TORCH TALK DAY 6: QUINCY HALL 400M OLYMPIC CHAMPION! 43.40! KENNETH ROOKS FULL SEND FOR STEEPLE SILVER! EPIC POLE VAULT COMP FOR NINA KENNEDY/KATIE MOON/ALYSHA NEWMAN | LIVE FROM PARIS
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
The sixth day of track and field at the Olympics was another huge one for Team USA! Quincy Hall claimed the 400m gold medal while Kenneth Rooks shocked the world with a silver medal finish in the 3000m steeplechase. As the events roll on, it’s clear that the American athletes are making a big splash and setting the stage for an exciting finish to the Games. In tonight’s edition of the Torch Talk, the team breaks down…
– Quincy Hall won the Olympic gold in the 400m at Paris 2024 in 43.40, making him the 4th-fastest man ever. Brit Matthew Hudson-Smith took bronze and Muzala Samukonga of Zambia took bronze. This was the fastest 400m race in history, as five men dipped under 44 seconds.
– Soufiane El Bakkali became the first man in nearly 100 years to successfully defend his Olympic steeplechase gold, winning with a time of 8:06.05. Kenneth Rooks won silver with a big PB, and Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya won bronze.
– Nina Kennedy won the women's pole vault at the Paris 2024 Olympics, clearing a height of 4.90m. Her gold is the first at an Olympics by an Australian female vaulter. Reigning Olympic champ Katie Moon finished in silver, and Alysha Newman broke the Canadian record to win bronze.
– Roje Stona of Jamaica set a new Olympic record with a 70.00-meter throw, earning the gold medal in men's discus in Paris. This marks Jamaica's first gold medal at the Paris Games and the nation's first-ever Olympic gold in men's discus.
– In the 110m hurdles semifinal, Grant Holloway posted the fastest time of the day at 12.98 seconds. American athletes Daniel Roberts and Freddie Crittenden also advanced to the final.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, take to Citius Mag, live from Paris, presented by A6. |
| 0:09.7 | We're here after yet another amazing day of track and field at the Stad de France. |
| 0:15.6 | We had a couple finals and honestly like going into tonight I looked at the sheet of the events that we had in store |
| 0:24.1 | and I was like, okay, like, maybe this will be like |
| 0:26.7 | Team USA's like chill night, like maybe we come away |
| 0:29.7 | with a just like a medal or two, and it'll you know not as like crazy amped up as the last couple days have been like this has been an emotion |
| 0:38.7 | Very emotionally taxing for us Americans so much pride we're just beaming right now. And then we had the |
| 0:48.0 | likes of Quincy Hall and Kenneth Brooks really just light up the track. |
| 0:52.7 | Katie Moon as well in the pole vault. |
| 0:55.6 | Great night for the United States. |
| 0:57.6 | Also a great night for Australia, |
| 0:59.3 | and so Mitch will definitely hit on that. |
| 1:01.8 | So let's jump right into it and unpack the finals that took |
| 1:06.2 | place today and we have to start with that men's 400 meter race where I guess like it was within the last month or so the |
| 1:17.1 | men's 400 got super interesting with how well Quincy Hall ran at the Olympic trials and throwing down there Matthew |
| 1:25.3 | Hudson Smith responding at the London Diamond League a couple days later. Even |
| 1:32.0 | someone like Karani James throwing down in the semifinals like hey remember me like don't forget like I've been doing this thing since 2011 before any of these guys were on the circuit so he was one of the guys to watch |
| 1:43.8 | Mike Norman you just never knew like what he was what Mike Norman was going to show |
| 1:48.4 | up in the final and so there's a lot of intrigue in this and I think the coolest cat of the whole entire bunch was Quincy Hall who really stressed American fans out in this one because he was not in it until even with a hundred meters left to go he was in about |
| 2:08.0 | fourth or fifth place and then just absolutely clawed his way back he's he's got that dog in him and just catches Matthew Hudson Smith right before the finish line. |
| 2:13.0 | He's got that dog in him and just catches Matthew Hudson Smith |
| 2:19.2 | right before the finish line, 4340, that's the fifth fastest performance of all time he that |
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