Keely Hodgkinson wins Britain’s first athletics gold at Paris Olympics with victory in 800m
https://news.sky.com/story/keely-hodgkinson-wins-britains-first-athletics-gold-at-paris-olympics-with-victory-in-800m-13191477
by bickering_fool
Keely Hodgkinson wins Britain’s first athletics gold at Paris Olympics with victory in 800m
https://news.sky.com/story/keely-hodgkinson-wins-britains-first-athletics-gold-at-paris-olympics-with-victory-in-800m-13191477
by bickering_fool
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Bit of good news for a change. We’ll done.
That was impressive, won with the handbrake still lightly applied!
Absolutely incredible. Pretty much led from start to finish. Dominant!
That was unbelievably straightforward. It’s like the other runners thought for a while that they could challenge her, she said “nah” and just added 5% more speed. She’s just too superior to the rest of the field, think she could’ve gone faster if she needed too. Truly a phenomenon.
I kept thinking she was going to run out of steam and get passed, love being happily wrong.
completely dominant, she seemed in control the whole way. If anyone tried anything, she had it in hand
A truly wonderful performance. She made it look so easy because she has worked so hard and planned for this race. She’s 23 and has many years of top competition ahead.
She’s so good and just seems such a lovely young lady. Great race.
It’s not often Britain get a track and field athlete who just has an aura of greatness around them. Keely absolutely has that, from the unassuming pose in her introduction to the way she ran the race to the way she just accelerated away from the field in the final straight.
Her next challenge is to break 1:54, which I think she can definitely do. Can she challenge that old, likely drug-fuelled world record? Maybe.
I love the way she raced. Straight to the front and then just got faster and faster until she was clear.
Made it look so straightforward, absolutely incredible!
The way the commentators were crowning her before the race made me nervous. She did great and made it look easy.
Ive never been a big watcher of athletics, but these middle distances races have been really fun to watch.
She buried the field. Great race. Took no prisoners.
What a star. Only 22, she could dominate for the next two Olympics!
An utterly dominant performance. She had energy in reserve. Well done Keely.