Olympics 2016: Shaunae Miller dives over 400m finish line for gold

Bahrain’s Ruth Jebet won the gold medal in 8:59.75, followed by Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi.

“My mind just went blank”, Miller, a former track star at the University of Georgia, said of her unorthodox finish. “I have cuts and bruises, a few burns, but, hey, I got a medal out of it”.

Instead of running until after the finish line, she actually dove. Yes, yes it is.in order to win gold.

”This is the moment I have been waiting for”, Miller said.

It was a sensational finish that showed just how much Shaunae Miller, from the Bahamas, wanted to win gold in the women’s 400m final in Rio.

“It is something that I’m definitely very, very proud of”, she said.

And Miller says it was while she was laid out on the track that a shout from her mother alerted her to her Olympic triumph. “But I knew that it was his moment and he needed to be on camera and experience it for himself”. “It’s a little bittersweet now”, the L.A. native told Us Weekly and other reporters of the historic but heartbreaking finish.

Miller won the 2014 NCAA indoor title in the 400 and was second at the national outdoor meet that year. At that point Miller threw herself over the line as Felix closed in.

Felix, the reigning world 400m champion, had been close to tears as she spoke with reporters after the race in what may be her fourth and final Olympics.

Miller competed in London in 2012 but did not finish the race, but four years on she finished in style to upset the American whose silver medal was her seventh overall in four Olympic campaigns.

The 30-year-old Californian’s silver medal was, though, her seventh in four Games, making her the most decorated U.S. female track and field athlete at the Olympics by bettering Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s tally of six. This was the year Felix hoped to win one of the Summer Olympics’ most prestigious double events in track and field – the 200 and 400 meters.