Dipa Karmakar’s Produnova makes India proud at Olympic Games

Dipa Karmakar finishes fourth in the Vaults final marking India’s most stupendous international achievement.

Written by Shivani Naik | Rio De Janeiro | Updated: August 15, 2016 8:13 am, http://indianexpress.com/sport...esult-score-2975774/

Dipa Karmakar attempts her vault during the Vaults final at Rio 2016 Olympics. (Source: AP)

Dipa Karmakar stopped hearts around the world as she flew in the finals of the vault at the Olympics. Fourth position might be a curse across the rest of the contingent, but this was India’s most stupendous international achievement.

Sticking her best landing on the Tsukahara routine, keeping compact her feet, she would start with a 14.866. Then, seamlessly, she would pull off the Produnova — the low landing causing some anxiety before she would achieve a 15.266. This would take her to 15.066, and second position, putting her into contention for a historic medal.

It was nerveless execution by the brave Indian and there was little to fault given her three-month preparation for the entire routine.

With Simone Biles left, Dipa was third. The stunning Cheng got the American 15.900, and the next gave her the gold. In turn, it pushed Dipa to the fourth position.

Biles scooped her third gold medal with this win. World champion Maria Paseka of Russia came second with a score of 15.966 from her two vaults, while Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber, an all-rounder and vault specialist, pipped Dipa by 0.15 of a point to take bronze.

Uzbekistan’s Oksana Chusovitina, bidding to become the oldest ever gymnast to win an Olympic medal at the age of 41, finished seventh out of the eight finalists after over-rotating on her promised Produnova. She ended with 14.933 after an unintended somersault in landing. She was 7.933 on execution, highlighting just how tough the landings tend to be.

North Korean Un Jong Hong had started with a botched second vault, but ended up with 14.900, pointing to average high scores in vault.

Canadian Shallon Olsen would hit 14.816 next, while Dipa warmed up on the sidelines.

Chinese Yuan Wang would nail the Tsukahara, for 14.866 — for the D score of 6.

But if this was uncharted territory for India, pathbreaker Dipa had forged a path. A bright blue leotard, but no longer a speck in the ocean of gymnastics.

Indians can fly too.

Karmakar country: Many Dipas of Tripura taking their own leap of faith

As Dipa Karmakar attempts her Produnova in Rio today, The Indian Express travels to Tripura, India’s gymnastics capital, to trace how it all began with a SAI centre in Patiala.

Written by Aniruddha Ghosal | Updated: August 15, 2016 12:17 am, http://indianexpress.com/sport...ights-video-2973652/

Tripura’s roll of honour

Bharat Kishore Deb Burman: Won gold at the national gymnastics championships in Bombay in 1965, Tripura’s first gold in the sport at the national level

Montu Debnath: Arjuna award winner. Won 36 gold medals at different national championships.  Won gold in ‘vaulting horse’ at Indo-Soviet cultural exchange meet held in Kazakhstan (then part of the USSR) in 1969. Was captain of the national gymnastics team

Kalpana Debnath: Arjuna Award winner and national champion. Won all the gold medals at the national gymnastics championship at Surat in 1978. Was adjudged ‘All-Round Best Woman Gymnast of India’ nine times

Bisheshwar Nandi: Five-time national champion, coach of Dipa Karmakar. Was part of the team that went to 1982 Asian Games

Balaram Shil: Currently CRPF DIG, represented India at 1982 Asian Games

Bijan Saha: National champion and part of Indian team at 1982 Asian Games

Debashish Dam Choudhury: National champion who represented India at 1982 Asian Games. He captained the national team in the 1986 Asian Games

Diptanu Banik: Gold medal and two silver medals at the Tulit Petre International Gymnastics Competition in 2001 in Hungary

With a string of medals in national competitions, Ashmita Pal, 15, is spoken of as the state’s most promising gymnast after Dipa.

Bharat Kishore Deb Burman, Dalip Singh’s protege and Tripura’s first gymnastics ‘star’.

Salam Sushila Devi with a photograph of her husband, Dalip Singh, who brought gymnastics to Tripura. Devi says before Singh fell in love with her, he fell for Tripura.

Gymnasiums such as the Vivekananda Byamagar teach poor children for free. At some centres, they also get food in the evenings, which is a big draw.

