Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Athletics - Women's 5000m - Final - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - August 2, 2021. Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands celebrates winning the gold medal REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sifan Hassan bagged the first of what she hopes will be an unprecedented hat-trick of track golds while Kenya's astonishing run of victories in the men's steeplechase ended as boiling sun gave way to torrential rain at the Olympic athletics on Monday.
The conditions caused a delay to the field events, Valarie Allman eventually winning the women's discus with her opening throw - an unlikely source for the United States' first athletics gold of the Games.
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