Alana Boyd jumped as high as she had ever jumped, give or take a centimetre. She jumped as high as her dad had ever jumped in an Olympics. She jumped as high as the bronze medallist. But she did not win a medal.
He's done it. Usain Bolt, in gold spikes, waited 27 seconds to see if his three Jamaican teammates could shift the baton around the track. His fate was in their hands, and our hearts were in our mouths. Finally, as he had done in Beijing and London, he was able to finish the job. The Olympic men's 4x100m relay final took forever and was over in a flash.
We can confirm Almaz Ayana is human after all. It looked doubtful for a while there though.
Usain Bolt has won his ninth Olympic gold medal.
Just a day after being eliminated after a baton change bungle the US women have won a protest and won a gold.
For Australia's 4x400m relay team, it was a tale of a squeak, and then shrieks.
Organisers of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games will do all they can to convince athletics superstar Usain Bolt to extend his career to attend their event.
Jared Tallent won silver in the men's 50km walk on Friday, but his inspirational effect on Australia's athletics cause didn't end there.
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games finish on Sunday 21 August local time, Monday morning in Australia, with a closing ceremony at the Maracana Stadium that is expected to be a big Brazilian carnival party.
Mark Twain once called golf "a good walk spoiled". He should have seen Jared Tallent on Friday.
This time it was different. This time when Jared Tallent crossed the line for a silver medal he knew he had not been cheated out of gold. He was beaten by the better athlete. It was sport and sporting.
Distance athletes deal with all sorts of problems as they put their bodies under extreme stress in the pursuit of Olympic glory and personal satisfaction.
Sandy Robinson won't be surprised if half the neighbourhood comes knocking on her door to watch her son Brett.
China's sprinters were bumped out of the women's 4x100m relay final after the US were allowed a re-run despite dropping the baton in their heat.
Usain Bolt has claimed his second gold medal medal of the Olympics, winning the 200m.
He's coming back to them, but they're getting no closer to him. That is how it when you're so far ahead of your peers and your times.
Usain Bolt again stole the show, but there was drama aplenty in the race for third behind the Jamaican and Canada's Andre De Grasse in the 200m final on Thursday night.
Australian decathlete Cedric Dubler has endured a disastrous moment during the second day of his event.
Kath Mitchell was left hollow. She was close, she knew the field was wide open, but when the moment came she could not find that throw she knew was in there.
Australian Damien Birkinhead has been eliminated from the men's shot put final after failing to make the top eight after three throws.
As an Australian Olympic mascot, your humble correspondent deserves to have his funding cut, his accreditation stripped and to be placed under a permanent curfew.
Australian champion Ryan Gregson has made history and become the first Australian male in 40 years to make the final of the 1500m.
In arguably the strangest thing seen at the Olympic Stadium in Rio this week the US women's relay team raced around the track by themselves on Thursday night.
Justin Gatlin now wants to join Usain Bolt in a head-to-head race in Australia as part of the ambitious new Nitro athletics carnival.
A shattered Eleanor Patterson was at a loss to explain her early exit in the high jump at the Rio Olympics.
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