Rio Recap: D'Agostino's Sportsmanship Highlights a Busy Day 11 for the #IviesinRio
- mcmoore27
- Aug 17, 2016
- 2 min read
Track & Field
Abbey D'Agostino (Dartmouth '14) stole the show on Tuesday for reasons that go far beyond the Olympics, or even sports in general. D'Agostino was inadvertently tripped during her heat of the women's 5K. Not only did she help her opponent up and urge her to finish the race, but D'Agostino also fought through injury to cross the finish line herself. Her act of class and sportsmanship was recognized world-wide. After a protest lodged by Team USA, D'Agostino was advanced to the final due to the trip.
D'Agostino was not the only Ivy moving on in their event. Cornell's Bruno Hortelano-Roig ('14), competing for Spain, won his heat in the 200m with a personal best time of 20.12 to automatically advance to the semifinals. Hortelano-Roig's time was second-best among the 10 preliminary heats, trailing only Andre De Grasse of Canada (20.09). The 200m semifinals will take place on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.
Finally, Princeton assistant coach Robby Andrews was third in his 1,500m heat and moved on to the semifinals thanks to his time of 3:46.97. He will next compete Friday at 7:45pm ET.
Women's Soccer Princeton alum Diana Matheson ('08) and Team Canada will have to win their next game to come away with a medal, as they fell in the semifinals to Germany, 2-0. The Canadians will look to earn their second-straight Bronze medal when they take on Brazil on Friday at noon. Matheson netted the gamewinner in 2012 that gave Team Canada the Bronze. Sailing Louisa Chafee (Brown '14) finished in eighth place in the Nacra 17 event for U.S. Sailing. Chafee placed fourth in the medal race for eight points and finished in eighth place in the overall standings with 106 points. Argentina took gold in the event with 77 points despite finishing in sixth place in the medal race.
Two-time Olympian Thomas Barrows (Yale '10) and Joe Morris (Yale '12) finished their Rio 2016 49er regatta on a high note, with a sixth-place result in Race 10 representing their best score of the event. Barrows and Morris, who also competed together on the collegiate level at Yale, finished racing in 19th overall, and will not appear in the medal race.
Team USA’s Men’s 470 of Stu McNay (Yale '05) and Dave Hughes started the day as well as possible with an emphatic win in Race 8, but scores of 11, 14 to close out the qualifying series means that McNay and Hughes are in 4th overall and 27 points from bronze medal position. Unfortunately this means that the veteran pair, who have medaled sixteen times at elite-level events since 2012, are mathematically eliminated from challenging for the podium.
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