Bahraini Winfred Yavi was on Tuesday declared the Olympic champion of the 3,000 m steeplechase in a final featured Alice Finot.
The Frenchwoman, fourth, broke the European record (8:58.67), but that was not her highlight of the night. After the race he approached the stands area where his team and his family were and knelt on the ground.
really, She took advantage of the unparalleled setting of the Olympic Games in Paris to propose to her boyfriendwhich he accepted without hesitation to the massive applause of the public that erupted in the Stade de France.
Finot, 33, has experienced meteoric progression over the past three years and broke the symbolic barrier of nine minutes in the discipline for the first time, and at the same time usurped the European record held since 2008 by Russian Gulnara Samitova (. 8:58.81).
Source: La Verdad
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