Sixth gold for Felix as US win 4x400m gold

I’ve gained enormous respect for triathletes after five years in eastern Idaho, and Jorgensen’s gold sounded like a fairytale ending to a win-filled couple of years. In 2012, Jorgensen suffered a flat tire and finished 38th, but came back with a vengeance to win in Rio.

“It’s fantastic”, Gardner said of winning her first Olympic gold medal.

Matthew Centrowitz took the lead in the 1,500-meter race with two laps remaining and held off a late charge from the field to capture gold. She’s a champion in distances from 100 to 400 meters.

#FreeChelimo turns to #ChelimoSilver: Paul Chelimo had a hell of a half hour last night.

Still, the US added to their haul. He became a citizen in 2014 and now serves as a Water Treatment Specialist. Just like in many other areas, the United States believes it can make all the rules and interpret them for its own benefit. And while he may not close things out with 23 golds, the number Michael Phelps left Rio with earlier this week, it’s hard to argue there is anybody more successful or electric – or important to his sport, and the Olympics themselves.

Counting all the preliminaries, finals and his approximately nine-second blast down the stretch in Friday’s last race, Bolt has spent 325 seconds – a tad less than 5 1/2 minutes – running on the track at the Olympics since he made his debut in Beijing eight years ago. Success has to begin somewhere. That promoted Canada to the bronze medal. This is the second-highest medal total for an American diver, trailing only Greg Louganis. He also has a new book out.

“It’s an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates”, Biles said in a statement.

And the biggest surprise came in the men’s 1,500 meters, where Matt Centrowitz shocked the field in a slow race and became the first American to win a gold in the “metric mile” since the 1908 Olympics.

Felix (USC 2008) ran the final leg for USA’s 4x400m relay which won the gold medal with a time of 3:19.06, 1.28 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher Brazil (3:20.34) and 6.82 seconds in front of the bronze medalist Great Britain (3:25.88). We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. The dominant woman in her division, the 21-year-old hasn’t lost a fight since the London Games, winning two world championships and a Pan-Am Games title. Over on the volleyball court, the United States defeated the Netherlands for bronze.

American J’den Michael Tbory Cox dominated Cuba’s Reineris Salas Perez to win a bronze medal in a women’s 86 kg wrestling match.

Jamaica (41.36) finished in silver and Great Britain (41.77) in bronze. Stevenson’s silver is the highest medal the US has won in men’s boxing in 12 years.

I’ve covered track in eastern Idaho long enough to have met a good number of local high school athletes who admire Centrowitz, some of have attended his OR track camps. Given that Brazil is the most soccer-mad nation in the world, the blowout loss was a national shame.

NPR reports that at the Beijing 2008 Summer Games, the team dropped the baton and didn’t reach the final; the squad’s silver medal finish in the London 2012 Olympics was voided a year ago over the doping suspensions (both Gay and Gatlin); and Gay was disqualified in 2009 for a bad handoff.