Oympics-Triathlon-Dominant Duffy wins famous gold for Bermuda
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Triathlon - Women s Olympic Distance - Final - Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo, Japan July 27, 2021. Flora Duffy of Bermuda celebrates victory. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
July 27, 2021
By Mitch Phillips
TOKYO (Reuters) – Flora Duffy achieved instant national hero status when she won Bermuda’s first Olympic gold medal on Tuesday after delivering a dominant run leg for an emphatic victory in the women’s triathlon on a stormy Tokyo course.
Duffy, 33, was part of a group of seven who broke clear at the start of the 40km bike but then stamped her authority on the race with a fantastic performance over the 10km run to finish in one hour, 55.36 minutes.
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Gold medal winner Flora Duffy of Bermuda (center) celebrates her win in the triathlon on Tuesday, next to silver medalist Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain. David Goldman/AP
TOKYO With a population of just 63,000, Bermuda has become the smallest nation or territory to win an Olympic gold medal.
On a drizzly morning in Tokyo, Flora Duffy, 33, clinched the victory for the British island territory in women s individual triathlon – a grueling race made up of open-water swimming for nearly a mile, biking almost 25 miles and running 4.6 miles. Flora Duffy was already Bermuda s golden girl before she set off on the Olympic women s triathlon tonight, but she is now simply solid gold after destroying a world-class field in Tokyo, local newspaper
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By Mitch Phillips
TOKYO (Reuters) â Flora Duffy has already been awarded an OBE for services to Bermudan sport and now, having added the countryâs first Olympic gold medal to her sparkling CV, she will hope things pan out better than for the islandâs only other Games medallist.
After collecting a heavyweight boxing bronze in 1976 Clarence Hillâs life spiralled downwards into drugs and he eventually served jail time for dugs offences and armed robbery.
Duffy, it is safe to assume, is destined for better things and has already been feted on Twitter by the countryâs Premier David Burt after her superb victory in Tuesdayâs Olympic triathlon.
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TOKYO With a population of just 63,000, Bermuda has become the smallest nation or territory to win an Olympic gold medal.
On a drizzly morning in Tokyo, Flora Duffy, 33, clinched the victory for the British island territory in women s individual triathlon – a grueling race made up of open-water swimming for nearly a mile, biking almost 25 miles and running 4.6 miles. Flora Duffy was already Bermuda s golden girl before she set off on the Olympic women s triathlon tonight, but she is now simply solid gold after destroying a world-class field in Tokyo, local newspaper
Duffy is one of two Bermudian athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics. The remote set of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is more than 600 miles from the closest land mass.
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