TOKYO : With world records smashed and dozens of personal best times achieved on its speedy track, Tokyo's Olympic athletics programme is proving to be one of the most memorable for decades.
With just one gold secured - courtesy of Ryan Crouser in the shot put - the American men's team face the dire prospect of missing the top of the track podium for the first time in the Games' 125-year history - barring their boycott year in 1980. By Thursday evening, the number was dwindling after the U.S. men were kept off the 400 metres podium, an event they swept in 2004 and 2008 but haven't won since.Among their four gold medals, Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record to win the 400 metres hurdles and Athing Mu delivered a first U.S. 800 metres gold since 1968.
Grant Holloway came within one hundredth of a second of Aries Merritt's 110 metres hurdles world record and Noah Lyles posted a world-leading 19.74 in the 200 metres. They, however, walked away with silver and bronze in Tokyo.Although Rai Benjamin's 46.17 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles smashed the world record, Norway's Karsten Warholm smashed it by even more.The U.S.
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