Athing Mu, 19, wins first USA 800m gold in 53 YEARS (With Replays) | Tokyo Olympics | NBC Sports

is her place to apply and show the world what she can do as a matter of fact the mayor of Trenton said Trenton makes champions in the whole world is about to see that in Tokyo how will I thing my run in this will she go straight to the front she is ready to win gold well if her hair pain has anything to say she came out here it says confident and she's going to run a confident and strong race here tonight and I love the fact that she's not deviating from the way she has run the entire season I am going to go to the front you guys wanna come along fine but you better believe that I am going to push the pace and make sure that this race is fast that's where Google is going with becomes a lame Ethiopia and raven Rogers at the back of the pack Keely Hodgkinson is the nineteen year old from Great Britain she's in the middle of taxi got off to a fast start but a thing model can go daily United States has not won this event since nineteen sixty eight that was the former Madeline manning now Madeleine mims I think most one lap to go she looks very comfortable Sonya at the Olympic trials when she ran the second fastest time ever she came through and fifty seven forty three she's just off that pace here we're going to see a really pick it up in the final four hundred I know you said the U. S. hasn't had a gold in this event since nineteen sixty eight the U. S. hasn't had a medal of any color in thirty three years since nineteen eighty eight when Kim Gallagher go Brahms whether looking very good for a metal right now because the thing mall continues to lead but now here comes the brit Hodgkinson also nine St nineteen year olds in the top three opens up that inside right so the teenagers dominating the Olympic final but nothing was done the right thing keep real estate in front of you and when you nobody can go with you it's ours to lose now there has been a massive drought studies in the women's the Olympic Games is about to be yes it is I'm trying to see Diggs one fifty five twenty two this come storming harm what a finish even Braun's %HESITATION that's the American record by the nineteen year old she shrugged off youth and inexperience and delivered a virtuoso performance I think it's safe to say guys the United States is not going to wait fifty three more years for the gold medal miss something mall we have a live and there's so much more to come from the new queen and this is what dreams are made of her family fled Sudan over two decades ago her mom said she wanted her children to have where to ladies and your my all the time her second youngest of seven never to take opportunities for granted what tonight she certainly made her mom and the entire country proud I think you are a thing of beauty you are Olympic champion at nineteen years old you go girl this is the way you win the Olympic title the hard way from the gun she goes to the lead nobody is really able to challenge %HESITATION and then we see her run quarter miles all season long she can run forty nine indoors she can run forty eight seconds outboards nobody can hang with her when she goes to her kid look at speaking of a kick look at the finish from raven Rogers look to the left of your screen raven will come into view like catches Jemma Reekie for Braun's that's got the silver she would come it's a great but she trust her kid more than anybody I know she doesn't and many Americans on the podium in the women's eight hundred magical evening for team USA so here's the thing with the in the history of this event at the Olympic Games United States had only previously tonight one three medals and in this race they get and there is the celebration and the celebration goes on in March with the gold medal Keely Hodgkinson sold out raven Rogers the bronze as a thing celebrates with her U. S.

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Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 03 2021