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100m, men. Final on August 15. Unlike the women's sprint, everything revolves around two athletes, the current 100 and 200 meter record holder Usain Bolt and the leader for the last three seasons, Justin Gatlin. Bolt has already declared that this Olympics will be his last and he will certainly make every effort to leave undefeated, the same can be said about Justin Gatlin, who is already 34 years old, that these Olympics will be his last, if not in terms of participation, then for in order to finally overtake Bolt for sure.

“First of all, you can clap louder,” Bolt said as he appeared at the press conference. - Yes, these are mine Latest Games. I did everything I could and proved everything. A lot of people won't be happy about that."

“The 100-meter dash is not a problem for me. I would like to set a world record in the 200m. I've always wanted this. It must be something like 19 seconds."

Usain Bolt has won six gold medals at the Olympics.
Bolt is also an 11-time world champion.

It is likely that Bolt is trying to put pressure on Gatlin with such statements, since at last year’s World Championship he managed to beat Justin by only 0.01 seconds, or maybe even less, but the official results read as follows: Usain Bolt 9.79, Justin Gatlin 9.80 . By the way, in the semifinals Gatlin ran in 9.77.

Answering the question at what distance Bolt could lose, the American replied that it would most likely happen in the 100-meter dash.

"He doesn't own best time in season. Things haven't been going smoothly for him lately. But, on the other hand, you shouldn’t make early statements. He's not a guy to count out."

If Usain Bolt is getting a lot of attention in Rio, he can relax by trying to dance samba with Brazilians, but here they are trying to pester Justin with talk about doping. G The head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Sebastian Coe, stated his desire for American sprinter Justin Gatlin to be banned for life and the Rio Olympics to be his last in his career. Koe made similar statements after the 2015 World Championships, to which Gatlin replied that he had set himself the goal of winning every competition where Koe was present, in order to look him in the eye and shake his hand.

34-year-old American sprinter Justin Gatlin, the last Olympic 100m champion before the Usain Bolt era, is not nervous ahead of his duel with the Jamaican athlete at the 2016 Olympics.

“I’ll just go out on the track and do what I have to do - run, have fun, make it to the finals and then to the top of the podium.

I don't think that these could be our last battles with Usain. In any case, the Olympics is a special event where everyone tries to jump above their heads. I just have to be willing to do it."

By the way, Justin is the leader of the season with a result of 9.80, while Bolt this season has the best result of 9.88, but as you know, before the last World Championships, the Jamaican sprinter had a result of 9.87, and Gatlin had 9.74.

As for the rest of the participants, it is worth paying attention to the bronze medalist of the 2015 World Championship, American Trayvon Bromell, who is 13 years younger than Gatlin. It is also worth noting that in June he suffered an injury to a sprained Achilles tendon, but already in July at a competition in Eugene he set the second result of the season at 9.84. Bromell, 21, first broke 10 seconds in 2014 (9.97), and in 2015 set a junior world record of 9.84 - the 10th fastest time in history. After which he received recognition among famous athletes.

The third result of the season was the Frenchman Jimmy Vicot with 9.86. Winner of a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games and a gold medal at the 2011 World Championships, Yohan Blake won the Olympic selection in the sprint in Jamaica, but he was unable to run above 9.9 this season; his best result of the season is 9.94.

Usain Bolt is the clear favorite, but to play his victory with odds. I wouldn’t do 1.5 at 100m, remembering how difficult it was for him to win at last year’s World Championships. It would be more preferable for Bromell to win compared to Blake, or for the American to be among the winners.

RIO-2016 Athletics

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 47 sets of medals will be played - 24 for men and 23 for women. The participation of our athletes in these competitions is still in question, since the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) due to a violation anti-doping rules temporarily deprived of membership in the International Association of Athletics (IAAF).

The initial lists of candidates for participation in the Games included the following St. Petersburg athletes: Lukeman Adams, Alexey Dmitrik, Sergey Kucherianu, Valentin Smirnov, Alexey Kharitonov, Dmitry Chizhikov, Ivan Shablyuev, Natalya Antyukh, Ekaterina Galitskaya, Elizaveta Demirova (Savlinis), Ksenia Zadorina, Yulia Kondakova, Victoria Prokopenko (Dolgacheva), Irina Reshetkina, Victoria Sudarushkina, Olga Kharitonova, Anastasia Savchenko, Elena Chernyaeva.

