The Paris 2024 Olympics have come to an in depth, and most of us are already beginning to really feel the post-Video games blues. We’re right here to assist beat your Olympic withdrawal by reflecting on the wild experience of the previous two weeks. The athletics aspect of the video games was punctuated with highs and lows, with some athletes going residence victorious and others broken-hearted, and no scarcity of drama and hilarity all through. Listed here are only a few of the various stand-out moments.
The lows
Damian Warner DNFs the decathlon
Canada’s Warner began Day 2 of the decathlon on the 2024 Paris Olympics by recording spectacular performances within the 110m hurdles and discus throw. Nonetheless, the eighth occasion, the pole vault, proved to be Warner’s undoing as he recorded no clearances at his entry mark of 4.60 metres. Consequently, Warner earned no factors for the pole vault, successfully ending his Olympic medal hopes, and the previous Olympic champion opted to take a DNF (didn’t end).
Brutal falls by Ahmed and Girma
Within the 5,000m closing, Canada’s Moh Ahmed suffered a extreme fall within the closing metres of the race whereas in rivalry for a high end in his warmth, inflicting him to overlook a spot within the closing. One factor the autumn didn’t demolish? Ahmed’s constructive perspective and talent to conduct himself with grit and beauty. Ahmed’s was removed from the one fall—a dangerously arduous tumble within the 3,000m steeple closing noticed Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma, the three,000m world file holder, endure a severe harm. Girma was carried off in a stretcher and transported to the hospital, the place he remained for a minimum of one evening.
🔴The #WORLDRECORD holder within the 3,000m steeplechase, Lameha Girma (Ethiopia), misplaced consciousness in the course of the #Olympic2024 closing. He hit a barrier together with his foot, fell flat on the observe and was unable to rise up. pic.twitter.com/CXkOdXKFZA
— Information.Az (@news_az) August 8, 2024
Andre De Grasse’s private coach loses his accreditation over intercourse abuse allegations
The day after the 100m closing (which was received by Noah Lyles, and which De Grasse didn’t qualify for), British media reported that De Grasse’s private coach, Rana Reider, had had his accreditation revoked by the Canadian Olympic Committee over allegations of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and verbal harassment in lawsuits by three of Reider’s former athletes. Reider had served a one-year probation (ending in Might 2024) imposed by the U.S. Middle for Protected Sport after admitting to a earlier, consensual relationship with an 18-year-old athlete. (De Grasse had initially switched coaches in 2022, however returned to Reider earlier this yr.)
An oblivious cameraman walks into racers
It was a second that was beautiful in its bizarreness—two-thirds of the way in which by the second of two first-round heads within the males’s 5,000m race, whereas filming the ladies’s javelin occasion, a cameraman outfitted with a big digital camera rig strolled proper by the second lane of the observe, stopping simply in need of lane one. Two runners, together with Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, needed to run round him to keep away from a collision. .
As if the 5000m heats weren’t chaotic sufficient this morning at #Paris2024…
A cameraman was caught on the observe and nearly brought on extra casualties as athletes needed to run round him 😳 pic.twitter.com/60OwRBfV2K
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) August 7, 2024
The highs
Canadian males’s 4×100 group pace to gold
The Canadian males’s 4x100m relay group delivered a stunning efficiency, clinching our first observe medal of the Paris Olympics. The dynamic quartet—Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse—handed the baton across the observe with precision and pace, crossing the end line in a season’s greatest 37.50 seconds. De Grasse anchored the group together with his trademark aptitude, sealing the victory in fashion and proving as soon as once more that Canada’s relay group is a drive to be reckoned with.
Marco Arop’s silver medal within the 800m
We knew Arop must run a PB to medal within the 800m… however he didn’t win final yr’s world championships for nothing, and he didn’t allow us to down. Arop ran an ideal race–affected person, regular and nearly indomitable–and got here inside a hair of successful the gold medal, crossing the road in 1:41.20 in a photo-finish. (Kudos to Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi, who front-ran all the way in which to gold, with 1:41.19 on the tender age of 20.)
Pole-vaulter Alysha Newman‘s celebration
Canada’s Newman spiced up the athletics world, not simply together with her national-record-setting and bronze-medal-winning vault, however with a cheeky twerk that left the group—and social media—buzzing. Hey, Newman earned the best to rejoice in her personal distinctive means—American sprinter Noah Lyles does it, so why can’t everybody else?
no means she received a medal and instantly began twerking 😭 pic.twitter.com/PfN7Dga97k
— juju 💰 (@ayeejuju) August 9, 2024
Botswana’s Letsile Tegobo unseats American dash celebrity Noah Lyles in 200m closing
In an exhilarating showdown, 21-year-old Tebogo shocked the sprinting world by capturing the 200m gold in a speedy 19.46 seconds, unseating favourite-to-win Lyles. Tebogo not solely set a private greatest but additionally set a brand new African file. Lyles was left to accept third place, with compatriot Kenny Bednarek taking silver. Lyles later introduced that he was sick, and his true followers could also be devastated, however maybe even the flashiest of champions profit from a bit of humble pie.
Canadians turn out to be hammer throw champions of the world
Canada is formally one of the best hammer-throwing nation on this planet. Camryn Rogers received Canada’s second gold medal within the hammer throw on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games with a throw of 76.97 metres. Earlier within the week, fellow Canuck Ethan Katzberg blew the competitors away within the males’s occasion when he threw 84.12 metres within the first spherical to win.
Each Katzberg and Rogers now share the title of Olympic and world champion, showcasing Canada’s energy as a hammer-throwing nation.
Dutch distance star Sifan Hassan (want we are saying extra?)
On the ultimate day of the video games, Hassan made historical past within the ladies’s marathon, dashing to gold and setting a brand new Olympic file of two:22:55. That is Hassan’s third medal at these Video games, including to the 2 bronze medals she received within the ladies’s 5,000m and 10,000m. Hassan was the one athlete within the discipline who had already raced a complete of 20 kilometres earlier than Sunday’s marathon, however that didn’t appear to be an issue as she sprinted previous world file holder Tigst Assefa for an additional breathtaking win.
Whilst you could not have chosen the identical standout highs and lows as us, we will in all probability all agree that the Paris 2024 Olympics was one for the historical past books—and we’re already counting right down to L.A.
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