This decade has played the Olympic Games in Sydney, Athens and Beijing, as we celebrate the most memorable events in the 80-year history of AW.
Freeman’s Sydney is impressive
When it comes to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, athlete immediately comes to mind. The undisputed face of these games was Sprinter Cathy Freeman.
All the eyes of the world were on him when he lighted the vase, then what he was known as “Magic on Monday”, he received 1100-2,000 in Australia.
How Jason Henderson wrote in his report Time.
Freeman was not unknown to succeed, winning the title of the world in 1997 and 1999, but the pressure under it could not be overestimated. His main opponent, French Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perez, has broken out by Australia’s media, has been released from the games with the Australian media. But if anything that only waited for the standby level.
In six Lane six, Freeman was stuck in his program, and he worked perfect when he passed the line in 49.11, Amay Amaykian Loren’s Graham (49,72). Freeman became the first Aboriginal athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
Brand Fasse V Tergat:
Immediately after the heroism of Freeman, the field was wrinkled to men 10,000 m. It was another race to remember and focused on about two men, furnished Gebelass and Poghos Terral.
The latter was accustomed to completing his grandcounter, who had not been beaten in five years, and then won three world titles and one Olympic gold. The great power of Gebstelias was the speed of his finishing, but in Sydney, Teram tried to beat him in his game and produced it at the most exciting end of the distance.
Going 250 m, Tergas went broke, and until the last, it was not 20 meters to equalize the Ethiopian. It was 10 meters away from the closure that he was moving forward and just reached the first line. At 18:20, because Terzad finished only 0.09. The winning margin was narrower in the same games than men’s 100 m final (0.12).
Dennis contradicts the pain
After winning the Olympic bron in 1996, “Lewis” sniffed the Millennium’s heroism to the Gold Medal Dispute, the second, 1997, and in 1999 at the World Cup.
Everyone was doing well in the summer of 2000, when he broke his own British post with 6831, but more than two months, until Sydney, he badly hurt his left Achilles. He was further injured in his right leg, which meant he was filmed and dressed up to exhaustion when he started his campaign in Australia.
He looked at the eighth, 152 united the leader, after the first two events, but he sent him at 15.55 m in the first place.
Lewis began two of the 6.48 m long, which sharpened the footsteps, but saw that his transfer to the lead during 67 points. He then produced a Javelin PB, a 50,19 m capacity that hindered him on top of the tournament table. Running through pain, 800 m.
Radcliffe rewrites rules
There are a number of global posts that really change the nature of the event and Paula Radcliffe Basic Marathon 2. 00 to 2003 after London 2:15:25. When he did it, Bedford headed the British classification table, not only women before the British men’s population.
“Oxford’s English dictionary should take a new word for its pages,” Jason Henderson wrote TimeA number of hotRadipifGeneral devotion and bloody thinking, especially in connection with the pursuit of sports. Paula ran some parts of her marathon at a sub-mile pace. Half a century ago, women found it impossible for five minutes to drive, and it was not until 1954, the British Diane’s leather became the first woman who broke the barrier.
“If this former asthmatic, who once struggled at the National Championships of the National Cross, could make such feats, then what can we achieve our thoughts?”
Literally, 29-year-old, 29-year-old elderly scattered his previous record 1. By 53, only 14 people were better times.
The teenager’s blow from Kipceogo
Most time ago, he became known as the largest marathon of all time, Eliud Kickchog first demonstrated his talent after winning the 2003 World Cup at the end of 5,000 m.
He was against a field, which included Hicham El Guruj, who won his fourth third-day title and marginal favorite for four days, and the newly formed champion Kenenisa Bekel. Recently, little, 18, recently broke the world’s junior record 5000 meters, 12. 52.81, but he did not expect his rivals.
Bekel forced the early tempo and exploded through the world’s first 2000 m, at a record high rate. He moved to 3000 m away from a side of Kipchogen, as he slowed down the field, but he went with 900 m, Gueruj took over.
Moroccan was still there, who was 200 m on a train, but it was Kipchogen who went out on the top of the line, beating 12. 52.83 and break 12: 53.12.
Holmes’s dreams come true
With a wide glue and weapon, Kelly Holmes, Kelly Holmes, had become a childhood to become an Olympic champion in 800 m, in Athens and Athens. But, as it turned out, he started only.
“I still had my ultimate dream,” he said Time In 2020. Fast before the victory, and the British trunk, the British trunk. “Think of Athens, I only entered three days ago that I was going to double. 1500m has always been my dream.
In the 400-meter-finals, Holmes called the seventh, but he began to move with the field, as a former training partner Maria Mutola, a defender champion and multiple gold medalist.
When Holmes drove both Hasna Benhas and Jolanda Ceplak and they dried the flood in the fourth, because Holmes 1. During 56.38, he won his first global gold.
He returned to a final 1500 m, who proved that he was a race of his life. “I felt I was swimming. That’s how I came to the zone, “he said about his presentation he passed over the finish line.
Brits’ Relay Gold:
Only Kelly Holmes, the British team needed more good news from Athens, but few people saw coming to men in 4x100m relay.
Not since 1912, Britain has won the event, but Jason Gardener, Darren Kampbell, Marlon, united, and Mark Lewis-Francis, which included teamwork, talent and overcoming disagreements.
At 38.07, they left the top of the American team, which included Justin Gatley and Sean Crawford, 100 m and 200 million gold medalists, plus Coby Miller and Maurice Greene on an anchor.
Jones decline
The United States Marion Jones was the dominant force in the domestic world in the century, so that he would set himself a goal of winning five gold medals at the Sydney Olympics. He did not succeed in gaining 100m, 200 m and 4×400 m, but he also left Australia with a long jump and 4x100m relay bronze.
After those games, he deviated from charges, even though he never had a positive. What is important have been made to worship and interact with SCs, Tim Montgomery, two athletes who have had a positive test for performance drugs (PEDS). 2007 After the collapse of a number of athletes in San Francisco in San Francisco, he said he stated that he stated that he stated that he had stated that he had stated that he had stated that he had stated. He stated that he stated that he stated that he stated that he stated that he stated that he stated that he stated that he had stated that he had never had to do. He was sentenced to six months in prison, and he was removed from all his time and medals.
Screw explodes in Beijing
Usain Bolt would run faster in the World Berlin World Championships, but at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he exploded in global consciousness, 100 m and 4×100 m.
“Until this month” Aw The report began at the end of the games.
“Such an impact in these games, if he maintains its shape over the years, can overcome or exceed Carl Luis and Johnson Johnson.
Bolt’s talent was testified earlier when he won Tyson Gay in his fifth competitive 100 m and replaced the American recorder 9.72 times in New York.
He was now loved for the Olympic gold and left the left-side, not only by winning at 9.69, but also well-mentioned and unrelated footwear before the line. The fireworks continued from 200m, as he won a huge margin of 0.66, another record run by 19.30. US Sean Crawford was in a distant second place.
OHORUOGUE OLYMPIC MONEY
After the competition, after the completion of the missing, Christine Ohuogho became a 400 m world champion after the release of drug tests three weeks later.
In Japan, his global gold did not turn into a negative focus, he received both the media and the society, so in China the British list was competing.
After 300 meters, he could insert him in medals at all, as he was going down in a field that was led by Sania Richards-Ross. As he did with his victory in his world, Ohuruogu began to gain a late basis, and he left his opponents in 49:62, with only 49.93.
Do you know?
In Fukuoka, Kenenisa Bekele became the most successful country with its ninth and tenth individual titles at the World Country Championship.