The very first champion

On April 6, 1896, the first winner of the modern Olympic Games was American athlete James Connolly. At the Panathenaic (also called Marble) Stadium in Athens, the 27-year-old athlete from Boston excelled in the triple jump (13.71 meters), ahead of six competitors from four countries. Moreover, the second prize-winner, Alexandre Tuffer, representing France, was almost a meter behind. Connolly jumped in the so-called Irish style - jump, jump, jump (later a different technique took root - jump, step, jump). The triple jumper competition took place after the 100m runners' preliminary heats, it was the first final of the day, so its winner was the first Olympic champion in modern history. One and a half millennia have passed since the last ancient Olympics, the countdown of new Olympians began, and the very first of them was Connolly.

He was born in Boston in 1868, one of twelve children in a family of Irish immigrants. He was interested in athletics and cycling, played American football. He went to the Games in Athens as a student at Harvard, where he entered having already had several years of work experience in an engineering position. He was denied academic leave, and James applied for expulsion - his priority at that time was participation in the revived Olympic Games. A large group of US athletes, among whom was Connolly, arrived in Europe, in Naples, Italy, on a German cargo ship, and then reached Athens by train. The champion entered into a dispute for awards in other jumping disciplines. On April 7, he became third in the long jump (6.11 m), on April 10, he shared 2nd – 3rd places in the high jump (1.65 m) with his compatriot Robert Garrett. James also competed at the 1900 Games in Paris and became silver medalist in the triple jump. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, America, Connolly worked as a journalist. By that time he had published several of his works, later famous athlete became a writer, the author of 25 novels and two hundred short stories, mainly on maritime topics.

More than fifty years after his expulsion from Harvard University, he was invited to speak there in front of students and teachers and, as one of the celebrities of this educational institution, was awarded a personalized sports sweater. A year later, in 1949, he was offered an honorary doctorate from Harvard as a writer, but he refused it. James Brendan Connolly died in January 1957 in Brooklyn, a suburb of Boston, at the age of 89. Thirty years later, a monument to the first champion was unveiled in one of the Boston parks - Connolly is depicted at the moment of landing after a jump.

Victory disc

The first gold medal was won at the Helsinki Games in 1952. olympic medal Soviet athletes. On July 20, all the prizes in the discus throwers competition were taken by representatives of our country, and Nina Romashkova (later Ponomareva) became the champion.

20 participants from 16 countries took part in the discus ball dispute. The qualification standard - 36 meters - was fulfilled by 18 athletes who made it to the finals. 23-year-old Muscovite Nina Romashkova was in the lead with a result of 45.05 m. In the first final attempt, she threw the projectile 11 cm further and was second only to her older teammate Nina Dumbadze. In the second attempt, Romashkova’s disk flew over 50 meters, and no one except her could achieve this milestone in Helsinki. The third attempt brought a champion result of 51.42 m. In the remaining three outings in the throwing circle, when the top six competed, the results of all athletes did not exceed the 50-meter mark. At the same time, Romashkova was ahead of her rivals in each of these attempts.

The Olympic champion was born in April 1929 in the Sverdlovsk region - repressed parents worked in a taiga village while serving time. Since 1936, the family settled in a village near Essentuki, Nina in the Stavropol region, and began to seriously engage in athletics. Since 1949, she represented the Central sports club army (Moscow), after success in Helsinki in 1956, she became the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in discus throwing, and in 1960 in Rome she won her second highest Olympic award.

Upon completion sports career Nina Apollonovna Ponomareva worked as a coach at a Kyiv school for thirty years Olympic reserve, since 1998 she has lived in Moscow again.

The core is beyond the cherished line

Following Nina Romashkova-Ponomareva, Galina Zybina achieved a gold medal at the 1952 Games in Helsinki. July 26 at Olympic Stadium she won the shot put with a world record of 15.28 m. The 21-year-old athlete, a representative of the Zenit society (Leningrad), a student of the famous coach Viktor Alekseev, became the first Olympic champion among the athletes of the city on the Neva in athletics.

Two days earlier, Zybina participated in the javelin throwing competition, taking fourth place. And in the shot putter competition she performed brilliantly. She completed the qualification standard without taking off her training suit. In the afternoon, in the final part, in the first attempt, I pushed the projectile exactly 15 meters and took the lead. Zybina could even refuse the last, sixth throw; no one could get ahead of her. But it was in this attempt that the Leningrad athlete set a world record. She was given gold medal, and immediately from the podium she approached the microphone of radio commentator Vadim Sinyavsky and said hello hometown, in which she was born and survived the hardships of the blockade.

