Five great Olympic athletics moments

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Karsten Warholm's victory in the men's 400 metres hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics, smashing his own world record by a huge margin into the bargain, will go down in history as one of the greatest races of all time.

Norway’s Karsten Warholm reacts after winning and breaking the world record in the men’s 400m hurdles final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 3, 2021.

His 9.69sec in the 100m could have been even quicker had he not slowed down and slapped his chest in celebration close to the line. He also had an untied shoe lace.“His top is not tucked in to his shorts, shoes are untied and he takes the last third of the race off.” Florence Griffith Joyner, or ‘Flo Jo’ as she was commonly known, was the glamorous queen of the sprints at the drug-tainted 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Although it took place in the late afternoon it was still 23 degrees Celsius , but by the 16-mile mark, just Bikila and Morocco’s Mehdi Ben Abdessalam were battling it out for gold.Bikila prevailed after finding a little extra in the tank to move clear of his valiant rival with just 500 metres to go, crossing the line in a new world record of 2hr 15min 16.2sec to become the first east African to win Olympic marathon gold.

 

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