2016 Rio Olympics: Official Day 5 Live Discussion Thread

Silver and Bronze for the US!!!!! AMAZING!

I like that "jogfest" was used on NBC. Someone's been reading letsrun.

1:57.8 last 800, thanks in part too Dibaba going for it with a 56.80 third 400. I wonder: if she held that 56 to the last lap would she have won.

Allen hit all but one hudle in the semi. Who gives. A crap about what the football team is doing?

Exactly my point. That is a damn good winning time in the 800m MF Olympic final or a Diamond League time trial. That was a waste of a 1500m. Just a glorified warm-up for the first half? What's the point. Not even racing the correct event basically.

agip wrote:

they said last 800: 1:57.8

Congrats to Jenny Simpson on her second major world championship. Make sure to tune in for the medal ceremony in 2019.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Penultimate lap of (800m-1200m) of 56.8 for Dibaba. Wow. Paid for it later. Anyone know Kipyegon's last 600, 800?

1:57.8

Internet researcher. wrote:

Rowbury will probably end up with Bronze at some point.

From 2012 maybe.

minong wrote:

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Penultimate lap of (800m-1200m) of 56.8 for Dibaba. Wow. Paid for it later. Anyone know Kipyegon's last 600, 800?

1:57.8

And they were still jogging until the last 700 basically.

USA killing it in the medal count. I think that is the 12th medal. Next is Kenya with 6.

Final Splits

Split Athlete Country Mark

800m Genzebe Dibaba ETH 2:27.11

400m Laura Weightman GBR 1:16.57

1200m Genzebe Dibaba ETH 3:23.90

Pos Bib Athlete Mark Detail

1 950 Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon KEN 4:08.92

2 643 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 4:10.27

3 1372 Jennifer Simpson USA 4:10.53

4 1370 Shannon Rowbury USA 4:11.05

5 1032 Sifan Hassan NED 4:11.23

6 1222 Meraf Bahta SWE 4:12.59

7 710 Laura Muir GBR 4:12.88

8 648 Dawit Seyaum ETH 4:13.14

9 647 Besu Sado ETH 4:13.58

10 1095 Sofia Ennaoui POL 4:14.72

11 728 Laura Weightman GBR 4:14.95

12 993 Rababe Arafi MAR 4:15.16

I know everyone wants to ride Jenny Simpson's briefs, but did it not seem to anyone else like she boxed in / made contact with Rowbury about halfway through the race (before the surge)?

Hell yeah - Go Jenny! What a great race. Didn't think she would reel in Hassan in the last 50, but she sure as heck did. Would have reeled in Dibaba with another 20 meters too.

What was Jenny's last 800? 2:00?

Pos Rank Bib Group Athlete Results

1 1 1090 B Maria Andrejczyk POL 67.11 Q

2 2 598 B Barbora Špotáková CZE 64.65 Q

3 1 562 A Sara Kolak CRO 64.30 Q

4 3 781 B Linda Stahl GER 63.95 Q

5 2 392 A Tatsiana Khaladovich BLR 63.78 Q

6 3 1173 A Sunette Viljoen RSA 63.54 Q

7 4 526 A Huihui Lyu CHN 63.28 Q

8 4 977 B Madara Palameika LAT 63.03 Q

9 5 556 A Flor Ruiz COL 62.32 q

10 6 769 A Christina Obergföll GER 62.18 q

11 7 754 A Christin Hussong GER 62.17 q

12 5 331 B Kathryn Mitchell AUS 61.63 q

13 6 1382 B Kara Winger USA 61.02

14 8 976 A Sinta Ozolina LAT 60.92

15 7 520 B Lingwei Li CHN 60.91

16 9 476 A Elizabeth Gleadle CAN 60.28

17 8 1277 B Kateryna Derun UKR 60.02

18 10 1186 A Martina Ratej SLO 59.76

19 11 1281 A Hanna Hatsko-Fedusova UKR 58.90

20 9 632 B Liina Laasma EST 58.06

21 10 912 B Yuki Ebihara JPN 57.68

22 12 330 A Kim Mickle AUS 57.20

23 13 524 A Shiying Liu CHN 57.16

24 11 666 B Mathilde Andraud FRA 56.61

25 14 1354 A Maggie Malone USA 56.47

26 12 393 B Tatsiana Korzh BLR 56.16

27 15 1325 A Brittany Borman USA 56.04

28 13 336 B Kelsey-Lee Roberts AUS 55.25

29 16 568 A Yulenmis Aguilar CUB 54.94

30 14 850 B Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir ISL 54.92

31 15 663 B Sanni Utriainen FIN 53.42

Would Rowbury ever run her own race and stop trying to sit and kick Simpson EVERY DAMN TIME.

JENNY IS PROBABLY THE REAL GOLD MEDALIST.

2 dopers beat her.

Was Rowbury wearing a nose ring? She looked like a bull.

Muir left it in the semi.