Athletics Rio 200 meters women
Did not reach the final. The Russian athlete completed the fight at an altitude of 5.45, failing to take 5.60. In the season, Ilya had the best result of 5.70, but he was shown indoors. If he had taken this height in London, he would have been in the finals, but alas, it did not work out. Ilya’s attempts were not shown during the broadcast, so commenting on something is extremely difficult.
Marathon (men)
Kenyan Joffrey Kipkorir Kirui won the race at the World Athletics Championships with a score of 2: 08.27. A successful attack was launched by his compatriot, Gideon Kipketer, but then, when Kirui stepped forward, Kipketer was unable to maintain this pace and began to lag behind. As a result, by the thirty kilometer a pair of leaders took shape - the Ethiopian Tola and Kirui, who won about 20 seconds with their pursuers. Tola made an attempt to attack, and had an advantage of about 20 meters, but could not hold him, and besides, he could not take water a couple of times at the hydration point. As a result, Tola was unable to respond to Kirui's decisive attack, and on the last lap the Kenyan seized the lead. At the last meters of the distance, the Tanzanian Alphonse Felix Simbu began to noticeably approach the second Tolya, but did not manage to catch up with the Ethiopian, and remained the third. Silver and bronze were separated for three seconds, 2: 09.48 for Tola and 2: 09.51 for Simbu.
110 meters with barriers
Preliminary runs ended with a drama. One of Sergey Shubenkov’s main rivals, Jamaican sprinter Ronald Levy was injured and dropped out of the fight. At the exit from the first barrier, Levy caught his hand on Chinese Xie Wenjun, who fled to his left. As a result, the Chinese pulled the left side of Levi's body, he lost his balance, unsuccessfully stepped off the barrier, completely collapsed technically, was injured (apparently an ankle dislocation) and stepped out of the race.
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In the semifinal race, the Belarusian athlete made a mistake on one of the barriers and showed a time of 13.66 seconds, taking 8th place among 8 participants. Brianna Rollins from the USA won the first semifinal - 12.47 sec. In addition to the American, in the same race with the Belarusian, Tiffany Porter and Cindy Rolder from Germany went to the treadmill - both athletes, as well as Alina Talai, are among the top ten in the current season and showed good results. As a result, the second ticket to the finals was received by the representative of the Bahamas Pedria Seymour - 12.63 seconds. Also, from the first race to the decisive round, Tiffany Porter came out - 12.82 seconds. and Cindy Rolder - 12.69 sec.
In such a renowned company, the Belarusian was not able to run 100 m with barriers without errors and completed her performance at the Games. At the last 2012 Olympics in London, she also completed her performance at the semifinal stage. During 2016, Alina Talai was preparing hard for the main starts of the four-year period and set a national record - 12.63 seconds. The result was shown in June at an international tournament in Regensburg, Germany.
In total, three semi-final races at this sprint distance took place at the Olympic stadium in Rio. Of each group, two of the best runners reached the finals, two more athletes got the right to compete in the top eight of the best time among the other participants. Final race at a distance of 100 m with barriers will be held today at 04.55.
Natalya MARIANCHIK
from the olympic park
BOLT COMES TO CHANGE PELPS
22-time Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps finishes his performances in the pool and as if passes the baton to another brightest star of these Games, Usain Bolt. Let Bolt never catch up with Phelps in the number of Olympic victories. But his goal in Rio - three gold and nine champion titles in total, is no less admiring. Not a single person in history has yet won the 100 and 200 m runs, together with the relay, at three Olympics in a row. For track and field athletics drowning in doping and political scandals, Bolt is like a lifeline, a symbol of the last decade.
Interestingly, in the eight years since Bolt’s first Olympic victories in the world track and field athletics, no one has appeared, not even close to him in terms of talent. Usain is already 29, he set his last world record already in 2009, at the World Championships in Berlin. But over all these years, Bolt lost only one title - the world champion in the hundred-meter in Daegu 2011. And even then, he lost not in the full-time fight, but because of a stupid false start.