Galina Ivanovna Zybina added to her portfolio of Olympic awards at subsequent Games. In the shot put, she became a silver medalist in 1956 and bronze in 1964. Honored veteran, author of the book “ Treasured trait"and now does not remain aloof from significant sporting events in our city, was a torchbearer at the Olympic torch relay.

Prepared by Stanislav TARATYNOV

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A sport that shows strength, agility and general fitness, which often does not require special equipment, but which does not become any less difficult, is athletics. Athletics traditionally features a wide variety of disciplines. In total, 47 sets of medals will be played in the competition, 24 of which are in men's categories, and 23 in women's categories. Athletics is a sport in which the most large number medals at the Olympics.

Athletics Games Participants

About two thousand athletes from almost every country in the world will come to compete in track and field disciplines at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In each discipline, no more than three participants can be represented from one country. If we are talking about a relay team, then no more than one team.

Unfortunately, due to the doping scandal, admission Russian athletes involved in athletics is in question. The most likely outcome: Summer Olympics participants from Russia will not be able to compete.

Selection is based on the compliance of athletes' performance with established standards. Qualifying competitions include all Olympic disciplines.

The qualifying tournament does not provide personal quotas for competitions in this sport. Each country can choose who to send to participate in the Games.

Running and road disciplines:

races of 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 5000, 10000 meters;
hurdle races 100 m (women), 110 m (men), 400 m;
3000 m steeplechase race (also called steeplechase);
relay races 4x100, 4x400 meters;
marathon;
walking 20 km and 50 km (men only).

Technical disciplines:

jumps: long, triple, high, pole vault;
shot put;
throwing: discus, javelin, hammer;
all-around;
women: heptathlon;
men: decathlon.

Athletics competition calendar

The Olympics feature many different distances and athletics competitions, but for men the disciplines have remained the same for decades, while changes occur in women's sports at almost every Games. Distances are increasing, new ones are being added, and today there are almost no differences between men's and women's competitions. The only difference is race walking at 50 km: women do not have it.

Almost every day in athletics there are finals of competitions in one or more disciplines.

Summer Olympic Games in Athletics, schedule:

Men:

Discus throw: 12;
long jump: 12;
high jump: 14, 16;
triple jump: 15, 16;
800m race: 12, 13, 15;
400m race: 12, 13, 14;
100m race: 13, 14;
10 thousand meters race: 13;
pole vault: 13, 15;
110 m hurdles race: 15, 16;
400m hurdles: 15, 16, 18;
3000 m steeplechase: 15;
1000 m race, 16;
200m race, 16, 17, 18;
decathlon: 17, 18;
hammer throw: 17, 19;
5000m race: 17, 20;
javelin throw: 17, 20;
shot put:18;
4x100 relay: 18.19;
1500 m race: 18, 20;
50km walk:19;
4x400 relay: 20;
marathon: 21;

Women:

Heptathlon: 12.13;
shot put: 12;
100m race: 12, 14;
200m race: 15, 16, 17;
400m race: 13, 14, 15;
1500 m race: 12, 14, 16;
5000m race: 16;
hammer throw: 12, 15;
triple jump: 13, 14;
3000 m steeplechase: 13, 15;
marathon: 14;
400m hurdles: 15, 16, 18;
discus throw: 15, 16;
100m hurdles: 16, 17;
javelin throw: 16;
long and pole vault: 16;
800 race: 17, 18;
high jump:18;
4x100 relay: 18, 19;
javelin throw:18;
20 km walk: 19;
pole vault: 19;
5000m race: 19;
high jump: 20;
800m race: 20;
4x400 relay: 20.

The final action in the main arena of Brazil was accompanied by a downpour, which slightly spoiled the mood of the participants in the “parade of heroes”, the spectators in the stands and the organizers of the ceremony. Although those who leave Rio in good mood, with a sense of accomplishment and a won medal, such a trifle as rain is unlikely to spoil the impression of the first Olympic Games in South America.

Medal count

Sputnik, Maria Tsimintia

Few doubted that the US team would win the overall team competition. In 1992, during the Games in Barcelona, the Americans took second place, losing to the united CIS team. Since then, they have consistently been among the leaders in the team standings. The only misfire happened in Beijing in 2008, where they lost leadership to the Chinese.

The British, who at the Games in Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996) did not even make it into the top ten, but finished in the top ten in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004), became second.

Until the penultimate day of competition, Russia waged a desperate struggle with Germany for fourth place and ultimately managed to get ahead of its competitors, winning two more golds. The final medal of the highest dignity for the Russian national team was brought by freestyle wrestler Soslan Ramonov.

