Tori Bowie makes it an American 100m title sweep at worlds
Jamaican favourite Elaine Thompson finishes 5th
With Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson in the 100 metres, it was supposed to be double sprint gold for Jamaica by now. Instead, it's the United States that leads 2-0 at the world championships.
With a desperate final lunge on Sunday, Tori Bowie dipped at the line to edge Marie-Josee Ta Lou by .01 seconds and win in 10.85.
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Once across and off balance, the American sprinter fell onto the track and didn't have a clue who had won.
"The dive doesn't feel too good now," said Bowie, who added gold to her Olympic silver from last year. "I never give up until I am over the line."
Dafne Schippers, the 2015 world champion in the 200, took bronze in 10.96.
Thompson, the Olympic champion from last year, came into the race as a big favourite. Sporting a flower bow in her headband and purple lipstick to stand out, she was never a factor and finished fifth in 10.98.
"I didn't execute my race, which is a shame, but I'm healthy," Thompson said. "I don't know what went wrong."
On Saturday, Justin Gatlin won the men's 100, beating Bolt.
In the Olympic Stadium, Bolt got the early cheers in the evening session. Gatlin got the boos — again.
At the medal ceremony for Saturday's 100 metres, Bolt received massive applause for his bronze medal and American silver medallist Christian Coleman was also warmly greeted by the crowd of about 60,000 spectators.
However, when Gatlin came up to receive his gold medal from IAAF President Sebastian Coe, the derisive booing returned but there was also a smattering of applause — some of it from Bolt. The negative intensity didn't quite reach the peaks of the previous days when Gatlin ran.
With his doping past — his suspension ended in 2010 — the American has long been portrayed as the bad guy set against Bolt's charismatic, fun-loving personality.