Hosts run
riot , the pool finishes with a golden swansong , a photo finish , gearing up
for a historical sprint.
Great
Britain had their single best day of competition in the Olympics in over a
hundred years as they snapped up 6 gold medals. 3 of these came the first major
athletic day with Jessica Ennis winning the heptathlon , Mo Farah breaking the African
dominance in the 10,000 m and Greg Rutherford leaping8.31 m to claim the
coveted long jump gold. The Brits also won golds in their now patented rowing
and track cycling events to comfortably sit in 3rd position in the
overall medal tally. Jamaica meanwhile finally flexed their athletics muscles
as Shelly Anne Fraser price won a thrilling women’s 100 m ahead of Carmelita
Jeter of the US.
The swimming
competition came to an end amidst a tumult of records with dutch golden girl
Kromowidjojo adding the 50 m freestyle to complete the sprint double in an Olympic
record time while Sun Yang of chine thrashed his own world record in the 1500 m
freestyle. The US dominance in the pool was underlined yet again as they took
home both medley relays with the ladies setting a new world record. Yeah, I
have to talk about him one final time – Michael Phelps called time (or so we
expect) on a “..........” (use your own choice of superlative) career swimming
an outstanding butterfly leg in the relay to comfortably place in Americans in
the lead , which was comfortably anchored home by 100 m champ, Nathan Adrian.
Halfway through the games (which Ryan Lochte famously claimed would be his)
Michael Phelps sat alone atop the individual medal tally with 4 gold and 2
silver medals. Teenage sensation Missy Franklin , can probably lay the best
claim to have inherited the swimming monarchy from Phelps as she finished with
a fabulous 4 gold medals (and she’s 16 years old with the world at her feet).
Take one final look at him
Event of
the day : The women’s triathalon – after a 1500 m swim, 40 odd km of bicycle racing,
and a 10 km run, the gold medal came down to a photo finish as Switzerland’s
Nicola Spirig and Sweden’s Lisa Norden were awarded the same time in the
closest finish in Olympic history. The Swiss girl won the gold by the
proverbial hair’s breadth – and yesterday we were gawking at how close the
Federer –Del Potro match was!
The Most
Anticipated Event of the Games : Aye , Michael Phelps was probably the most
celebrated athlete of these games – but nothing beats today’s men’s 100 m event
, either in terms of line-up or sense of history. With Bolt, Blake , Powell ,
Gay, Gatlin and Johnson all easing to wins in their individual heats with
consummate ease , the blue riband men’s even promises to be one for the ages. Will
we see the first ever sub 9.5 s time ????
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