Rio de Janeiro , Brazil — Usain Bolt easily captured the men’s 200m in 19.78 seconds (-0.5 m/s) and secured his eighth Olympic gold medal while staying on course for an unprecedented ‘treble triple’ in his pursuit of immortality. Bolt, who had completed a third consecutive 100m...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Usain Bolt won a third-successive Olympic 200m gold yesterday to keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented “triple triple” in Rio. The victory in his favoured event was Bolt’s 13th individual world or Olympic sprint title from a possible 14...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) – Jamaica's Elaine Thompson sealed an Olympic sprint double after scorching to victory in the women's 200m on Wednesday. Thompson, who won the 100m crown on Saturday, timed a season's best of 21.78 seconds to trump Dutch favourite Dafne Schippers, who...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Wednesday August 17, 2016 – Omar McLeod extended Jamaica’s dominance of sprint events yesterday when he clinched his country’s first ever gold medal in the Olympic Games men’s 110m hurdles. With triple Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt and newly-crowned women’s sprint champion...
Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas won a dramatic gold medal in the women's 400m final at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In a thrilling finish, Miller stumbled and then dived across the line as she edged out American world champion Allyson Felix to win in 49.44 seconds. Felix...