Reviewing Sunday’s race he also commented, “Probably we took the wrong choice with the tyres. We started with the soft thinking that the track would have gone to dry much quicker to get a flag-to-flag, but finally this didn’t happen so the performance dropped a lot. Anyway, I’m happy because if you see the classification of those who had soft tyres, we are third, and furthermore we could make very good steps forward.” Source link
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Usain Bolt wins third consecutive 100 meters
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Usain Bolt sauntered onto the track, stretched out his arms and waved his hands, signaling for more applause. He knew how this night was going to go. Bolt’s swan song in the Olympic 100 meters Sunday night was a no-doubter — a pedestrian-by-his-standards 9.81-second sprint down the straightaway, but not so slow that he couldn’t take time to point at his own chest with his thumb a step before he crossed the finish line. “It was brilliant,” Bolt said. “I didn’t go so fast but I’m so happy I won. I told you guys I was going to do it.” He won his record-setting third straight title in track’s featured event and his seventh Olympic
Olympic Track and Field 2016: Dates, Start Times, TV Schedule, Live Stream
Share this: Track and field will help define the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the athletics portion of the Summer Games finally is upon us. The track and field events will begin on Friday and run through Aug. 21. In that time span, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt will try to defend his title as the world’s fastest man. USA’s Justin Gatlin is among the contenders to de-throne Bolt, and the two have carried their simmering rivalry into the Olympics. Expect competitors to set some new world records in Rio. That’s often the case in the Summer Olympics. But Russian athletes won’t win any medals or set new marks. They’re banned from competing in Rio due to widespread, state-sponsored doping. Here’s everything you need
Yamaha VR46 Master Camp riders hit the track
Soichiro Minamimoto (Japan): “I learned the basic techniques today and at the end of the session I was able to run the overall corner and control the tyre slide, which I really enjoyed. It was the first time that I rode a YZ250F, but it was very good. I wanted to go fast at the beginning, because it’s easy to jump to a conclusion, but Mr. Marco Belli said to us that it’s important to think ahead and I understood what he said very much.”...
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