The USA are top of the athletics medal table with five golds and 20 podiums but with three days to go are a considerable way off the 13 golds they won at Rio 2016.įour of their five golds have come from women, with the sole men's one coming in shot put as they continue to underperform in the individual track events. "The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership," he said. The verdict by Carl Lewis was damning as the American men's 4x100m team - made up of Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker and Cravon Gillespie - finished sixth in their heat and failed to reach the final. Are the United States underperforming on the track? Meanwhile, Belgium's Nafi Thiam retained her heptathlon title and Canadian Damian Warner won the decathlon with an Olympic record score. The United States are second behind China in the medal table and will add to their tally after the men's basketball team reached Friday's final, while Nelly Korda is in a strong position in the women's golf, where she has a four-stroke lead after two rounds.Īway from the traditional powerhouses, Burkina Faso were celebrating a first-ever Olympic medal when Fabrice Zango took bronze in the triple jump and India ended a 41-year wait for a hockey medal.Īnd the first-ever gold medal was awarded in karate, where Spain's Sandra Sanchez Jaime triumphed in the women's kata, and in sport climbing, where her compatriot Alberto Gines Lopez claimed victory. There is a very real chance that the USA may fail to win a gold medal in a men's individual running event for the first time, not including the 1980 Games that they boycotted.Īmerican spirits were lifted by Ryan Crouser beating his own Olympic record to defend his shot put title, a pole vault title for Katie Nageotte, and news that BMX rider Connor Fields was set to be released from hospital less than a week after a crash that left him with a brain haemorrhage. That defeat was followed by world champion and overwhelming favourite Holloway being beaten by Jamaican Hansle Parchment in the men's 110m hurdles final, while there was no medal for the USA in the men's 400m, an event they used to dominate but which was won by Bahamas' Steven Gardiner.
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