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United States’ Tori Bowie
celebrates after winning the
Women’s 100 meters final
during the World Athletics
Championships in London
Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017.
Associated Press
Bowie gets

gold, and
Jamaica fails

to medal
in the 100

By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
LONDON (AP) — The Amer-
ican sprinter took a mighty
tumble. Nobody, however,
has fallen harder than Ja-
maica so far at this year’s
world championships.
The evening after Usain
Bolt’s improbable loss to
a pair of U.S. runners, the
world’s best sprint island
watched the red, white
and blue paraded around
the track once again at its
expense.
Tori Bowie leaned over
the line for her 100-me-
ter victory, then stumbled
and crashed down to the
track to put the exclama-
tion point on the second
straight sprint shock of the
meet. Her .01-second vic-
tory Sunday over Marie-
Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory
Coast was a photo-finish
thriller. The fact that the
defending Olympic cham- Hideki Matsuyama wins WGC-Bridgestone
pion and the most domi-
nant female sprinter of Hideki Matsuyama, from Japan, tips his hat as he walks to the 18th green during the
2017, Elaine Thompson of final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at Firestone Country Club,
Jamaica, finished fifth was Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, in Akron, Ohio. Matsuyama finished the tournament at 16-under
every bit as stunning. par. Associated Press
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