Sha’Carri Richardson secured her first Olympic gold medal after a thundering anchor leg within the girls’s 4×100 relay on Friday.
The Individuals – Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry – braved a moist monitor in wet situations to win the staff’s twelfth Olympic medal within the occasion. They did it in a time of 41.78 seconds – a season-best.
Thomas ran the third leg and received her second gold medal within the Video games. Her first gold was within the 200-meter on Tuesday.
When Thomas handed off to Richardson, the U.S. was in third place.
Richardson needed to reel in Britian’s Daryll Neita and Germany’s Rebekka Haase, and when she did, she flashed a glance to her proper — and backward — that stated ″you are not catching me.”
She sprinted eight extra steps down the monitor, and on her ninth, lifted her left leg excessive and stomped it on the opposite facet of the end line, then let loose a scream.
It marked a candy near the Olympics for Richardson, who got here into the Olympics as a favourite however surprisingly fell to Julien Alfred of St. Lucia within the 100-meter race.
Nice Britain and Germany got here in second and third respectively.
American males disqualified in 4×100 relay
As the ladies have been celebrating their gold medal, the U.S. males’s staff prolonged its drought to twenty years with no medal within the Olympic 4×100 relay. They have been disqualified for an unlawful cross after Christan Coleman crashed into teammate Kenny Bednarek whereas making the change between the primary and second legs.
Andre De Grasse put a brilliant mark on an in any other case disappointing Olympics by anchoring Canada to gold in a time of 37.50 seconds. It was the primary medal in Paris for De Grasse, however his seventh general. South Africa completed second and Britain third.
Earlier than the race, even with out Noah Lyles, who was out of the lineup attributable to COVID, it appeared like America’s race to lose. They’ve a knack for doing simply that. The one time the U.S. has captured a medal over the past 20 years was in 2012, however that received stripped for a doping violation.
