thank you. we go celebrate! olympic values, indeed. earlier this monday puerto rico celebrating a truly golden moment. this after winning the women s 100-meter hurdles. time of 12.37 seconds. claiming the first medal of the games for puerto rico. and this historic moment for greek sport. and the golden jumper. it was on a tie break due to a longer second best jump. it s greece s first ever medal in the men s long jump. so a bit of special history for them. so many incredible moments. it seems the games can t quite divorce themselves from global politics. what more can you tell us about
more beautiful. thank you. we go celebrate. wonderful story, isn t it? well a short while ago, i can tell you that puerto rico jasmine celebrating a golden moment. this after winning the women s 100 meter hurdles in a time of 12.37. she claimed puerto rico s first medal of the olympics and second ever track and field medal. the united states kendra harrison earning silver and i want to squeeze this in. it s historic. the greek sport, the men winning the long jump, and juan miguel hechavaria, winning and i mention it was historic. it s greece s first ever medal in the men s long jump.
just glad that i am the person to do it. tom mcewen has won that silver in the individual eventing final within the individual eventing final within the last half an hour. it was a near perfect performance on his horse. a superb final round from the german raider was enough to take the gold medal. a couple of errors by oliver townend pushed him out of the medal positions. there was an incredible moment of olympic spirit yesterday, as the high jump final ended with both qatar s mutaz essa barshim and italy s gianmarco tamberi both sharing the gold medals. after two hours, the pair couldn t be split, having recorded best clearances of 2.37 metres. they had the option of a jump off but amazingly agreed
as an incredible highjump final ended with the gold medal shared between two athletes. after an exhausting two hour competition qatar s mutaz essa barshim and italy s gianmarco tamberi couldn t be split as they both cleared 2.37 metres. both were offered an opportunity to take part in a jump off, but in a moment of sportsmanship decided to share the title, sparking huge celebrations. it s the firstjoint olympic podium in athletics since 1912. and venezuela s yulimar rojas set a new world record the first time that s happened at these games in athletics as she won olympic gold in the triplejump. a silver medallist in rio five years ago, rojasjumped 15.67 metres, smashing the previous record of 15 and a half metres. the four time olympic champion simone biles has withdrawn from monday s floor final at the olympics, but is yet to make a decision on whether she ll compete in the beam final on tuesday. she s withrdrawn from all previous events to focus
in the men s highjump as gianmarco tamberi shared gold with qatar s mutaz essa barshim. they couldn t be split having recorded best clearances of 2.37 metres. they were offered a jump off, but in a moment of sportsmanship agreed to share the title. it s the firstjoint olympic podium in athletics since 1912. venezuela s two time world champion yulimar rojas set a new world record as she won olympic gold in the women s triple jump. it measured 15.67 metres, smashing the previous best of 15.50m set by ukraine s inessa kravets in 1995. it s the south american country s first gold of this games and just the fourth in its history. swimmer duncan scott has become the first british athlete to win four medals at a single games. he now has a gold and three silvers, after the men s 4x100 metres medley relay team finished second behind the united states. the americans broke the world record to win it.