At the Khumulwng Tribal Gymnasium in West Tripura district.

With balance beams of three difficulty levels, a rope ring and a vaulting board specially brought from Delhi, the Khumulwng gymnasium is the “pride of Tripura”.

Montu Debnath, who in 1975 became India’s second gymnast to win the Arjuna award, now coaches children.

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Charter school teacher finishes Olympic journey

Troy Doris, representing his parents' home country of Guyana, finished seventh in the triple jump competition Tuesday. His best distance was 16.9 meters, less than one meter behind the gold medal-winning distance. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The Olympic journey of Troy Doris, a charter school teacher from Chicago, has come to an end.

Doris, representing his parents' home country of Guyana, finished seventh in the triple jump competition Tuesday. His best distance was 16.9 meters, less than one meter behind the gold medal-winning distance.

Maureen Kelleher of Education Post writes that Doris is a physical education teacher at Bulls College Prep, part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. Kelleher spoke to the principal at Bulls College Prep, who talked about how humble Doris is. "When I met Troy, he didn't walk in saying, 'Oh, I'm an Olympian,'" Principal Wendy Erskine said. "He made a very vague mention of it, saying, 'Oh, in my spare time I'm a triple jumper.' It took us a while to figure out he was going to trials."

Erskine added that Doris isn't just good at triple jump, he's good at teaching too. "Our 11th and 12th graders have high expectations for PE teachers. I've had students ask to be in his classroom. He's incredibly knowledgeable. ... He tries to talk with kids about the bigger picture, not just how to do an air squat."

Doris holds the Guyanese record in triple jump, thanks to a 17.18 meter jump in May.

The event was won by Christian Taylor of the United States, who jumped 17.86 meters. Will Claye of the U.S. won the silver medal and Dong Bin of China won bronze.

Jason Russell is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.

India Has a Few More Medal Hopes as Rio Olympic Games Near End

Indian badminton player P.V. Sindhu will take on Japan's Nozomi Okuhara in the semifinals of the women's singles Thursday

The summer Olympic Games in Rio are coming to an end this weekend, but India hasn’t yet fulfilled its dream of winning a medal at the multisport mega event.

That could change Thursday when Indian badminton player P.V. Sindhu, one of the country’s last remaining hopes for a medal, takes on Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in the semifinals of the women’s singles.

In a stunning performance in the quarterfinals early Wednesday morning India time, Sindhu defeated Chinese player Wang Yihan, ranked eight spots ahead of her at no. 2 in the badminton women’s singles rankings.

Sindhu defeated Wang in two straight sets; 22-20, 21-19, in a close contest.

Most of India’s Olympic medal hopefuls are already out of the Games. A few came tantalizingly close to becoming the first Indian to win a medal this summer. Shooter Abhinav Bindra, a Beijing Olympics gold medalist, finished fourth in 10-meter air rifle event. The mixed doubles tennis team of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna lost the bronze medal match. Dipa Karmakar, India’s first female gymnast to compete in the Olympics, also finished fourth in the women’s vaults final.

Other than Sindhu, there are still some Indian athletes in the medal contest. In men’s singles badminton, Srikanth Kidambi is competing with China’s Lin Dan in a quarterfinal game Wednesday evening India time. Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, a London Olympics bronze medalist, will contest on the last day of the Games.

The last time India failed to win any medals at the Olympics was 24 years ago, when the Games were held in Barcelona, Spain.

5 Things To Know About India’s Biggest-Ever Olympic Team

 

And yet Jamaica will walk away with more medals.  And in the types of events which draw athletes from the entire globe.  Not like badminton where only a few countries are serious participants.

The focus and objective is for countries to have the opportunity to participate in the various events.

And indeed, participants will eventually be positions according to their respective standings; whether individually or as a group/team.

