Final day of track and field events bid farewell to Milton Leet, three gold medals and a curious turnaround for the U.S.

Directly from Stade de France, the closing event of athletics at the Paris-2024 Olympic Games in France, the US was crowned with a double gold medal in the men’s and women’s 4x400m relays, in addition to the women’s 100m hurdles. In the high jump, the U.S. could have shared gold with New Zealand, but the American refused to try and break the tie, winning silver without clearing the bar. Watch all the finale this Saturday (10) Mitten Light leaves the stories to take care of his family.

In Paris the top athletics champions were USA with 14 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze for a total of 34, followed by Kenya with 4 gold and Canada with 3 gold medals to complete the informal podium. The last five medals were collected on the last day of the tournament, three gold, one silver and one bronze.

Milton Light, responsible for announcing the athletic session this Saturday (10), announced his departure from the Globo team after 19 years, described for eight Olympics, and the professional reports that he made this decision in February and that he will focus on care. of his family. Milton will be missed in Brazilian sports broadcasting and I hope to see him on the small screen from time to time to entertain us with his talent and wit.

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Milton Light announced on air that he was leaving Globo Channels after 19 years, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.

Best of luck for the next phase of life, Milton#Paris2024

— Surto Olímpico (@SurtoOlimpico) August 10, 2024

The United States won both races this Saturday (10), with Olympic record-breaking double honors in the men’s 4x400m and 400m hurdles as champion Roy Benjamin, Christopher Bailey, Vernom Norwood and Bryce Dedman. He won the race with a time of 2:54.43. With the runner-up and best African time (2:54.53), Botswana continues to surprise in Paris, leading until the first change, 0.10 seconds behind the big favourites. With the bronze, Great Britain led the second period of the race, running to a new European record of 2:55.83.

In the women’s 4x400m, women’s 400m hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Veron and runners Shameer Little, Gabrielle Thomas and Alexis Holmes won in a North American record time of 3:15.27. More than 4 seconds behind, the Netherlands, home to the legendary Femke Pol, finished the race in 3:19.27 seconds to win the silver medal, while Great Britain repeated the men’s third place to take the bronze.

The Americans added to their gold collection with a win in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, where sprinter Masai Russell clocked 12.33, 0.07 seconds off the Olympic record. French Syrina Champa-Mayela (+0.01s) and Puerto Rican Jasmin Camacho-Quinn (+0.02s) reached historic finals in the race. The battle for fourth and fifth place led to thousands of places, with Dutch Nadine Visser 0.003 ahead of American Grace Stark.

Photo: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Two Kenyan wins were also recorded in the longer races, in the men’s 800m, with Emmanuel Wanyoni setting a personal best time of 1:41.19 and Canadian, 0.01 seconds ahead of new North American record holder Marco Arop (1:41.20). The lowest place on the podium went to Algerian Djmael Sedjati (1:41.50). In the women’s 1,500m, Faith Gibikon won Kenya’s second gold, the athlete setting a new Olympic mark of 3:51.29, 1 second ahead of her Australian rival Jessica Hull (3:52.56). Completing the podium was Breton’s Georgia Bell, who won her country’s third bronze in 3:52.61, a new national record.

Two events did not feature the US or Kenya as champions, but runners-up. In the men’s high jump, Australian Hamish Kerr and American Shelby McEwen tied on all counts after failing at 2.38m (Kerr’s sea record and McEwen’s personal best). The Australian jumper was offered a share of the gold, which has happened on other occasions, but the American athlete refused, leading both to jump 2.34m, which was less than they had previously jumped. Shelby, who didn’t want to share the honor, won the silver, jumping over Hamish’s bat. Bahrain’s Mudaz Essa Barshim won bronze with a throw of 2.34m.

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In the high jump, American Shelby McEwen tied with New Zealander Hamish Kerr.

McEwen was offered to share the gold, which he refused

Summary: Kerr cleared 2.34m, McEwen took the gold and lost the silver to the American 🤷#Paris2024

— Surto Olímpico (@SurtoOlimpico) August 10, 2024

Kenya’s runner-up in the men’s 5,000, Norwegian Jakob Ingabritsen, started the race very conservatively and did not enter the top-5, and in the final two thousand meters, he overtook his rivals to win the title. :13.66 Kenyan Ronald Kwemoi won silver for the African continent, the athlete was not in the top ten until the final thousand meters when he started his pace and finished the race in second place with a time of 13:15.04. USA’s Fisher Grant took bronze in 13:15.13 seconds.

Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi (65.80m) was crowned the gold medalist in the women’s javelin, with South Africa’s Jo-Anne van Dyk (63.93m) winning the title at her first attempt in the only event without two of the sport’s biggest protagonists. ) won silver and Nikola Okrotnikova (63.68m) from Czech Republic won bronze.