The Georgian national team won seven medals at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and, in terms of the total number of awards won, repeated the result of the London Games. However, it surpassed them in quality terms. Four years ago, Georgians climbed to the highest step of the podium only once. This time the Georgian anthem was played twice in Rio de Janeiro.

Georgian medalists of the XXXI Summer Olympic Games

Lasha Talakhadze (weightlifting, +105 kg)

Vladimir Khinchegashvili (freestyle wrestling, -57 kg)

Varlam Liparteliani (judo, -90 kg)

Lasha Shavdatuashvili (judo, -73 kg)

Irakli Turmanidze (weightlifting, +105 kg)

Shmagi Bolkvadze ( Greco-Roman wrestling, -66 kg)

Geno Petriashvili (freestyle wrestling, -125 kg)

It is impossible not to note the amazing progress of the Azerbaijani Olympians, who won 18 medals (1-7-10) at the Games in Brazil. London indicator they exceeded by eight awards.

Heroes of the Olympics...

Swimmer Michael Phelps, who, for a moment, is already 31 years old, again “came, saw, conquered.” At the Rio Games, the American won five gold medals and became a 23 (!) time Olympic Champion. It is difficult to even imagine that anyone will even be able to approach such indicators in the near future.

Michael Phelps (USA), who won the gold medal in the men's 200m medley swimming, at the awards ceremony of the XXXI Summer Olympics.

Americans Katie Ledecky (swimming) and Simone Biles ( artistic gymnastics) were slightly behind Phelps, winning four golds each.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt again won three gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100 relay, becoming a nine-time Olympic Champion. At the last three Olympics, Bolt has consistently won these disciplines.

Usain Bolt (Jamaica) after finishing the 200m final during the men's track and field competition at the XXXI Summer Olympics.

...and "heroes of the Olympics"

The US women's track and field team dropped in the semifinals of the 4x100 meter relay. baton and failed to qualify for the deciding race. The Americans filed an appeal, saying they were interfered with by the Brazilian athletes. The appeal was granted. The US team was allowed to run through the semi-finals in splendid isolation. During the re-run, they showed a better time than their rivals from China, and the latter were “asked” from the final. The appeal of the Asian athletes was not satisfied, and the Americans became Olympic Champions.

Georgian heroes of Rio

If we do not take into account the Georgian athletes who won medals at the Rio Games, then Georgia has other heroes who have won the hearts of fans not only in their homeland, but also in the world.

Canoeist Zaza Nadiradze was incredibly happy when he was able to qualify for the Olympics. I couldn't even dream of more. But Nadiradze performed well in qualifying and reached the semi-finals of the single canoe competition at a distance of 200 meters. In the semi-finals he finished first, leaving behind the incumbent Olympic Champion Ukrainian Yuri Cheban and four-time World and European champion Valentin Demyanenko. But in the finals, nervousness and lack of experience in participating in competitions of this rank took their toll. As a result, Nadiradze took fifth place, but won the hearts of thousands of fans.

Seoul Olympic Champion (1988) in pistol shooting Nino Salukvadze came to Rio for her eighth Games in her career. A unique achievement among women in this sport. Salukvadze was able to reach the finals of the competition, but in the end she was left without a medal. After completing her performances, she said that she would most likely be preparing for the Tokyo Olympics - the ninth in a row.

David Kharazishvili became the first marathon runner in the history of Georgia to win a license for the Olympic Games. The Georgian athlete started well, but at the 25th kilometer he felt a sharp pain in his side. He didn’t run for almost two kilometers, he just walked and even thought about withdrawing from the race. However, he found the courage and crossed the finish line. As a result, he took 72nd place, but ended up in the first half of finishers and left 93 athletes behind him.

40 Georgian athletes went to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which is a record figure. For the first time in the history of independent Georgia, the country was represented in such sports as: women's weightlifting (Anastasia Gottfried), women's judo (Esther Stam), men's shot put (Benik Abrahamyan), women's high jump (Valentina Lyashenko).

Green water Rio

Water in the center pool aquatic species Rio de Janeiro, where the diving competition was supposed to take place, suddenly turned green, which baffled even the technical staff. It later turned out that this was due to 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide accidentally poured into the pool. The substance neutralized chlorine, which promoted the growth of “organic compounds,” including, possibly, seaweed. Despite the fact that the water did not pose a threat to the health of the athletes, it still had to be replaced.

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