Guyana at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Source -- https://www.newikis.com/en/wik...2016_Summer_Olympics

Guyanese athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[1][2]

<dl><dt>Key</dt></dl>

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

<dl><dt>Men</dt><dt>Track & road events</dt></dl>

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Winston George	400 m	45.77	5	Did not advance

<dl><dt>Field events</dt></dl>

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Troy Doris	Triple jump	16.81	4 q	16.90	7

<dl><dt>Women</dt><dt>Track & road events</dt></dl>

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Brenessa Thompson	100 m	Bye		11.72	7	Did not advance
	200 m	23.65	7	N/A		Did not advance
Aliyah Abrams	400 m	52.79	5	N/A		Did not advance

Swimming

Guyana has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.^[3][4][5]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hannibal Gaskin	Men's 100 m butterfly	58.57	42	Did not advance
Jamila Sanmoogan	Women's 50 m freestyle	28.88	63	Did not advance

DG what is the report on the PNC operatives sent to represent the country of Guyana?  Did these people even make the first heat much less medal?

DrugB ...

To the best of my review - no medals for Guyanese athletes.

I featured a post earlier on this thread on Troy Doris who placed eleventh in the triple jump competition event.

Of note ... Troy Doris is an US citizen representing Guyana at the games.

Drugb posted:

DG what is the report on the PNC operatives sent to represent the country of Guyana?  Did these people even make the first heat much less medal?

It is said "there is no such thing as a stupid question" Drugman proved them wrong.

This woman at work was saying that their Honduras soccer team made it to the semifinals. I told her that so far, our Guyanese team has only made it to Rio.

Demerara_Guy posted:

DrugB ...

To the best of my review - no medals for Guyanese athletes.

I featured a post earlier on this thread on Troy Doris who placed eleventh in the triple jump competition event.

Of note ... Troy Doris is an US citizen representing Guyana at the games.

Ole man, like your senility problems getting worse lately.

Troy Doris made the finals of the triple jump and finished seventh. What is "an" US citizen? Is it different to a US citizen?

Drugb posted:

DG what is the report on the PNC operatives sent to represent the country of Guyana?  Did these people even make the first heat much less medal?

Do you know any Jamaicans?  Well ask them about Champs.  Then ask yourself whether the PPP devoted the same resources to develop talent as all Jamaican governments have done even BEFORE Independence.

Your whining about whether "PNC" operatives won races or not is pathetic.  How come St Kitts and Grenada have had people who win races in international meets.  And in Grenada's case TWO Olympic medals.  Because even in those islands they engage more resources in sports than the PPP did.

Are there any international level facilities or coaching in track in Guyana?

And Druggie under the PPP ALL the people heading entities responsible for sports were Indians, so cease with your babble that blacks controlled sports.

At what point does the actions of Guyanese today stop being about what the PPP did or didn't do and start being about what the current government is or isn't doing?

ksazma posted:

At what point does the actions of Guyanese today stop being about what the PPP did or didn't do and start being about what the current government is or isn't doing?

As soon as y'all stop crying about what Burnham did 40 years ago. 

Mars posted:

ksazma posted:

At what point does the actions of Guyanese today stop being about what the PPP did or didn't do and start being about what the current government is or isn't doing?

As soon as y'all stop crying about what Burnham did 40 years ago. 

So you are saying that you are just like those who cry about what Burnham did 40 years ago.

ksazma posted:

At what point does the actions of Guyanese today stop being about what the PPP did or didn't do and start being about what the current government is or isn't doing?

When PPP nutcases stop wailing about Burnham.

Burnham died 31 years ago.  Do you know that most Guyanese living today were either NOT born, or were babies?

There is NO proof that Granger is operating like Burnham.

The PPP was in power up to less than 2 years ago.

ksazma posted:

Mars posted:

ksazma posted:

At what point does the actions of Guyanese today stop being about what the PPP did or didn't do and start being about what the current government is or isn't doing?

As soon as y'all stop crying about what Burnham did 40 years ago. 

So you are saying that you are just like those who cry about what Burnham did 40 years ago.

So you can wail about 40 years ago and we cannot inform you that 15 months isn't long enough for a new gov't to undo the damage that the PPP did.  Like wrecking Guysuco.

BTW we are still waiting for proof that Granger is waging a racial war against the entirety of the Indian population. 

Proof has already been provided about African exclusion by the Jagdeo regime, and Jagdeo was unable to prove that these accusations were false  All they could offer was a whine by Luncheon that Jagdeo is a nice man, and that he didn't believe that Jagdeo hated blacks.

So Carib just confirmed that he is just like the people he criticized.

ksazma posted:

So Carib just confirmed that he is just like the people he criticized.

In what way may I ask?  Do you even know, or is this your way of wiggling out of a proper response.

