In Pictures: Rio 2016 Olympics day ten

Sport360 staff 08:15 16/08/2016
It was another busy day in Brazil.

David Rudisha sealed a historic Olympic 800m double as Shaunae Miller’s audacious dive and Thiago Braz da Silva’s pole vault gold for Brazil lit up a wet Monday night in Rio.

Kenya’s Rudisha was all class in a smooth 800m victory which made him the first man since New Zealand’s Peter Snell in 1964 to win the event at consecutive Olympics.

But Rudisha was soon upstaged by the Bahamas’ Miller, who threw herself head-first across the line to snatch victory from flummoxed American favourite Allyson Felix.

Miller remained lying on the track for some time after her unconventional dive, which followed a similar lunge across the line by Brazil’s Joao Vitor de Oliveira to qualify from his 110m hurdles heats.

Earlier, a wobble on the balance beam ended Simone Biles’ bid for a record five gymnastics gold medals, and Rio had its latest safety scare when a giant suspended TV camera plunged to the ground, slightly injuring seven.

Gymnast Biles was confident of claiming her fourth Rio win and move into position for an unprecedented fifth on the last day of the competition on Tuesday. But the tiny Texan wobbled badly on the balance beam when landing a forward somersault and had to put both hands down for support.

At the velodrome, Elia Viviani recovered from a mid-race crash to beat celebrated British sprinter Mark Cavendish in the men’s omnium.

Also on Monday, Kenyan-born Ruth Jebet won Bahrain’s first ever Olympic gold when she claimed the women’s 3000m steeplechase, and Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk broke her own world record en route to the women’s hammer title.

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