'It is one of those that will etch in the history books forever. The last 100 metres is the stuff of legends' 🙌 What a moment, what a run from Hoare 👉 CommonwealthGames2022
“I’ve never seen anything quite like it to be truthful.”“He looks devastated. Rohan would not have been able to do a lot of this training, he would have been focusing on getting his body right. He just really stumbled when he took his acceleration phase.”The Australians were in the top three positions and set to make the final before Browning’s fall.
“I’m so sorry to these boys and everyone at home. I just caught my toe and slipped. Like I said, [it has] never happened at training or races.”Elsewhere, the gold rush continued on the track, with“That was absolutely breathtaking,”Montag paced herself brilliantly throughout the walk and then picked up the pace in the latter stages of the race to get in a comfortable position.
So comfortable that Montag could start celebrating well before she crossed the finish line for gold with a time of 42:34:00 — a new personal best and Commonwealth Games record.Jemima Montag of Team Australia celebrates after wining the gold medal. “You just sort of pretend everyone’s clapping for you, even if they’re clapping for the high jump or the hammer throwers walking in and anytime there’s self-doubt, it really gives you a boost.
“I feel like I’m continuing the legacy of really strong Australian race walking and to go back-to-back, winning on the Gold Coast four years ago really changed my life. I didn’t think that at the time but I think with hindsight it did, it set in that self-belief. I have big dreams for two more Olympic games. So today was special moment.
In the end though she missed three attempts at 1.95m, the top result set by Jamaica’s Lamara Distin, who won gold with Patterson taking the silver medal.“It could be a few weeks and if I jumped today it was possible to be a nine-month injury,” the 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist told
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