In the early morning of August 4, Beijing time, the track and field event of the Paris Olympics ended the second day of competition, and in the women's 100-meter final, Alfred from Saint Lucia ran a time of 10.72 seconds and won the gold medal with a margin of 0.15 seconds, which is also the first gold medal in the history of Saint Lucia since participating in the Olympic Games, and Alfred is enough to go down in the history of national sports.
In previous editions, the women's 100m track and field was basically Jamaica's strength, and United States was in the second echelon, but this year's Jamaica women's sprinters were not strong, which also made United States athletes see the hope of winning the championship, and suddenly a super dark horse appeared.
St. Lucia's Alfred can be called out of nowhere, from the first group in the preliminary round, to the first in the semifinal group, and the final is still the first, with a time of 10.72 seconds, which is also very close to the Olympic record, and the two United States players Richardson and Jefferson can only watch Alfred run the first to cross the finish line.
After the match, Alfred held the flag of St. Lucia high and showed it to the media, a moment that made the world aware of this small country.
For domestic netizens, Saint Lucia is a very strange country, located in the middle of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean Sea in Central and North America, with an area of only 616 square kilometers, which is not as good as a fourth- or fifth-tier city in our country, and the national population is only about 180,000, Saint Lucia belongs to a tropical maritime climate, divided into dry and wet seasons throughout the year, and crops are mainly planted with bananas, coconuts, cocoa, and spices.
Now, the first gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games of the Saint Lucia sports team was born, Alfred made history, and at this moment, the whole world cheered her, and the small country of Saint Lucia was known to the world as a national hero!
In the latest gold medal list, Saint Lucia has risen from the bottom to 32nd, ranking higher than India, Mexico, Nigeria and other countries with hundreds of millions of people.