After 10 days of observe and area on the Stade de France, the host nation, France, has lastly gained a medal in athletics. Dash hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela gained silver within the girls’s 100m hurdles with a time of 12.34 seconds—simply one-hundredth of a second behind American Masai Russell, who took gold with a time of 12.33 seconds.
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C’EST FOU ! LA PREMIÈRE MÉDAILLE EN ATHLÉTISME EST POUR CYRÉNA SAMBA-MAYELA ✨#AllezLesBleus #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/JLFb9QHRz1
— Equipe France (@EquipeFRA) August 10, 2024
In an exciting end, solely three-hundredths of a second separated gold from bronze within the girls’s 100m hurdles closing. Defending Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico claimed the bronze with a time of 12.36 seconds.
It was a packed home on the Stade de France to observe Samba-Mayela within the hurdles closing, even French president Emmanuel Macron was in the home.
Russell’s gold was Crew USA’s eleventh in observe and area at these Paris Olympics.
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