his semi - but records a slower time than the Jamaican as he wins in 9.95sec. Blake got second. Bolt was the better runner in the semis. He must now be favourite.

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Bahrain’s Kemarley Brown, United States’ Justin Gatlin,
 
And here comes Bolt! You may have been able to tell from the roar that could be heard in Peru. Kim Collins WHO IS IN HIS 40s is here too, what an athlete. The man who may one day succeed Bolt lines up, the fabulously talented Andre De Grasse. As is USA’s Bromell and Britain’s Chijindu Ujah. False start, Bahrain’s Andrew Fisher. Bolt starts SLOWLY - that doesn’t matter though, he wins in 9.86. De Grasse follows him and has enough time to look round not once but three time as he comes in second. Yep, Usain still has it. Bromell took third from Ujah, I think.

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Usain Bolt wins the first 100m semi-final ahead of Canada’s Andre De Grasse
 
2016’s two fastest women’s 400m runners go in the final semi-final, Allyson Felix (the world champion) and Shaunae Miller. On paper, the top two should be fixed but Christine Day is a big threat too. Felix flows down the first 200m - not that surprising for the Olympic 200m champion. Felix wins ahead of Miller, the surprise is the Italian Grenot who coasts in third and will go through to the final as a fastest loser/least fast champion. Felix’s time of 49.67 was the fastest of the semi-finals.

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Shaunae Miller of Bahamas and Allyson Felix of the USA qualify for the final
 
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Phyllis Francis wins the first semi-final followed by Stephenie Ann McPherson as former champion Christine Ohuruogu falls short.
 
Ila kusema ukweli hakuna ubishi kabisa kuwa nyota wa hii michezo ya Olimpiki ni Usain Bolt!

Hata 2012 ilikuwa hivyo hivyo!
 
For the record, James won silver and Merritt the bronze. All three men ran inside 44 seconds. The other two would have won the race in almost any other race. The remarkable thing is that Van Niekerk got faster as the race went on. He was good for another 400m.

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Wayde van Niekerk dominates the final winning ahead of Greanda’s Kirani James and Lashawn Merritt of the US.
 
Wayde van Niekerk wins the 400m final and breaks the world record!
And now to the men’s 400m final. The country with the most athletes in this one is USA, Jamaica, Russian, ... Grenada. They’re represented by the Olympic champion Kirani James. LaShawn Merritt, the 2008 champion, runs for the US.

And we’re off. Van Niekerk is off quickly and he has the lead in the final 100m and he sprints away! And breaks the world record! He has broken Michael Johnson’s world record. I thought it was unbreakable! The world champion is now the Olympic champion.

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South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk crosses the finish line to break the world record in the men’s 400m final.
 
Genzebe Dibaba, the world record holder, goes in the second 1500m final. Hard to see her not winning this one, or at least coasting into the final and letting someone else have their moment in the sun. USA’s Jenny Simpson goes off quickly and has a very small gap going into the second lap. GB’s Laura Muir, the second fastest at this distance in the world in 2016, moves up as we go into lap three. Dibaba looks comfortable though we hear the bell for the final lap, and she takes off breaking the pack apart. Muir and Hassan of the Netherland follow her to finish second and third. Simpson gets fourth some way back, with Sweden’s Bahta fifth. That was a second quicker than the first semi. That’s what happens when you have the best runner in the world competing, I suppose.

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Genzebe Dibaba wins the second 1500m semi-final.
 
Simone Biles wins vault Olympic gold after Hong Un-jong gamble backfires
• Brilliant US gymnast claims third gold of possible five at Rio 2016
• Hong fell after attempting almost mythical triple twisting Yurchenko


Simone Biles’s total of 15.966 in the vault was far too good for her rivals, not for the first time, as she continues her quest for five golds at Rio 2016. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
Les Carpenter at the Olympic Arena


@Lescarpenter

Sunday 14 August 2016 20.12 BST Last modified on Monday 15 August 2016 00.50 BST

Simone Biles is only 19-years-old and stands just 4ft 8in and yet she looms as a giant over the other gymnasts at Rio 2016. Already being called the greatest gymnast of all time, she won her third gold here on Sunday simply by sitting in a green folding chair at the Olympic Arena.

Biles’s mere presence is forcing her opponents to try risky and dangerous things in the hope of somehow defeating her. Instead they fail and wind up handing her more golds. She barely has to try. On Sunday, in the first of her individual competitions – the vault – she crawled inside the head of North Korea’s Hong Un-jong who is her biggest rival on the apparatus.

Un-jong is one of the most-feared gymnasts on the vault. Reportedly, video exists of her once completing a triple-twisting yurchenko, which is so challenging and dangerous few have dared to try it.

Biles, right, herself cannot do a triple-twisting yurchenko, calling it “crazy” and settling for a double twist. But given Biles’s supreme dominance here as she goes for a record fifth gold medal Un-jong had no choice. If she was going to beat Biles she was going to have to do the triple-twisting yurchenko. As fate would have it, Un-jong was the first competitor. Her first attempt, without the triple-twisting yurchenko, got her a 15.400. An excellent score, but not good enough to beat whatever Biles would put up. This meant she had no choice to but to try the “crazy” version.

It did not work. Un-jong completed the spins twisting down like a diving torpedo but when she hit the mat, she fell, landing on her back. She slowly picked herself up and stumbled to the chair area where she sat sullenly on the floor, picking tape off her legs. When her score, 14.900, flashed on the scoreboard she dropped her head. The vault competition was essentially over.

This left the rest of the competitors to run through their routines in a hopeless pursuit of Biles’s brilliance. Once they were finished, Biles – scheduled to go last – walked up and nailed her first vault with a 15.900.

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Nilidhani Gatlin wakati anaongoza angeweza kuchomoka lakini wapi bana....hili li Jamaica si binadamu😀
 
First man in history to win three-peat as the gold medal winner!

Usain St. Leo Bolt.

Jamaica stand up
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