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On Jamaica's Independence Day, Women's Sprint Team Caps Dominant Olympics With 4x100 Gold 

On their country's autonomy day, the four ladies hung themselves in their home banner and embraced, praising a public record and an absolutely predominant exhibition in running at the Tokyo Olympics.  사설토토

They had shown up at the track one final time Friday night as weighty top choices. Three individuals from the group — Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson — cleared the decorations in the 100 meters, an occasion where Thompson-Herah broke the 33-year-old Olympic record of Florence Griffith Joyner. A couple of evenings later, she won gold in the 200 meters — and was simply 0.19 seconds off Griffith Joyner's reality record — to turn into the main lady to clear the 100 and 200 in consecutive Olympics. 

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It would have taken a calamity Friday night for Jamaica to lose — possibly a stagger or an untidy handoff — however it quickly executed every leg and held off a push from the United States, which got done with silver in 41.45 as rising star Gabby Thomas couldn't get Jackson on the anchor leg. England took bronze in 41.88. 

"We simply needed it collectively. We needed a world record and an Olympic record," Thompson-Herah said. "We actually got a public record on autonomy day. There's not more that we can request." 

The United States had entered Friday late evening searching for a third continuous Olympic gold decoration in the occasion — it had succeeded at six of the past nine Olympics — yet the Americans had no returners from the 2016 group that traveled in Rio de Janeiro. 

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Thomas, who won bronze in the 200 meters, was the solitary medalist in the setup. The shortfall of Sha'Carri Richardson, who couldn't contend in Tokyo after she tried positive for weed in June at the U.S. Preliminaries, didn't help. Richardson had run the third-quickest time in the 100 this year at 10.72. Just Thompson-Herah and Fraser-Pryce had run quicker. 

The Americans additionally needed to conform to not having a standard Olympic instructional course due to the Covid pandemic. The group of four in the last — Javianne Oliver, Teahna Daniels, Jenna Prandini and Thomas — had met up a long time before Tokyo to set up beat and science. On Thursday, they watched their male partners in the 4x100 bungle a handoff to complete 6th in their warmth and miss the last. The ladies set off to show the amount they had become together as they arranged Friday night. 

"Truth be told, I feel that we just needed to demonstrate it," Thomas said. "We couldn't have an instructional course this year in light of Coronavirus. We were unable to do transfer practice. We were unable to do transfer handoffs. Yet, we met up for rehearses. We confided in one another. We buckled down together. We even needed to do some exchanging. We had different young ladies running the prelim, yet we only sort of arranged it, and it worked out on the grounds that we had that trust." 

Jamaica was as yet in charge from the beginning. Briana Williams ran a lightning-fast initial 100 meters — and when Thompson-Herah and Fraser-Pryce had expanded the lead in the center legs with their speed and sharp handoffs, Jackson had an agreeable early advantage on Thomas on the homestretch. 

After the triumph, there were thunderings of a likely dissent by the Americans over a potential path infringement — no dissent was documented — and a journalist educated the Jamaican group of four about the theory. 

"I don't believe they will deny us on autonomy day," Fraser-Pryce said, and in the long run the four runners snickered. They didn't get their reality record, however they got affirmation of the fact that they are so near it by winning the remainder of their take of gold awards. 

"I'm simply thankful. We went out there and put forth a valiant effort," Jackson said, "and our best was sufficient."