![]() (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Valarie Allman, of the United States, competes in the women’s discus throw final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. TOKYO, JAPAN – AUGUST 02: Valarie Allman of Team United States competes in the Women’s Discus Final on day ten of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on Augin Tokyo, Japan. One of the founding members of the biennial Southeast Asian Games, Malaysia are sending 677 athletes 403 men and 274 women to the 32 nd edition at first-time hosts, Cambodia. You can’t prepare for that.”Įven if Allman couldn’t prepare for the rain, she overcame the delay to fulfill that mantra Sion taught her. Southeast Asia is about to put on a show with the SEA Games 2023 taking place from 5- in Cambodia. ![]() Rain is one of those things it makes timing hard, it makes rhythm hard. “For me, training for discus is such a tactical thing, it’s all about precision. “Weather always is one of those finicky things you can never predict,” Allman said. It came after the competition in Tokyo was interrupted by rain. The throw Monday was almost 24 feet better than her performance at the World Championships in 2019. SANR Wooden Olympic Discus,Throwing Olympic Discus Size 2 kg Track Field Olympic Discus, Practice Training Olympic Discus, Olympic Discus for Exercise. Note should be made that in sixth place finished 47-year-old 2000 Olympic champion Ellina Zvereva of Belarus, who when taking her title in Sydney aged 39 was the oldest ever Olympic champion at this event.Renowned boxers visit Pajaro trailer park to lift spirits after flood While Song improved her best by three centimetres in round five, ultimately the medals had been decided. If there was animation in this event then it was when Olena Antonoiva of Ukraine in the fifth round passed Aimin Song for bronze, her 62.59m surpassing the Chinese’s 62.17m, and suppressing the crowd’s till then enthusiastic interest in the final. Yet there is no taking away the fact that Brown-Trafton had done everything right since arriving in Beijing, as she was also the best overall qualifier on Friday, 62.77m, and so richly deserves her Olympic title.Ĭuba’s Yarelis Barrios, the World bronze medallist, put together the best series of the night – topped out by 63.84 in the second round, with another three efforts of 62.12m or better. With three fouls and two other valid marks of only 58.39 (4th) and 61.30 (5th), this was not a results sheet likely to filed for posterity by many. Nothing wrong in that of course, if the winner is truly dominant but Brown-Trafton’s series only had the one high, her opening heave. ![]() As marvellous as her victory is, and we take nothing away from it, the competition was the lowest standard Olympic final since 1968 which was won with 58.28m.īut this was more than just statistically low it was lack lustre as a real competition, as a spectacle. The 29-year-old third string US squad member came out of nowhere to win this title, having an international championships career record which before her entry in Beijing, began and ended with her non-qualification performance at the Athens Olympics.īrown-Trafton who hails from California and works in Information Technology is a blank canvas in terms of her profile as an international athlete. There will be much rejoicing in Team USA at this result which on Day 4 brings the world’s super power of athletics its first gold medal of these Olympic Games. ![]() The last US medal at the Olympics being the silver in the Soviet block boycotted Olympics of 1984, which went to Leslie Deniz. The most unexpected result of the Athletics programme so far, saw USA’s Stephanie Brown-Trafton take the Olympic crown with a first round 64.74m, the first American victory in the women’s Discus Throw since 1932.
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