Worldwide stars shined on the Paris Video games – Cyber Tech

A few of these athletes have been already well-known earlier than the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, they usually arrived surrounded by excessive expectations. Others have been maybe much less acquainted. However all left their mark on Paris.

In athletics, on the elegant purple monitor of the Stade de France, 24-year-old Swede Armand Duplantis dominated the pole vault occasion to win his second consecutive Olympic title, a primary on this self-discipline. In entrance of 65,000 delighted spectators, he beat his personal world report of 6.25 meters by only one centimetre.

After her victory in Tokyo in 2021, 25-year-old American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone as soon as once more took the 400m hurdles title and set a brand new world report of fifty.37 seconds, up from 50.65 in July. Alongside her compatriot Gabby Thomas, 27, gold medallist within the 200m and 4 × 100m she additionally contributed to the US crew’s gold medal within the 4 × 400m.

One other American star of the Paris Video games, Noah Lyles, triple world champion (100m, 200m, 4 × 100m) and bronze medallist within the 200m on the Tokyo Video games in 2021, was aiming for an unprecedented quadruple: 100m, 200m, 4 × 100m, and 4 × 400m. The flamboyant sprinter solely managed to climb to the highest of the 100m podium in 9.79 seconds, 0.005 seconds forward of Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, in a historic last wherein all rivals ran the race in beneath 10 seconds for the primary time. Affected by Covid-19, he additionally received bronze within the 200m on August 9 earlier than ending his Olympic profession. Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon additionally made historical past by successful her third consecutive Olympic title within the 1,500m on the age of 30, setting an Olympic report within the course of.

Return of a legend

Simone Biles‘ return to competitors was probably the most eagerly awaited moments of the 2024 Olympic Video games, three years after she needed to withdraw from many of the gymnastics occasions on the Tokyo Video games because of a case of the “twisties” – a lack of spatial consciousness. 4-time Olympic champion since Rio 2016, Biles confirmed she was again on the prime of her sport, successful three new gold medals (particular person all-around, crew and vault) and a silver (ground train). This brings her complete variety of Olympic medals to 11, consolidating her standing as a legend in her sport. She additionally confirmed her human aspect by falling within the beam last and ending second within the ground train, behind her pal and rival, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who additionally completed second within the all-around and vault, and third within the crew competitors.

One other athlete who has made historical past in his sport was tennis participant Novak Djokovic. With 99 profession titles, together with 24 Grand Slams and a Davis Cup title in 2010, Djokovic had beforehand dissatisfied on the Olympics, excluding a bronze medal in Beijing in 2008. He put an finish to a frustration that had turn into an obsession by lastly successful the title in Paris on the age of 37.

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