11 23 JULY - 8 AUGUST OLYMPIC GAMES THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2021 McLaughlin lights up Olympic track ydney McLaughlin oblit- Serated her own world re- Canadian De Grasse ends cord to win Olympic gold in the women’s 400m hurdles yesterday. At the Olympic Stadium, McLaughlin powered home in 51.46 seconds, with de- long wait for gold fending champion Dalilah Muhammad claiming sil- ver in 51.58 after another onships, finally fulfilled gold at three consecutive al but gold. classic duel between the Andre De Grasse his potential under the Olympics from the 2008 He came into the turn two dominant American • clear night sky at the To- Beijing Games before re- third but seemed to find a hurdlers. wins first post-Bolt kyo Stadium. tiring in 2017. higher gear to surge past The 21-year-old Olympic 200m The 26-year-old Canadi- For most of the race, his American rivals in the McLaughlin’s blistering an became the first Olym- however, it looked like De last 40 metres and claim time bettered her world re- AFP | Tokyo pic 200m champion since Grasse would again finish victory cord set at the US trials in Jamaican Usain Bolt, who with any med- Oregon in June, when she w o n ran 51.90sec. anada’s Andre De World champion Muham- Grasse ended a long mad, 31, also ducked inside Crun of finishing the previous world record, with minor medals with bronze medallist Fem- by winning the ke Bol of the Netherlands Olympic men’s Andre De Grasse of Canada crosses the line to win gold just outside the 52-second 200 metres gold with a Canadian national als, appeared poised to end mark. medal with record. his country’s long wait. It came a day after an epic a scorching The last time the United But Lyles was passed duel between Karsten War- time of 19.62 States won this event was by his team mate Kenny holm and Rai Benja- seconds in 2004, when they swept Bednarek, who took the min in the men’s yesterday the medals. silver medal with a time 400m hurdles, tobecome Noah Lyles had es - 19.68, and had to settle for which ended the eighth tablished himself as the bronze in 19.74. with Nor- fastest world’s top 200m sprint- Bednarek w a y ’ s man over er in 2018 by winning all had arrived the dis- his races over the distance in Tokyo in tance. and posting a series of sub- red-hot form after D e 19.7 times. his 19.78 personal best at Warholm Grasse, who claimed the Andre De Grasse of World champion Lyles, the US Olympic trials and winning and im- 100m bronze and 200m Canada celebrates who came to Tokyo with running in the lane next proving his own silver at the 2016 Olympics with his national flag a 2021 world-leading time to De Grasse helped him world record by and 2019 World Champi- after winning gold of 19.74 set in the U.S. tri- through. a huge margin. Sydney McLaughlin Japanese teen wins skateboard gold Georgia’s Talakhadze breaks world record OLYMPIC MEDAL TABLE TOTAL apanese teenager Sakura Japan’s Sakura to conquer men’s super heavyweight class JYosozumi maintained Yosozumi China 32 22 16 70 the hosts’ stranglehold on eorgian strong man Lasha Talakhadze USA 25 31 23 79 the skateboarding com- Gbroke his own world record to retain petition. the title in the men’s heaviest weight class Japan 21 7 12 40 Yoso- at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday with a Great Britain 15 18 15 48 zumi won combined lift of 488 kg. the wom- Talakhadze, who won a gold at the Australia 15 4 17 36 en’s park skateboarding event want to go 2016 Rio Games in the same cate- ROC 14 21 18 53 to stop compatriot Kokona Hi- back home and gory, lifted 223 kg for the snatch raki and Britain’s Sky Brown eat some deli- and 265 kg for the clean and Germany 8 8 16 32 becoming the Games’ young- cious food.” jerk to also break his own world France 6 10 9 25 est-ever gold medallists. Japan also records in the two categories. The 19-year-old carved up snapped up “I feel pretty good - I have just Italy 6 9 15 30 the Ariake Urban Sports Park the men’s gained a second Olympic gold medal Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia in action Netherlands 6 8 9 23 with a flowing opening run in and women’s and of course I have also set another world the final, and her 60.09 points street titles ear- record,” Talakhadze said through an inter- kg class. Syria’s Man Asaad took the bronze South Korea 6 4 9 19 proved enough for victory lier in the Games and they preter. with 424 kg. ahead of Hiraki and Brown. have now bagged five of the “We were for a long time looking forward Talakhadze dominated the field from the New Zealand 6 4 5 15 “This medal feels unreal nine medals so far as skate - to the Olympics and to win this gold.” beginning. He was the last lifter to start both Cuba 5 3 4 12 -- it feels like a dream,” said boarding makes its debut His total was 47 kilos more than Iran’s Ali the snatch and the clean and jerk, and made Yosozumi, as she celebrated as one of four new Olympic Davoudi, who took silver in the men’s +109 three consecutive attempts for each. India 0 1 2 3 at a sun-baked Ariake Urban sports. Sports Park. Both Brown, at 13 years and “I hope skateboarding is 28 days, and Hiraki (12 years Korir leads Kenyan 1-2 in men’s 800 metres going to be very popular in and 343 days) were bidding to Sprint queen Thompson-Herah Japan because of the strong break an 85-year-old record to performances of the Japanese become the youngest Olympic blocked on Instagram over TV rights team,” she said, adding: “Now I gold medallists. Kumar wins by fall to reach final ndia’s Ravi Kumar found on twice world champion Za- Ihimself 9-2 down against vur Uguev in the gold medal Kazakhstan’s Nurislam San- bout after the Russian Olympic ayev in the freestyle Committee (ROC)wrestler beat bantamweight Iran’s Reza Atri 8-3. semi-finals but However, Kumar’s com- turned things patriot Deepak Punia was Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir (L) of Kenya celebrates crossing the finish line to around late in the no match for 2018 world Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica celebrates winning gold on Tuesday second period to champion David Taylor win gold ahead of silver medallist, Ferguson Rotich of Kenya secure victory of the United States, who ot even the fastest wom- pics over the two distances in enya’s Emmanuel Korir injury. by fall. scored with a series of Nan in the world can out- Tokyo, making it four Olympic Kwon the men’s 800 metres Korir, 26, pounced round- The turns to win the freestyle run Tokyo 2020 Olympics gold medals from two Games. Olympic title yesterday with ing the bend into the home Indian middleweight semi-final broadcast rights holders, with But her attempt to share her compatriot Ferguson Rotich straight, passing Australia’s Pe- will 10-0 in the first period. gold medallist sprinter Elaine Tokyo competitions with her taking silver. ter Bol and was never seriously take Taylor had im- Thompson-Herah saying she 310,000 followers on Insta- Korir timed 1min 45.06sec threatened from there on. pressed in the had been blocked on Insta - gram backfired. with Rotich finishing in 1:45.23 Rotich came with a late run previous rounds, gram for posting videos of her “I was blocked on Instagram while Poland’s Patryk Dobek but he could not eat signif - beating Belarusian victorious 100 and 200 metres for posting the races of the took the bronze in 1:45.39. icantly into his team-mate’s Ali Shabanau 11-0 be- races. Olympic (sic) because I did Korir succeeds fellow Ken- lead but the 31-year-old looked Nurislam Sanayev fore following up with a com- The Jamaican sprinter de- not own the right to do so. So yan and two-time champion delighted to have won a med- of Kazakhstan in manding 12-2 victory over San fended her Olympic titles from see y’all in 2 days,” the sprinter David Rudisha, who was un- al after finishing fifth behind action against Marino’s Myles Amine. the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olym- wrote on Twitter. able to defend his title due to Rudisha in 2016 Olympic final. Ravi Kumar of India.