From world data to dramatic head-to-heads and sensible breakthroughs, we take a look at the highest moments from the 2024 Video games
McLaughlin-Levrone stands alone
Monitor followers had been licking their lips in anticipation on the prospect of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone going up towards European record-holder Femke Bol within the ladies’s 400m hurdles. However it was a no contest ultimately because the American flew to a world report of fifty.37 as Bol completed a disillusioned third in 52.15 behind one other American, Anna Cockrell. Learn extra right here.
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Duplantis reigns supreme
There are robust favourites for occasions after which there are close to certainties. Mondo Duplantis fell into that class in Paris and, after dispatching of his rivals, the Swedish pole vaulter went on to clear a world report of 6.25m. Learn extra right here.
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Sifan Hassan completes ‘Zatopek treble’
After profitable bronze within the 5000m and 10,000m, Sifan Hassan went into the marathon on the ultimate day of the Video games asking herself as standard “why am I doing this?” In a high-quality dust-up between lots of the world’s prime marathon runners, although, she noticed off the problem of world record-holder Tigist Assefa and Hellen Obiri to take gold in 2:22:55. Learn extra right here.
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Cole Hocker shocker
In probably the most anticipated occasion of the athletics programme, all eyes had been on Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh Kerr. But after Ingebrigtsen had set off at world report tempo it was Cole Hocker who stormed by way of within the residence straight to take a shock gold in 3:27.65 from Kerr and Yared Nuguse with Ingebrigtsen out of the medals. Learn extra right here.
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Thiam vs KJT
Nafi Thiam gained her third Olympic gold in Paris and to take action she needed to battle off the problem of world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson within the heptathlon. It was an exhilarating competitors which went all the way down to the wire because the Belgian struck gold with 6880 factors. Learn extra right here.
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Fingers of Stona
When world record-holder Mykolas Alekna threw an Olympic report of 69.97m within the second spherical of the discus, he regarded unbeatable. However in one of many largest upsets of the Video games, Rojé Stona, a little-known Jamaican who had been having trials for NFL within the run-up to the Video games, beat that mark with 70.00m. “I’ll should rethink my future now,” he stated on his NFL vs athletics dilemma. Learn extra right here.
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Golden lady Gabby
Gabby Thomas was probably the most profitable athlete in Paris with three gold medals. Two of these got here in relays with the US crew however her particular person second was within the 200m when she beat 100m champion Julien Alfred in fashion in 21.83. Learn extra right here.
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Keely delivers
Britain’s solely gold of the athletics programme got here within the ladies’s 800m. Keely Hodgkinson was favorite however nonetheless needed to do the job towards a troublesome area that included world champion Mary Moraa. After going by way of the primary lap two seconds slower than she deliberate, the 22-year-old took the race by the scruff of the neck and blasted residence in 1:56.72. Learn extra right here.
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Kipyegon scores a hat-trick
Everybody was speaking about Eliud Kipchoge going for a 3rd Olympic marathon crown however a fellow Kenyan Religion Kipyegon was making an attempt to win her third consecutive 1500m title and she or he nailed it with an Olympic report of three:51.29. Scorching on her heels, Jess Hull took silver for Australia with Georgia Bell, one of many revelations of the 12 months, breaking the British report with 3:52.61 for bronze. Learn extra right here.
Beatrice Chebet beats Nadia Battocletti (Getty)
Beatrice Chebet on the double
After profitable a controversial 5000m ultimate that noticed Gudaf Tsegay tangling with Religion Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet returned to out-sprint Nadia Battocletti to 10,000m gold. After profitable her second world cross-country title this 12 months, Chebet is arguably the world’s No.1 feminine distance runner proper now and her marathon debut might be much-anticipated. Learn extra right here.
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