that s unheard of. world records are typically broken by hundreds of a second. so it was an impressive, impressive performance. in the womens competitionm jamaican sprinter elaine thompson herah also sealed her place among the immortals winning the 200m. it s her second gold of the games, she also won the 100m making it a double . she peformed the same feat five year ago in rio which makes it a double double. elaine thompson herah is the first woman ever to do that in two successive games. the bbc spoke earlier to veronica campbell brown a jamaican sprinter who is herself an eight time olympic medalist. elaine had struggled with the injury for a while and her achilles is now better and her confidence is boosted and she is doing so well in the 100 metre and she took the momentum over to do the 200 metres but it all comes back to her preparation but
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had been picked up by the post. solve hit a double the first time out. how many people have you heard of who become giants of journalism just by sending a piece to a magazine like the new republic. that s what charles did. then i went through another stage. i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale. i joined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he mentioned the third speech writer had quit. i thought well, i might be interested. i said well, maybe i could apply. he said okay. so he gave me the to jim johnson. jim johnson was the chief of staff to mondale. interviewed me and of course the first question is can
post. solve hit a double the first time out. how many people have you heard of who become giants of journalism just by sending a piece to a magazine like the new republic. that s what charles did. then i went through another stage. i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale. i joined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he mentioned the third speech writer had quit. i thought well, i might be interested. i said well, maybe i could apply. he said okay. so he gave me the to jim johnson. jim johnson was the chief of staff to mondale. interviewed me and of course the first question is can