Why do you demand that people stop talking about the PPP, which was in power a mere 15 months ago, when you all still wail about a man who died 31 years ago?

I am not against criticizing Burnham as I definitely do so, but to scream that Jagdeo/Ramotar be beyond criticism because they aren't in power is share hypocrisy when the same folks are screaming that Granger is another Burnham.   And then cannot offer proof of this, aside from the fact that they are both black.

Demerara_Guy posted:

DrugB ...

To the best of my review - no medals for Guyanese athletes.

I featured a post earlier on this thread on Troy Doris who placed eleventh in the triple jump competition event.

Of note ... Troy Doris is an US citizen representing Guyana at the games.

Thank you DG, I suppose jackass Granger is doing such a wonderful job sending nincompoops to represent the country, similar to the cabinet he chose and the ambassadors. All coming in 11th place behind their peers.  

cain posted:

Drugb posted:

DG what is the report on the PNC operatives sent to represent the country of Guyana?  Did these people even make the first heat much less medal?

It is said "there is no such thing as a stupid question" Drugman proved them wrong.

cain, maybe they would have won a medal if you participated in the stupidity event. You would have gotten gold for sure.  The PNC bais only want free food and drinks. I see Bahamas and Jamaica have medals but zero for Guyana under Granger.  

Drugb posted:

cain posted:

Drugb posted:

DG what is the report on the PNC operatives sent to represent the country of Guyana?  Did these people even make the first heat much less medal?

It is said "there is no such thing as a stupid question" Drugman proved them wrong.

cain, maybe they would have won a medal if you participated in the stupidity event. You would have gotten gold for sure.  The PNC bais only want free food and drinks. I see Bahamas and Jamaica have medals but zero for Guyana under Granger.  

Reread the hilited.

You shoulda taken part in track, you had nuff nuff training running from police.

cain posted:

Drugb posted:

cain posted:

Drugb posted:

DG what is the report on the PNC operatives sent to represent the country of Guyana?  Did these people even make the first heat much less medal?

It is said "there is no such thing as a stupid question" Drugman proved them wrong.

cain, maybe they would have won a medal if you participated in the stupidity event. You would have gotten gold for sure.  The PNC bais only want free food and drinks. I see Bahamas and Jamaica have medals but zero for Guyana under Granger.  

Reread the hilited.

You shoulda taken part in track, you had nuff nuff training running from police.

This is your opinion, but the facts are the facts, a big fat lawra for the pnc athletes they sent to the Olympics. A sure reflection of the dummies in office. 

Drugb posted:

 

This is your opinion, but the facts are the facts, a big fat lawra for the pnc athletes they sent to the Olympics. A sure reflection of the dummies in office. 

The Minister responsible for Sports, the president of the Guyana Olympic committee and the head of the sports commission were all Indians.

Yet you blame blacks for the abominable performance of Guyana.  In fact I bet that the few medals that have been won were by blacks.

caribny posted:

Drugb posted:

 

This is your opinion, but the facts are the facts, a big fat lawra for the pnc athletes they sent to the Olympics. A sure reflection of the dummies in office. 

The Minister responsible for Sports, the president of the Guyana Olympic committee and the head of the sports commission were all Indians.

Yet you blame blacks for the abominable performance of Guyana.  In fact I bet that the few medals that have been won were by blacks.

Indeed, Blacks did not rise to the challenge of Jackass Granger who fill his pockets with 50% raise but neglected the rank and file of the PNC. The Indians are not known for their brawn but rather their brain, at least lately as evidenced by their dominance in the science sector. 

Drugb posted:

caribny . The Indians are not known for their brawn but rather their brain, at least lately as evidenced by their dominance in the science sector. 

So after screaming that Indians are being shut out of sports by blacks you now scream that Indians are brighter.

Well if Indians are brighter why is Guyana the most backward country in the Caribbean, aside from Haiti.  What high tech companies do we have?  Call centers?  Even Jamaica is now moving on to tech services where customers can call to trouble shoot problems with their equipment.

I will set aside the fact that most Indians are like Trump supporters.  Blinded by their racism, and so support frauds like Jagdeo who have become filthy rich at their expense.  Look how many small rice farmers have lost their lands to the Indo oligarchs!  That doesn't look smart.

