PARIS OLYMPICS 2024: What you need to know right now
Adds Hassan's medal achievements, Egypt host bid, Dutch cycling gold
PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) -Sifan Hassan won the women's marathon, taking gold in an Olympic record time and achieving an astonishing triple by medalling in all three distance running events at the Games.
Hers was the first medal won on the last day of the 2024 Olympics, with more than a dozen up for grabs.
Later, Paris will pass the baton to Los Angeles during the closing ceremony, after a successful Games for the French that helped reboot the Olympic brand.
Here is what you need to know about the Olympics on Sunday.
DISTANCE STAR HASSAN
The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan became the first person since Czech running star Emil Zatopek in 1952 to medal in the marathon, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres in one Olympics.
She deployed her feared lake kick to run an Olympic record time for the marathon of two hours, 22 minutes and 55 seconds, just 36 hours after coming third in the 10,000 metres on the track.
At the other end of the field, Bhutan's Kinzang Lhamo finished 90 minutes after Hassan, receiving a standing ovation from spectators as she crossed the line in three hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
EGYPT'S OLYMPIC BID
Egypt will bid to host the 2036 and 2040 Summer Olympics, with the country's improving infrastructure and sports facilities key for a successful African bid, said the head of the African national Olympic committees association (ANOCA) on Sunday.
The continent has never staged an Olympic Games. Cairo last made an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Olympics.
CYCLING'S DUTCH SPRINT KING
Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen confirmed his status as the dominant force of men's sprinting as he won the Olympic keirin on Sunday to complete a remarkable hat-trick at the National Velodrome.
Lavreysen flew around the final corner to beat Australia's Matthew Richardson, who took the silver.
U.S. DOMINATE THE RELAYS
The United States won the men's and women's 4x400 metres relays late Saturday, cementing a dominant performance on the track by the Americans at this Olympics.
The women won by more than four seconds, clocking the second-quickest time in history and stretching the country's victory streak in the event to eight in a row.
The men cut it a bit finer, just holding off Botswana on the finish line.
Jamaica's dominance in the women's sprinting came to an end in Paris.
U.S. SPOIL FRENCH DREAMS OF BASKETBALL FAIRYTALE
There was no "Miracle on the Seine" for France in the basketball as the United States ground out a 98-87 win to claim a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal.
The American showmen crushed Gallic hearts, led by Stephen Curry and a fired up LeBron James.
Later on Sunday the U.S. women will try to repeat the feat against their French counterparts, while Australia won the bronze medal game against Belgium.
TAIWAN'S LIN WINS BOXING GOLD
Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, 28, one of two boxers at the centre of a gender eligibility row, beat Poland's Julia Szeremeta to claim the women's featherweight title.
It is unclear whether boxing will feature at the next Olympics. The International Olympic Committee ran the event at Paris after it stripped the International Boxing Association of its status as the sport's global body over governance and finance issues.
Rival body World Boxing said national boxing federations needed to join its ranks to ensure the sport is included in the Los Angeles line up.
U.S. GYMNAST CHILES MAY LOSE MEDAL
American gymnast Jordan Chiles is set to lose her bronze medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise competition after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favour of an appeal by Romania's Ana Barbosu, who will move up to third place, it said on Saturday.
MEDAL TABLE MACHINATIONS
On Sunday morning China was two head in the medal table going by number of golds won, boosted by Li Wenwen of China winning the 81kg women's weightlifting on Sunday.
The United States will be looking for wins in the women's basketball and volleyball matches on take the number one slot back.
Hosts France are fifth in the standings after winning gold in the men's volleyball final against Poland on Saturday.
President Emmanuel Macron had set a target of a top five finish before the Games began.
THE PRODUCT PLACEMENT GAMES
Winning athletes in Paris have received their medals on Louis Vuitton trays before being handed a Samsung flip phone to take a "victory selfie", heralding a new era of product placement at the Olympics which Los Angeles looks set to build upon.
Reuters Olympics coverage home https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/
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Compiled by Richard Lough and Rachel Armstrong; Editing by Peter Rutherford and Hugh Lawson
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