At the training grounds, fellow teammates showed their love and support for Eriksen by presenting him with his No.24 Jersey set for the new season.
Korir, whose specialty lies in the 400m, stormed past Australian Peter Bol with 350 meters to stay clear from the rest of the park and claim gold, the fourth straight at the Olympics.
For the first time in decades, Team USA's men's relay team failed to proceed to the finals. The team made up of Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker and Cravon Gillespie finished sixth in its preliminary heat of men's 4x100m race.
On August 3rd 2021, recently crowned fastest woman in the world and 100M Gold Medalist, Elaine Thompson-Herah tweeted that she had been blocked for posting videos of her victorious 100 and 200 meters races
Korir who had a disappointing start to his medal quest took control of the race with Rotich unusually running from behind.
After a push and shove in the first 350m, Korir decided to take matters into his own hands, ensuring that he was not bullied by the rest of the field.
World record holder Beatrice Chepkoech (9:16:33) meanwhile failed to rise to the occasion once again as she finished seventh in the race that had so many surprises.
Kipyegon who became a mother in 2018, wants to be the first Kenyan woman to successfully defend gold in the distance.
Christine Mboma gave a sterling performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics emerging second in the women's 200-metre final.
Chepkoech is the current world record holder in the distance while Kiyeng is the olympic silver medalist from Rio 2016.
In 2012, London and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro Kenya had David Rudisha and he did not disappoint, this time round it will be Emmanuel Korir and Ferguson Rotich on the track to try and maintain what could be a dominance in the race.
The devastating performance in the 3000m steeplechase left many Kenyans wondering where the rain started beating them and still there has been no answer to that.
It was a major setback early this morning when Commonwealth gold medalist winner Julius Yego failed to proceed past the qualification stages
The Jamaican clocked 21.53 seconds to win the 200m final to finish ahead of Namibia's Christine Mboma who took silver in 21.81sec and USA's Gabby Thomas took bronze in 21.87sec.
Kimeli won Heat one in 13:38:87 ahead of Canada's Mohammed Ahmed(13:38.96) while William Kincaid of the United States (13:39.04) was third. Uganda's Oscar Chelimo (13:39.07) and Bahrain's Birhanu Balew (13:41.62) sealed the other automatic qualifying positions.
The sprinter has now been granted a humanitarian visa by Poland.
An extended period on the sidelines meant that she was either coming out a better athlete or she would just call it quits, she chose the former.
Cheruiyot who was a late inclusion to the Kenyan Olympic team to Tokyo, replacing youngster Kamar Etyang, finished second in heat 1 in a time of 3 minutes 36.01 seconds, just behind winner Ishmael Debjani of Belgium who clocked 3:36.00.
The long drought for Team Kenya was finally broken when Benjamin Kigen and Hellen Obiri won bronze and silver medals respectively.
Rotich and Korir will now compete in the final set for Wednesday as they seek to defend the title won by David Rudisha
For now, the 28 year old still remains hopeful as Team Kenya has since lodged an appeal for one of their main men in the 100m as they suspect there might have possibly been contamination in Otieno’s sample.