As of July 2012 there are the following Call Centres in Guyana...

Call Centre Solutions

Clear Connect Call Centre at Providence.

Diamond Call Centre at Diamond

Essequibo Call Centre

Market One International at High Street, Kingston, Georgetown

Nand Persaud International Communications, Inc. at Tain, Corentyne, Berbice.

Qualfon Guyana at Beterverwagting

Sambora Communications, Incorporated

Travel Span Call Centre

Toucan Call Centre

caribny posted:

ksazma posted:

So Carib just confirmed that he is just like the people he criticized.

In what way may I ask?  Do you even know, or is this your way of wiggling out of a proper response.

Why do you demand that people stop talking about the PPP, which was in power a mere 15 months ago, when you all still wail about a man who died 31 years ago?

I am not against criticizing Burnham as I definitely do so, but to scream that Jagdeo/Ramotar be beyond criticism because they aren't in power is share hypocrisy when the same folks are screaming that Granger is another Burnham.   And then cannot offer proof of this, aside from the fact that they are both black.

I don't wiggle out of anything. I walk away when the interaction becomes futile. Getting the last word is not something a care or crave for.

Simone Biles Selected As Team USA’s Closing Ceremony Flag Bearer For Rio 2016 Olympic Games

By United States Olympic Committee | Aug. 20, 2016, 10:27 a.m. (ET), http://www.teamusa.org/News/20...o-2016-Olympic-Games

Simone Biles celebrates on the podium at the medal ceremony for the women's individual all-around at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Rio Olympic Arena on Aug. 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles was selected to lead the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team into Sunday's (Aug. 21) Closing Ceremony as flag bearer, as announced today by the United States Olympic Committee. Biles was chosen by a vote of fellow Team USA members.

In her Olympic debut, Biles won team and individual gold medals in the women’s all-around, vault and floor exercise, also adding a fifth medal – bronze – on balance beam. She became the first American gymnast to win four golds at a single Games and one of only four women to accomplish the feat in Olympic history, joining Larissa Latynina (1956), Vera Caslavska (1968) and Ekaterina Szabo (1984). 

"It's an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates,” said Biles. “This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and my team and I consider it a privilege to represent my country, the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics by carrying our flag. I also wish to thank the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the entire country of Brazil, for hosting an incredible Games.”

Widely considered the best gymnast of her generation, Biles’ Olympic medal haul extended her U.S. record to 18 individual medals combined in world and Olympic competition over the last three years. Her historic performance propelled the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to a total of nine medals in Rio, surpassing the team’s previous high of eight from the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. The nine medals are the most won by any women’s team since the Soviet Union claimed 10 medals at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. 

Biles is only the second gymnast to serve as Team USA’s flag bearer, in either the Opening or Closing Ceremony, and the first-ever female gymnast to earn the honor. Alfred Jochim is the only other American gymnast to previously serve as flag bearer, leading the U.S. delegation into the Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games.

U.S Olympic Team Flag Bearers – Closing Ceremony 
1952     Bob Kurland, Basketball            
1956     Pete Rademacher, Boxing      
1960     Mike Troy, Swimming                  
1964     Don Schollander, Swimming        
1968     Al Oerter, Track and Field              
1972     Mike Burton, Swimming
1976     Willie Davenport, Track and Field        
1984     Jeff Blatnick Wresting
1988     Terry Schroeder, Water Polo
1992     Peter Westbrook, Fencing
1996     Michael Matz, Equestrian                
2000     Rulon Gardner, Wrestling            
2004     Mia Hamm, Soccer                
2008     Khatuna Lorig, Archery              
2012     Bryshon Nellum, Track and Field
2016     Simone Biles, Gymnastics

Maybe the Qwe Que supporters will claim Simone Biles is of Guyanese heritage to compensate for the failure of the PNC operatives sent to represent the country 

Guyana is on the continent of America -- North, Central and South -- so some may try to make that point about Simone Biles.

Drugb posted:

Maybe the Qwe Que supporters will claim Simone Biles is of Guyanese heritage to compensate for the failure of the PNC operatives sent to represent the country 

Only an imbecile like you would come up with something like this.

