What wise counsel did last night bring us? Well, that the Belgian Cats are in shape and that the Olympic Games are over for Fanny Lecluyse and Elke Vanhoof.
Watch the highlights of night 8
1. Basketball: Belgian Cats almost certain of the quarterfinals after an easy win against Puerto Rico
The Belgian Cats also won their second group match at the Olympics. After the stunt against Australia, the Belgian women booked a logical and large victory against weak brother Puerto Rico: 87-52. With this victory, it must already go wrong not to make it to the quarterfinals.
Belgian Cats beat Puerto Rico: “87-52 with a happy face”
Beautiful attack from the Cats: “Everything she sees”
2. BMX: Route of Elke Vanhoof ends in the semi-finals
The Olympic adventure of Elke Vanhoof has come to a halt in the semi-finals of the BMX. In the first run, our compatriot was able to take advantage of a series of falls, she finished third. Vanhoof couldn’t hold on to that lead and finished 6th in her heat. Only the top 4 are allowed to go to the final.
Elke Vanhoof not to final: “Unfortunately over and out”
3. BMX: Outgoing Olympic Champion Crashes and Must Be Removed
Connor Fields, the Olympic BMX champion of Rio, has been transported on a stretcher after a heavy fall in the semifinals. Fields was involved in a first turn collision of his third run. Thanks to his results in the first two runs, he was already certain of a place in the final, but he had to miss the final.
4. BMX: Dutchman Kimmann takes gold with a torn knee
Niek Kimmann became Olympic BMX champion. The 25-year-old Dutchman kept the British Whyte and the Colombian Ramirez behind. You remember Kimmann from a fall earlier this week, when he crashed into an absent-minded official during a training session on the track and suffered a tear in his knee.
Kimmann is Olympic BMX champion: “No, this is not possible!”
5. Swimming: Fanny Lecluyse 8th in the 200m breaststroke final
Fanny Lecluyse concluded her Olympics with eighth place in the 200m breaststroke. After a very strong start, the 29-year-old was more than a second above her BR with 2’24’57. The victory went to South African Tatjana Schoenmaker, who swam a fantastic world record.
Fanny Lecluyse is 8th in the final, Shoemaker swims world record