Bolt is becoming more and more traumatized, shocking less and less, forgetting his trademark folly and gradually turning into a boring politically correct European. But the world even loves such a Bolt madly. Perhaps he would like to finish for a long time, but no one would just let him go. Talk about a possible career in long jump or 400m running for Bolt is a thing of the past. A year ago, he promised that he would leave the sport immediately after the Games in Rio. But already managed to change his mind.
The trainer says that I can run before the 2020 Games in Tokyo, - said Bolt on the eve of its entry into the Olympic arena. - I'm going to speak at the 2017 World Cup in London, but we'll see. In any case, I want to leave at the peak and will not wait until the young begin to beat me.
In recent years, to get rid of the constant pressure from rivals, Bolt speaks little. And at those stages of the “Diamond League”, where it is impossible not to appear in accordance with the contract, his opponents are carefully selected in such a way that the victory takes place. This year, Bolt refused to speak at the Jamaican championship, citing a hip injury. The last time he ran before the Rio in the Diamond League in London, where he won the 200-meter with a result of 19.89.
Despite the fact that Bolt's result is gorgeous in itself, it is not the best in the world at the moment. 400-meter Olympic champion American Lashon Merritt At their national selection, a 200-meter race in 19.74. At 100 meters, Bolt is also not in the world leaders: another American has the best result Justin Gatlin (9.80), and Bolt at the very beginning of the season in Jamaica ran eight hundredths slower.
Characteristically, both Merritt and Gatlin have had doping disqualifications in the past. There is a great temptation to hit into rhetoric like "good" Bolt against the "bad guys". But where is Usain - there is first of all sport, and then everything else, remember?
BOLT IN YOUR HEMISPHERE
The first round of the tournament in the Olympic hundred-meter race is an absolutely passing stage for all the favorites. Here you can play with your muscles and make your competitors nervous, but no more. All strong sprinters are scattered in different races, and in order not to reach the semifinals, they need to literally walk.
It is interesting that no matter how much Bolt performs at the World Championships and Olympics, in the first round he is always placed in one of the last races. The degree of tension even at this passing stage needs to be raised gradually. And if at the beginning of the morning session, even despite the finals in discus throwing and an exciting seven-team tournament, the stands are half empty, there are almost no empty seats by the time Usain starts. Almost everyone has a phone or tablet in their hands. By the number of shots of himself per unit time, Bolt has long become the champion of all time.
Bolt has something to fight for: Gatlin just won his race with a result of 10.01, while not straining at all. It is simply not solid for Usain to be much worse, especially since experts will analyze his every step before the Sunday finals under a microscope.
Eventually, Bolt won with the fourth time of the day - 10.07. There is no particular lightness in his run, and it is hard to believe that at one time Usain at these stages defeated his rivals in a literal sense a tram stop. In the mixed zone Bolt frowned:
For a long time I did not have to run so early in the morning, I did not quite wake up. Unhappy with my run, but I hope everything will be fine tomorrow.
The stands were empty for five minutes after the end of Usain. There are a lot of fans from Jamaica, in branded colorful dresses and wigs. In one girl, even a baby is attached to the body with a sling in the colors of the national flag. In spite of everything, Bolt must, is simply obliged to win here. If he managed to do it a year ago at the World Championships in Beijing, where few people believed in his chances against Gatlin, his own hemisphere should bring luck to Usain.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Olympic Games 2016. Athletics. August 13th.
Men 100 m. Qualification. The best race results. 1. Gatlin (USA) - 10.01. 2. Meite (Côte d'Ivoire) - 10.03. 3. de Grasse (Canada) - 10.04. 4. The bolt (Jamaica) - 10.07. 5. Xie Zhenye (China) - 10.08. 6. Blake (Jamaica) - 10.11. 7. Fisher (Bahrain) - 10.12. 8. Ashmid (Jamaica), Bromell (USA), C. Brown (Bahrain), Cambridge (Japan), Uja (Great Britain) - 10.13.
