TORCH TALK DAY 7: SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE BREAKS WORLD RECORD TO DEFEND HER TITLE, GRANT HOLLOWAY & TARA DAVIS GET THEIR GOLDS + LETSILE TEBOGO BEATS NOAH LYLES (HEALTH UPDATE)
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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The seventh of track and field action at the Paris Olympics was monumental in so many ways, and another stellar day for Team USA! Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke the world record en route to Olympic gold in the women's 400m hurdles and Tara Davis-Woodhall claimed gold in the long jump. In tonight's edition of Torch Talk, the team breaks down...
– Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her second Olympic gold in the women's 400mH and broke the world record for the sixth time, running 50.37. She is the first woman to ever win back-to-back Olympic golds in this event. Anna Cockrell set a huge PB to upset Femke Bol for silver. Bol settled for bronze in 52.15.
– Letsile Tebogo upset Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek to win gold in the men's 200m, running an African record of 19.46. It's the first time the 200m Olympic crown has ever been won by an African man. Bednarek won silver for the second Games in a row and Lyles took home bronze. After the race, Lyles revealed he had tested positive for COVID earlier in the week.
– Grant Holloway finally got an Olympic gold to go with his three world titles. He won in 12.99, his 5th time under 13 seconds this year. Daniel Roberts beat out Rasheed Broadbell by .003 seconds to win silver, making it another 1-2 for the U.S.
– Tara Davis-Woodhall won the women's long jump competition with a best mark of 7.10m, her first global title outdoors. Malaika Mihambo, the defending champion, finished in silver and Jasmine Moore won bronze. After her triple jump bronze earlier in the meet, Moore becomes only the 2nd woman in history to medal in both horizontal jumps in the same Olympics.
– Arshad Nadeem won the men's javelin competition in 92.97m, recording the 2 best throws in Olympic history in the process. It's the first track and field medal ever won by a Pakistani athlete.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Sidious Mag, live from Paris, powered by A6. Another night here and another night of the |
| 0:11.2 | athletes putting on an absolute show. |
| 0:14.4 | Tonight we were treated to more US gold medals, |
| 0:19.0 | a world record. |
| 0:20.2 | So we're gonna unpack all of it. |
| 0:21.9 | We had the women's 400 meter hurdle final, men's 200 final, |
| 0:26.1 | men's 110 hurdle final, women's long jump final, the start of the women's |
| 0:30.2 | heptathlon, and then the women's 1500 semi-final. |
| 0:35.0 | So we have to start with Sidney McLaughlin-Lavroni's world record. |
| 0:41.0 | It was the 100th medal of Team USA at these Olympic Games and she lowered her own world record for the sixth time to 50.37 seconds, only woman to win the event in consecutive Olympic Games. |
| 0:58.5 | We had Anacockerel finish in second place in a personal best of 50.87 for silver and |
| 1:06.1 | Fempka Bowl just beat out I believe it was Jasmine Jones who was in fourth in 5229 which would have been a nice USA sweep but |
| 1:17.1 | Félicable ends up with another bronze medal the way that this race played out for about I would say 250 meters like maybe even closer to 300 |
| 1:29.8 | Sydney and FEMCO were neck and neck, but coming off of that turn, that turn, the second turn, |
| 1:38.0 | that's when Sydney opened up and she proved that she is the most dominant athlete on this planet and one handily broke the world record. |
| 1:49.0 | I think at that point everyone in the stands is just kind of looking at the clock. |
| 1:52.0 | Are we going to get that sub 50? |
| 1:52.9 | It was just a tad bit over. |
| 1:54.8 | Nothing to be disappointed about |
| 1:56.0 | because it's another world record. |
| 1:57.2 | And so our mind just continues to get blown by Sydney. |
| 2:01.4 | Anacockerel just laid on the track after, because she was spent and at the same time just overcome with so much emotion because she's someone who like this has been in the making for a long time. |
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