She is the first American winner at the distance since 1968.
Mu led as the field broke from their lanes into the backstretch. She set a strong but not crazy-fast pace, covering the first lap in 57.82, with the rest of the field in close pursuit. Mu opened a slightly larger lead with less than 300 meters to go, but still ran controlled.
“I don’t want to leave anything up to chance,” she said about her front running. “I don’t want to get into a race and not do what I can and mess up my chances of meeting my goals.” “There was a split second in the race where it’s like, ‘You should try to go because you can get a medal,’” Rogers said about her furious finish.Mu and Rogers produced the best U.S. finish ever in a women’s Olympic 800. Besides Manning Mims, the only other American woman to medal in the Games before today was Kim Gallagher, who won silver in 1984 and bronze in 1988. Counting women’s and men’s races, today’s two medals was the best American showing since three U.S.
Perhaps the only sign that Mu isn’t a veteran of world-class competition was her running on the outside of lane 1 for most of the last 600 meters. Theoretically, someone running a shorter distance could have passed her on the inside. Then again, Mu was so clearly superior to the rest of the field that she could afford less-than-perfect tactics.
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