Elaine Thompson, Jamaica’s Olympic champion, was beaten by Tori Bowie, the US athlete who had finished second behind her in Rio last year. Bowie pipped Marie-Josée Ta Lou, from Cote d’Ivoire, with a dive across the line. Her winning time was 10.85sec and Ta Lou was less than a single hundredth of a second behind her. She seemed to tighten up as she tried to chase down Ta Lou, two lanes over. Ta Lou led until the very final strides, when Bowie, gaining all the while, threw herself in a dive over the line and off her feet.

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2017 21:21 UTC