on the top mark kenya's david rudisha sets the first track and field world record at the london games with victory in the men's eight hundred meters. so let's go straight to london where russia has moved up to fourth in the overall medals table thanks to let it be over who became russia's first ever olympic women's wrestling champion the twenty one year old clinched victory in the seventy two kilogram category after reducing the performance of her life to be a vastly experienced. a little area is deemed a five time world champion but gold is russia's twelfth of these olympics also teams so just in the wrong city and wrong this came as a surprise in the men's double canoe a sport in which the country rarely schilling's where alexei pushkov be a part of work in the final spot on the podium gold went to germany where champions the roost and so. we wanted to produce the best results we possibly could we weren't looking around to see who was in front of us and who was behind us we were just concentrating on doing what we had to do we had been working really hard for the last year or so and

one minute forty point nine one seconds david rudisha set a new world record in the main street hundred meters. and sprain two same bolt retains his two hundred meter title. and we're aware made that podium just to make. to the london games first where russia has moved up to fourth place thanks to mary a very pos victor in the women's wrestling she won the gold in the seventy two category to become the first ever russian female olympic wrestling champion there also to silver and bronze on day thirteen for russia his richard put. russia continue their steady progress of these olympics of a gold two silvers and a bronze to show for very often some day thirteen however things could've been so much different having have a little bit more skill and a little bit more luck on their side i want to tell you about the other one gold in the women's wrestling seventy two kilogram category which is only twenty one years old and produce a performance beyond her years to be the vastly experienced from bulgaria who was actually a fine time world champion so it looks as though natalia has a bright futur

one minute forty point nine one seconds scan in david rudisha sets a new world record in the main states hundred makes is. and king all the spring just same bold retains his two hundred meter olympic title competitors film blake and water where the podium just jamaican. to the london games first where russia has moved up to the fourth place thanks to wherever a bit was victory in the women's wrestling she won the gold in the under seventy two kilogram category to become the first ever russian female olympic wrestling champ and there were also two silver and bronze on day thirteen for russia here's richard profit. russia continue their steady progress of these olympics of a gold two silvers and a bronze to show for their efforts on day thirteen however things could've been so much different having had a little bit more skill and a little bit more luck on their side i want to tell you about the other one gold in the women's wrestling seventy two kilogram category which is only twenty one years old and produced almost beyond her years to be the vastly experienced from bulgaria who was actua

and then my personal favorite, david rudisha. usain bolt is incredible. test 800 meter runner in history. broke his own world record in the final. seven of the runners in that race had personal bests and david rudisha crushed them. >> talk about women and how they're medaling and overall u.s. medals. both incredible story lines. >> the u.s. is doing phenomenally well. they're going to win the medal count going away because of the great weekend we've had. but if you look at the women for the u.s., that really has been the story. 27 of 31 gold medals for the u.s. have been won by women. the first time u.s. women have out-medaled u.s. men. on the 40th anniversary of title ix you can see the fruits that female participation in sports are paying here. >> an amazing year. not only for the united states. you're saying for women and team usa. thank you so much, rob, appreciate your time today. great stuff over there at nbc sports. that wraps up our special early edition of "weekends with alex witt". i'm richard liu. i'll see you 20:0 eastern. up next, free style w

first world record of a flat six olympic championships came in the men's eight hundred meters david rudisha became the first human being to run the distance and one minute and forty one seconds they can run a favorite in the final and set a blistering pace from the start and went on to smash world's best achievement by exactly one tenth of a second edition loken incredible time of one minute forty point nine one seconds the race was so quick the ball eight finalists sat so best season times seventeen year old marge imus of its won it came second or so while another can intimidate the two completed the forty. thanks. to the mean time the hard and separated names two hundred metres final so no world record but the winner was similarly known even before the race defending champion the same ball won the event with a time of nineteen point eight two seconds to escape rival blake finished second losing by twelve hundreds compared to warren where claimed braun's the jamaican super sprinter is now a five time olympic champion was now worth exploring what i came here for to show the world that i am

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