THE Olympics is in its penultimate day but there are still plenty of medals to be won in Paris! LeBron James will be hoping to lead team USA to gold in their basketball final against hosts France. …
The Norwegian star blew it in the 1500m, but he has shown that he's a class apart tonight by cruising to take gold in the 5000m.A long way back, Kenyan Ronald Kwemoi runs a fine race in second, while Grent Fisher finishes brilliantly to sneak bronze for the USA.
Choong, who started the day 17th in the 18-man field, needed a perfect evening to get in the medal hunt. Both runners look anxiously to the big screen for confirmation of the result, and then the celebrations begin. The only goal of the contest was scored by forward Mallory Swanson, who was making her 100th appearance for the US.
There are tears of joy from the Portuguese pair, and tears of despair from Italians Simone Corsonni and Elia Viviani, who had looked set for gold.And unfortunately for Team GB, it's not good news.It's cost the British team 20 points, and if they weren't out of contention before, they are now. Mallory Swanson went close for the US on the break, but her run and shot was well saved by Lorena in the Brazilian goal.The Kiwi golfer had to settle for bronze in the Women's Individual stroke play in Toyko, having been so close to glory in Rio five years earlier, when she claimed silver.
The 29-year-old wowed at the last Olympics, but has had to deal with adversity in the build-up to this games including injury and personal disappointment.
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