Whenever Daryl Netta has free time, she often watches videos of herself running in a loop. The process can take hours as she plays, pauses and rewinds footage on her phone, scanning for clues like a forensic scientist in the hope that it will help her organize the perfect match. Sadly, after a dramatic and heartbreaking night in Rome, she is still waiting.
It’s painful enough that Netta’s bubbly personality has made her one of the most popular members of Team GB and she is the favorite for the 200m event. She lost the gold medal by 0.01 seconds. But the final heartbreak came when she crossed the finish line thinking she had won – only to find out that Swiss athlete Mujinga Kambundji had beaten her in a photo-op time of 22.49 seconds.
“To be honest, I’m really disappointed,” said Netta, who had to settle for silver. “I knew how much I deserved. I thought it was close, I could feel myself going down, but it wasn’t my strongest thing.
Neta, who has won individual bronze medals at the European Championships and Commonwealth Games, praised Kambungi after the match. But she knew she was missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “I feel uncomfortable with myself because I’m here for the gold medal,” she said.
The penultimate night saw another medal for Team GB, with Megan Keith taking bronze in her third 10,000m race. It’s something of a show, especially since the 22-year-old student from Inverness has been reluctant to ascend from 5,000m because she finds the activity boring.
But in a race where the pace slowed rapidly, forcing her fellow Britons Jessica Judd-Warner and Ellish McColgan to withdraw, Keith persevered. She even gamely took the lead with five laps to go, but had no reaction when Italy’s Nadia Battocletti won the 5,000m in 30 minutes, 51.32 seconds. .
“I’m really happy,” said Keith, who got home at 31:04.77. “I tried a brighter color, but you can’t be happy with bronze. I just soaked it all up.
Asked about her “rather boring” comments about the 10,000m in March, she said: “I insist it’s monotonous. You have to zone out but also stay very focused. I’m still practicing that. But I don’t I don’t think it’s boring, it’s just a new challenge.
It was also a night when many Olympic and world champions laid milestones on the eve of the Paris Olympics. Everywhere you look, records are being toppled, accompanied by gasps of surprise and awe.
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In the men’s 400m hurdles, Norway’s Carsten Warholm broke the European Championship record with a time of 46.98 seconds, more than half a second ahead of Italy’s Alessandro Siblio. How did Femke Bol react in the women’s 400m hurdles? Breaking the championship record by 2 seconds with a best time of 52.49.
In the men’s triple jump, Spain’s Jordan Díaz Fortun jumped 18.18m (the third longest distance in history), trailing only Jonathan Edwards, who held the world record for 29 years. The record was 11 centimeters and won the gold medal. Another championship record.
But the biggest cheer on this wonderful night in Rome came when Gianmarco Tamberi soared over 2.37m to win the high jump title in front of an adoring home crowd, sharing a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics .
