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USA's Cole Hocker celebrates winning the Men's 1500m Final at the Stade de France. Alamy Stock Photo

Huge upset in Olympic 1,500m men's final as Jakob Ingebrigtsen out of the medals

Meanwhile, American Gabby Thomas won the women’s 200m sprint.

AMERICAN COLE Hocker produced a devastating finish in the home straight for an upset victory in the men’s Olympic 1500m in Paris tonight. 

Hocker outsprinted defending champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway and Britain’s world champion Josh Kerr to take gold in an Olympic record of 3:27.65.

Kerr bagged silver in a national record of 3:27.79, while Ingebrigtsen came fourth after being passed by another American, Yared Nuguse, who clocked a personal best of 3:27.80.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe, who himself won two Olympic 1500m golds for Britain, had predicted that the final could be a “race for the ages” notably given the ever-increasing public rivalry between Ingebrigtsen and Kerr.

And so it proved, but not quite as Coe had foreseen as the unfancied Hocker stole the show with his late surge.

Kenya’s Brian Komen briefly held the lead in front of a 69,000-capacity crowd at the Stade de France before the Norwegian shot to the front of the pack at a cracking pace.

The field went through the opening 400 metres in 54.82sec, Kerr sat in third on Komen’s shoulder and alongside Kenya’s Timothy Cheriuyot, the 2019 world champion and silver medallist at the Tokyo Games three years ago.

Ingebrigtsen surged just after the 800m mark, but Cheruiyot kept with him.

At the bell for the last lap, the pack had split into single file.

Kerr made his move at 600m, tracking Ingebrigtsen and pulling close as they came into the home straight.

Kerr kicked, but suddenly Hocker appeared on the inside to deliver a super finishing kick for a fantastic Olympic victory that no one, not least Coe, had predicted.

200m women’s final

Earlier in the evening, Gabby Thomas stormed to a brilliant victory in the women’s Olympic 200m to clinch the first major title of her career.

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Thomas clocked 21.83 to win ahead of St. Lucia’s new 100m champion Julien Alfred, who timed 22.08. Thomas’ teammate Brittany Brown claimed bronze in 22.2.

Thomas, 27, a bronze medallist at the Tokyo Games three years ago, is the first American woman to win an Olympic short sprint title since childhood idol Allyson Felix won the 200m at the 2012 London Games.

St. Lucia’s Alfred had been hoping to clinch an Olympic sprint double after her dazzling win in the 100m on Saturday.

But Thomas, the fastest woman in the world this year over this distance, was in no mood to let her date with destiny slip. 

The Harvard-educated sprinter exploded out of the blocks and ran a superb bend to open up a sizeable lead coming into the home straight.

The American’s strength and finishing power never looked like waning as she powered over the line to claim a deserved gold.

There was more hammer throw joy for Canada as world champion Camryn Rogers won the women’s competition with 76.97 metres.

Her victory came just 48 hours after teammate and fellow world champ Ethan Katzberg secured the men’s hammer gold. The pair embraced trackside, Rogers draped in a Canadian flag.

There was no surprise in the men’s long jump as multiple global medallist Miltiadis Tentoglou retained the men’s Olympic long jump title.

Tentoglou managed a best of 8.48 metres for his second gold, having also won at the Tokyo Games three years ago.

Jamaica’s Wayne Pinnock took silver with 8.36m while Italy’s Mattia Furlani claimed bronze, just 2cm adrift.

There was a second Olympic record on the night as Bahrain’s world champion Winfred Yavi won the women’s 3000m steeplechase in 8min 52.76sec.

Uganda’s defending champion Peruth Chemutai took silver in a national record of 8:53.34 and Kenya’s Faith Cherotich claimed bronze in 8:55.15.

American reigning champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol of the Netherlands set up a mouth-watering final in the women’s 400m hurdles.

The in-form pair each won their semi-finals to advance to the final scheduled for 7.25pm on Thursday.

It also means Bol remains on course in her audacious bid for treble gold, having already anchored the Dutch quartet to 4x400m mixed relay glory. Her third event will be the women’s 4x400m relay.

– © AFP 2024

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:03 AM

    The health service isn’t “overlooked”. It’s just terribly ran and inefficient.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 2:57 PM

    @Seán Ó hAnnracháin: Agree the Irish Health Service consumes 11% of our GDP v 9% average for other EU countries. Transparency needed on unit production. How many total manhours per procedure (direct and all indirect) v international benchmarks? Please publish.
    - 2 Tier Irish Health System is obscene.
    - Belfast buses from West Cork for cataract operations.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:03 AM

    Tidal wave of health and mental issue s will follow.
    The worse is yet to come.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:19 AM

    ‘Overlooked’ as in intentionally underfunded to scare people into the arrms of private health insurance companies.

    “That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital” – Noam Chomsky

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:34 AM

    @The Risen: Funding has increased by 1/5 over the past 5 years, so the HSE is definitely not being “underunded”, but epically mis-managed. But don’t let facts get in the way of your little rants.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:36 AM

    @The Risen: it’s a thought but I don’t really think so there are a lot off buffoons in charge

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:46 AM

    @The Risen: nothing underfunded about our health service… It’s run by a bunch of interest groups who are more concerned with their share rather than the health of the nation. Top heavy management that wasn’t thinned out in the move from Health Boards to the HSE maintains the lack of value and continuing inefficiency of any investment. Hospitals owned or managed by “patrons” despite being funded and developed by the state limit the mobility and efficiency of trained staff. Working practices designed to ensure as much staff as possible are paid at higher levels and a ridiculous consultant contract all contribute to ensure that any individual procedure actually costs more than the equivalent in a private setting, any of the double jobbing consultants will confirm this.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 1:53 PM

    @The Risen: You say this because the HSE SHOULD BE a leftists’ wet dream – a big public sector (union dominated) organisation running our health system for the benefit of the public. But it’s a disaster. But that’s ok, because just blame the mean Gov or those evil capitalists. Hate to burst your bubble, but the HSE is the way it is because it is dominated by public sector vested interests (i.e Unions). There is no real accountability. There is no desire from within for change and any significant change is fought tooth nail because the status quo suits the special interests (i.e PS unions)- they’ve carved it out this way. At least if you’re paying for a service, the provider has an interest in providing you a good service. The HSE bureaucrat has no such interest, they are paid regardless.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 11:09 AM

    All future governments will tie up the banking crisis borrowings with loans from Covid and will blame “Covid” for everything for years to come.

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    Jan 31st 2021, 1:03 PM

    What health service as its near impossible to even see a GP these days

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