Women's 200M Final; 4PM ET Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter & Sanya Richards-Ross Chase Gold [Live Stream]
The Olympics 2012 Women's 200-Meter Race Final will feature top American runners, Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter, and Sanya Richards-Ross. The Olympics winners will be going head to head for gold during the event on Wednesday, 4:00PM EST. Catch the race via live stream through the link below.
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The competition is fierce for the Olympics 2012 200-Meter race. Jamaican runners, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce also highlight the field for potential gold wins.
US runner, Richards-Ross came in first during the semi-final event in her semi-final (round 3) and overall between all 3 rounds. She clocked in the 200M race at 22.30 seconds. Right behind her was Fraser-Pryce with 22.34 seconds. Campbell-Brown clocked in first in round 1 of semi-finals with Carmelita Jeter in second place.
However, US runner, Felix came in first during round 2 of the semi-finals with 22.31 seconds and is the favorite to win the final competition.
The 200M race is Allyson Felix's "bread and butter," Alessandro Miglio, a featured columnist on Bleacher Report, describes. After finishing 4th in the 100M race.
The sprinter finished first with 22.71 seconds during the qualifying rounds.
During the Olympic trails, Felix blew away competitors, Richards-Ross and Jeter with her spectacular 21.69 seconds finish in the 200M dash.
The 26 year-old runner who currently holds 13 medals (9 of them gold) from the World Championship and Olympics is a favorite to win gold on Wednesday during the finals. Felix has never won an individual Olympic gold, so many are hoping this will be her first.
Felix reflected on her first win, silver in the 200M during the 2004 Athens Olympics. It took her a few weeks to fully acknowledge the reality of standing on the podium at the Olympics.
"You know, you go through the whole experience, and it's not until you get away from it that you can put everything into perspective and realize what a blessing the whole thing has been..." Felix said to Zap2It.
"It was just exciting," she continued. "Everything was new, the whole Olympic experience. I just have really great memories of everything: You know, walking in the opening ceremonies, the people that I met that are still friends to this day, and I just think there's nothing like that first time."
