News: 2024 Olympics thread

She’s unbelievable… top 20 (twenty!) fastest times in freestyle 1500m were all hers

We are cheering for Carson Foster, he came through the rank of our local swimming club (where my daughter also belongs!) We had the watching party two days ago when he was part of the USA relay team, that finished second to GBR.

 

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Sifan Hassan will compete on the track for the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, and will run the marathon on the road. Hassan doesn't run the 1,500 meters.

This is insane, but if someone can do this, she's the only one.
If she manages triple gold (even triple medals already is mind blowing), she truly is the zenith of the Olympics.

 

It's not for nothing (apart from the doping suspicions) that it's 48 years since it's being tried again.

 

So Zapotek is the one she really is mirroring when she pulls it off.
These two examples in 72 years show how extraordinary it is to even try it.

 

What an epic race by the Dutch anchor Femke Bol on the 4x400m relay! Left the US team in the dust. I want to see her racing Van der Ven

 

Incredible speed Bol.
Amazing race.

 

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Together with Sifan Hassan they are the darlings of the Dutch.
Both incredible likable persons.

 

"Bol measured her effort to perfection, tracking the leaders before making her final push for gold as the crowd roared her on, one year after her late fall cost her nation the world mixed relay title in Budapest."
She's whipping up expectations of the athletics watching fans.

 

https://athleticsweekly.com/event-r...-mixed-relay-gold-for-netherlands-1039990604/

A total of 32 sprinters from eight teams lined up for an event that made its Olympic debut in Tokyo three years ago. But afterwards everyone was talking about just one athlete.
The mouth waters at the prospect of a showdown with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in her specialist 400m hurdles event later in these Games.

The world of athletics is mesmerized by the prospect of the showdown.

 

I thought that's impossible, what you posted. So I checked and coming back I see you amended it.

 

An Irish bashing the way Americans look at Femke Bol:

 

https://www.mundodeportivo.com/jueg...ol-da-oro-paises-bajos-relevo-descomunal.html
Xavier Gonzálvez-amat Paris Updated on 03/08/2024 21:26 CEST The second day of athletics at the Paris 2024 Games left one of the most impressive images, the work of the Dutchwoman Femke Bol (24 years old), who received the last post of the mixed 4x400m relay in fourth position and managed to come back to victory in a single lap with 3'07"47, a new European record. Bol, a specialist in the 400 hurdles, was able to run in 47"93 to give her team the victory and also the European record. The other runner in the Dutch relay, Lieke Klaver, made her post in 49"30, more than a second behind her compatriot. When she received the baton from Isaya Klein Ikkink, it seemed very difficult to catch the American Kaylyn Brown who was in the lead, but it seemed more viable to hunt down bronze.
The surprise came when Femke was gaining meters on her rivals in an extraordinary way. Everyone expected a great performance from the second best hurdler in the 400 in history, but what she experienced in Saint-Denis exceeded all predictions. Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver and Isaya Klein Ikkink, her relay teammates, couldn't believe it when they saw her cross the finish line in first position. They ran to hug her and thank her for her last prodigious post that gave them a dream gold.

 

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South Americans were estatic about Femke's run.

They were left off the podium, but they made an epic comeback to take gold at the Olympic Games: "The best in history"
Infobae|1 day ago
The Dutch team achieved a triumph with a taste of feat in the mixed 4x400 meters relay event thanks to an outstanding performance by Femke Bol in the final stretch

The incredible comeback in the athletics event in JJ. OO.; Fans can't believe it
Pulzo|1 day ago
Femke Bol makes Olympic history and gives gold medal to the Netherlands in athletics in the mixed 4x400-meter relay: here, video of the event

Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Femke Bol flew, took an impossible difference and gave the Netherlands a gold that will go down in history
Yahoo News in Spanish|1 day ago
The last round: that image is the one that is immortalized in history. Because the sprinter was fourth just over 100 meters from the finish line and after almost three minutes of team running. Pa

 

The athletics afficionades most likely do, but the casual Olympics watching Americans fans ...I doubt it.
Thinking about it I guess the same applies to Dutch fans.
Those in Athletics do know who McLaughlin-Levrone is, but I doubt the majority of the rest of Dutch fans do.