Veteran field athlete Cleopatra Borel finished seventh out of 12 finalists with a best heave of 18.37 metres during the final of the Women’s Shot Put event at the XXXI Olympic Games on a cool Friday night at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Flying Phillip out
Njisane Phillip enjoyed a dream start to his second Olympic campaign, clocking 9.813 seconds in the Flying 200 metres to qualify sixth fastest for the Rio 2016 men's sprint, here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday.
SUBLIME CEDENIO Lalonde Gordon also advances to 400m semis
Trinidad and Tobago's Machel Cedenio and Lalonde Gordon easily qualified for the semifinals of the Men's 400m event yesterday at the Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium, winning heat 1 and heat 4 respectively, to be two of 21 automatic qualifiers emerging from round one.
Iron Lady Cleopatra into the final
TRINIDAD and Tobago's Olympic athlete Cleopatra Borel has qualified for the final of the women's shot put in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
Last throw by Carter denies Adams third consecutive Olympic shot put gold
An American record effort from Michelle Carter with her last throw tipped the women’s shot put final on its head here tonight and denied New Zealand's Valerie Adams a third consecutive Olympic victory.
David Owen: Rio 2016 - a cautionary tale of toilet paper and unrealistic ambitions
Memo to the International Olympic Committee (IOC): if the sewers in a city are so fragile that you are frequently asked not to put toilet paper down the toilet, said city is probably not quite ready to host an Olympic Games.