It took 33 years to eclipse Florence Griffith Joyner’s Olympic record in the women’s 100 metres as Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah pulled off the unthinkable and broke the long-standing mark in Tokyo in a largely empty Olympic Stadium.
Indeed, even as the coronavirus pandemic kept spectators away from the Olympic stadiums, records tumbled throughout the 16 days of competition.
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