Pole vaulter Katie Nageotte a clear winner on otherwise disappointing day

He didn’t. Norman finished fourth as Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas took gold. The US men’s sprinters, once the dominant power across the global track game, left the stadium without having won a single gold medal over the first seven days of the nine-day meet. But Nageotte’s gold, won in a tense back-and-forth with Russian athlete Anzhelika Sidorova, was the third victory in the field for the US, two of which have been won by women. Nageotte is 30, but fairly new to the major international stage. She’s now on a list with Jenn Suhr and Stacy Dragila as American Olympic champions in pole vault. It was so close to not happening. Nageotte, who battled COVID-19 earlier in the year only to return and go viral when she cleared a personal best (4.95 meters) to win the Olympic trials, said she felt tightness in her leg during warmups. She opened her evening with two straight misses at the first height, 4.5 meters.“I know my family got up very early to watch and I would have felt very bad if I’d made them get up at 6 in the morning to watch me no-height,” she said. “So that was definitely going through my head.”Facing elimination, she cleared the height on the third try and jumped for joy. Much later, after she cleared 4.9 and Sidorova missed, Nageotte ran into the stands for hugs, and shared congratulations with her competitors on the track. Then, she taped up the pole, had the bar set at 5.01 and geared up for a chance at a new US record. She took off down the runway but pulled up short. She could not focus, given what she’d just been through.“The emotion of winning,” she explained. Grant Holloway, the defending world champion who came .01 seconds short of the world record earlier this summer in the 110-meter hurdles, came .05 short of Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment, who won in 13.09. It was Jamaica’s third Olympic gold medal of the post-Usain Bolt era. Will Claye, considered as good a bet as any to win with the defending champion, Christian Taylor, on the sideline, finished fourth in triple jump. The winner: Pedro Pichardo of Portugal. Other winners on a day when eight gold medals were awarded included Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium (heptathlon) and Damian Warner of Canada (decathlon). Also, Massimo Stano won the 20-kilometer race walk, moved to Sapporo to try to beat the Tokyo heat, to give Italy its third gold medal in track. The US closed Thursday with five — and 20 medals overall, which is 13 more than anyone else — and there have been some exceptions to the trends. Athing Mu and Sydney McLaughlin lived up to their hype to capture the country’s only two golds from the track. Much earlier in the day came a rite of passage for the US at the Olympics: A debacle in the men’s 4x100 relay. This time, it was Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker who got tangled up in an exchange, costing them precious time and leaving the US not with a “DQ,” but with an unsightly “6” by its name. Sixth place means they won’t get to run for the first relay gold since Bolt left the scene.


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