But all things being equal, they overcame. Like many other countries, the Jamaicans experienced their fair share of challenges at the Olympic Games. A blessed and highly favoured nation among countries, states, and continents of the world. As many marvel at the untapped achievements of the tiny Caribbean Island, Jamaicans continue to accredit their win to the creator. This time, at the 2020 Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan (July to August 2021), the Jamaican Olympic team secured nine medals (4 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze) during 16 days of incredible competition.įor years, Jamaicans have performed impressively well and continue to demonstrate a unique and unshowy ability in sports, music, arts, and academia, sparking the curiosity of historians and researchers around the world. "I was dreaming of becoming the queen of the hammer throw.Once again, the ‘little but tallawah’ Caribbean nation dominated in spirit and performance. The 35-year-old Pole, who won golds in the 20 Games in London and Rio, succeeded where Valerie Adams (shot put), Sandra Perkovic (discus) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (100m) had fallen short at these Games.
Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk became the first female athlete to win the same track and field event three times with victory in the hammer. The field event fraternity would not permit the track glamour brigade to have all the headlines. The Swedish star went devilishly close in two of his three attempts at beating his own world record of 6.18m. However, there was more drama than during the actual competition after he had secured the gold. "I knew this was my last chance and that I had to do it, and I knew I had more in me than 6.95," Mihambo told AFP.Īrmand Duplantis won the men's pole vault with a best mark of 6.02m. Mihambo was lying in the bronze medal position ahead of her final jump, but hammered down the runway to register a season-best of 7.00 metres and emerge victorious. German long jumper Malaika Mihambo prevailed in a classic duel with 2012 gold medallist and four-time world champion Brittney Reese of the United States. The field event finals also had their fair share of drama. Her fellow teenager Erriyon Knighton qualified for Wednesday's men's 200m final - the youngest finalist since fellow 17-year-old Ade Mafe of Britain in 1984. "It's an accomplishment that I wanted off my list." "I wasn't really putting gold on that, but as it got closer to the final today, I was like, 'Yeah, we want gold'," she said. The USA may have struggled to translate finalists into gold over the opening five days of track and field, but two of their next generation showed there is plenty of talent on the way up.Īthing Mu, 19, was an impressive winner of the women's 800 metres - the first American to do so since Madeline Manning in 1968. It's a new PB (personal best) and a national record. "I really had to pull it out to win the 200m. "Oh my god, it's amazing that I have ever seen this day," said 29-year-old Thompson-Herah.
Her time of 21.53sec is only slower than Florence Griffith Joyner's world record of 21.34sec set at the drug-tarnished 1988 Seoul Olympics. There were no such theatrics from Thompson-Herah, even though she ran the second fastest time in history. "I would have died for that gold medal today." "After that I just ran for my life," he said. The two-time world champion said he decided to set a furious pace from the gun in order to "stress" his rivals.
"I always say that the perfect race doesn't exist, but this is the closest I've come to a perfect race," Warholm said. The charismatic Warholm celebrated by ripping open his running vest in Superman style. His great rival, Rai Benjamin, ran the second fastest time in history (46.17sec), and Brazil's Alison dos Santos narrowly missed out ducking inside the old world record, clocking 46.72sec to take bronze. Warholm stormed home in one of the all-time great Olympic track races, setting a new mark of 45.94 seconds.
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