Canada’s Melissa Bishop puts ‘best version of myself’ on the track in Olympic 800-metre final

Vicki Hall | August 20, 2016 10:09 PM ET, http://news.nationalpost.com/s...mpic-800-metre-final

Melissa Bishop searches the scoreboard for something other than the No. 4 next her name after the women's 800 metre final at the 2016 Olympics on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Melissa Bishop walked through the mixed zone without saying a word, her head bowed, her eyes filled with tears.

She came back a couple minutes later, but an Athletics Canada spokesperson let reporters know she would only answer questions about her race — not about her competitors — in the women’s 800-metre final at Olympic Stadium.

And what a race it was for Bishop, blazing to a new Canadian record of one minute, 57.02 seconds only to be passed in the final 50 metres by Margaret Nyairera Wambui of Kenya.

Bishop, the 28-year-old from Eganville, Ont., won silver at the 2015 world track and field championships in Beijing. This time, she finished a heart-breaking fourth.

“The plan was just to stick at the lead and try to respond as smoothly as possible,” she said. “So, I mean, we did what we could.”

She did what she could — and delivered the best performance of her life when it mattered most — but it wasn’t enough.

“This racing, it’s all going to come down to the last 50 metres,” Bishop said, fighting to keep her composure. “It was to be expected that everybody would be there. I just didn’t think it was going to turn out like that.”

A reporter asked how she felt in the final stretch.

“Defeated, obviously,” Bishop said. “You work so hard for this stuff. That fourth really sucks.”

She broke down.

“Thanks guys,” she said, tears streaming down her face as she walked away.

The complexion of the 800-metre women’s race has completely changed since Bishop won that silver last August in Beijing. About a week before that, the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended an IAAF rule that required female competitors to race within what was deemed an acceptable level of testosterone.

Under that rule, female athletes with naturally elevated testosterone levels were forced to take inhibitor medication if they wanted to race.

The Olympic gold medal on Saturday went to South Africa’s Caster Semenya, who has been at the centre of the debate. There were reports that she was intersex — someone who has both male and female biological elements — and that her testosterone was well above natural levels for a woman, a condition known as hyperandrogenism. Prior to the suspension of the rule last summer, it has long been believed that Semenya took drugs that inhibited her ability to produce testosterone to meet the guidelines.

In the last year, Semenya’s times dropped dramatically to the point a reporter asked Bishop earlier this week if the South African is even beatable.

“For sure,” Bishop said at the time. “Every competitor is beatable. I’m lining up on the line with these girls. So of course I want to think I can beat anybody. Why not? The sky is the limit here. There’s no limitations.”

Except in Saturday’s race, there were.

As expected, Semenya blew away the Olympic field and posted a golden time of one minute, 55.28 seconds. Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi won silver in 1:56.49. Wambui stopped the clock at 1:56.89 for bronze.

“I think everyone here at the Olympic Games is going for the podium,” Bishop said earlier this week. “Everyone wants a win. I’m certainly going to aim to be the best athlete and the best version of myself I can be on that day.

“If I leave everything out on the track, then I’ll know I’ve done my job.”

And that she did.

Melissa Bishop's time on Saturday was a national record of 1:57.02. The record had been 1:57.52, her time when she won the silver medal at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.

By the sounds of it, Semenya could be sporting a lolo. Canada should have received Bronze if true.

cain posted:

By the sounds of it, Semenya could be sporting a lolo. Canada should have received Bronze if true.

Redux used to like calling people antiman. Strange how Semenya doesn't mind parading the world stage as an antiman.

Seriously though, I personally think it is unfair for 'her' to compete with the female contestants because 'she' has an unfair advantage.

I have the same opinion regarding the bathroom issue in America because I am concern about the safety of our females citizens. America is rich enough to also include bathrooms where cross genders can still be accommodated without exposing females to potential harm. The back and forth on both sides is more political posturing than having a solution.

Drugb posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

DrugB ...

To the best of my review - no medals for Guyanese athletes.

I featured a post earlier on this thread on Troy Doris who placed eleventh in the triple jump competition event.

Of note ... Troy Doris is an US citizen representing Guyana at the games.

Thank you DG, I suppose jackass Granger is doing such a wonderful job sending nincompoops to represent the country, similar to the cabinet he chose and the ambassadors. All coming in 11th place behind their peers.  

They need more German Shepherds and Dobermans to chase those boys.