{"id":2008804,"date":"2023-08-22T23:41:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock-discus-gold-with-astonishing-personal-best\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T23:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T03:45:25","slug":"athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock-discus-gold-with-astonishing-personal-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock-discus-gold-with-astonishing-personal-best\/","title":{"rendered":"American Tausaga stuns with personal best to claim discus gold."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fathletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock-discus-gold-with-astonishing-personal-best%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Mitch \u200dPhillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BUDAPEST \u200c(Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong> Laulauga Tausaga obliterated her personal best by over four metres to take a stunning world discus gold \u200don Tuesday just as fellow American and \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/golf-celebrations-and-controversy-put-aside-as-the-open-gets-underway\/\" title=\"Golf-Celebrations and controversy put aside as The Open gets underway\">hot favourite<\/a> Valarie \u2062Allman had been seemingly cruising towards the title.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tausaga, \u2062who finished\u200d last in the previous two \u200bworld finals,\u200d came into the showdown with a best of 65.46 \u2064metres but somehow found 69.49 with her fifth throw, before sprinting into the crowd to celebrate with her incredulous supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic champion Allman owned the top six throws of the season, the best of them\u2062 almost three metres better than anyone else in the\u200d field, and\u2062 was determined to avoid a repeat of last year when she was hot favourite but managed only bronze behind surprise winner Feng Bin of China.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in Eugene, Allman stamped her authority on the Budapest competition with\u2064 a first \u2062round throw \u200dof\u2062 68.57 metres\u2063 \u2013 further than any of\u200b her rivals\u200b had managed all year.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2062 improved that to 68.79 in the\u2064 third round \u200band 69.23 in the fourth and seemed comfortably\u200c set \u2062for\u200c gold \u200buntil her team mate\u2019s stunner.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian-born Tausaga had managed a personal best of 65.56 \u2063but that was \u200dbarely noticed as\u2063 it\u200d kept her in sixth place at the halfway point.<\/p>\n<p>After\u2063 Tausaga\u2019s Bob Beamonesque throw, Allman had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jason-miller-post-musk-twitter-is-doomed-disruptive-social-media-platforms-are-primed-to-replace-it\/\" title=\"Jason Miller: Post-Musk Twitter is Doomed. Disruptive Social Media Platforms Are Primed to Replace It\">final chance<\/a> to reclaim the lead but could not manage it, leaving her compatriot to take \u200da victory throw, which shed did \u2063with \u200ctears streaming down her face.<\/p>\n<p>Feng claimed\u2062 bronze with \u200ca final\u200d round throw of 68.20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAIRY\u2063 GODMOTHER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t \u2062know if I have a fairy godmother or \u200dmy ancestors had some\u200c say in \u2063it,\u200b but I was able to do something tonight that I didn\u2019t think was possible,\u201d\u200d Tausaga said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was confident if I\u2063 was on \u200cmy A-game I could sneak through into a medal place and not be 12th like\u200b I was in \u200dthe\u200c last two world championships. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable to go from 12th to first. I \u200cjust said to \u2062myself, \u2018You need to let it out and if it \u200dfouls, then so be it\u2019. \u200dBut \u2063it sailed out to\u200c that big throw and here I am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a gold medal, I can\u2019t believe it, it\u2019s so unreal. When I saw my distance I \u200bjust couldn\u2019t get to my coach\u2063 fast enough to give him the strongest hug of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allman\u200b had a face\u2062 like thunder at the end and said:\u200c \u201cI \u2062wanted to be the \u2064champion tonight, it\u200d is not a secret.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI \u200chave been training very hard, putting everything in for \u2064the\u2064 victory. \u2062It\u2019s tough when you are in\u2062 a good form and you cannot \u2064reach the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I \u200dfeel so proud of being on \u200bthe podium and a one-two for USA is also so special, to stand together with Laulauga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also know I\u200c am capable of responding\u2063 to this. I need\u2064 to put \u200done \u2062more year of work\u2062 into it\u200c and \u200btry to find\u200c what seemed to be\u200c missing. I know I can still improve and, most importantly, I am hungry and I am\u200c not done with the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s remarkable\u200c events came 24 hours after another incredible finale in the men\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Stahl \u2064won it with\u200d the \u200bfinal throw minutes after Slovenian Kristjan Ceh thought \u200bhe had done enough to retain his title when his last throw edged him past the Swede into\u200c the lead.<\/p>\n<p>  (Reporting \u200dby Mitch Phillips, editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock\/attachment\/world-athletics-championship-51\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock\/attachment\/world-athletics-championship-52\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock\/attachment\/world-athletics-championship-53\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock\/attachment\/world-athletics-championship-54\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>BRICS could \u200dbe America\u2019s Legion of Doom<\/h2>\n<p>John Eastman \u200cturns \u200bhimself in and Do Not Comply when faced \u2062with\u2063 mandates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Former President Donald \u2063Trump skips\u2063 first Republican \u200cpresidential primary<\/h2>\n<p>Arizona gubernatorial candidate \u200cKari \u200bLake \u2062hailed Trump for \u2063the decision, saying the \u200brace is\u2064 already over. \u2064One America\u2019s <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>President returns to vacation after visiting Maui<\/h2>\n<p>Two weeks following\u2063 the deadly wildfire\u2064 that has officially claimed the lives of\u2062 at least 115 people, including children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Dr. Mandy Cohen appointed as CDC director<\/h2>\n<p>After being the\u200c secretary of North Carolina\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Elon Musk seeks to change\u200b news links on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerbergs-attempt-to-take-down-musks-twitter-is-tanking-further-and-further-each-day-data-shows\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg's bid to defeat Musk on Twitter is failing more each day, data reveals.\">social \u200cmedia platform<\/a> X<\/h2>\n<p>Formerly called Twitter, in a\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Scramble among Arm Holdings Ltd\u2019s clients<\/h2>\n<p>Comprising\u2062 the\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to probe Qualcomm\u2019s purchase<\/h2>\n<p>Of\u200c Israeli auto-chip\u2026\u2063 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-american-tausaga-wins-shock-discus-gold-with-astonishing-personal-best\/\" title=\"American Tausaga stuns with personal best to claim discus gold.\">consumer finance regulator sues subsidiary<\/a> of \u200dfintech lender Curo Group Holdings Corp<\/h2>\n<p>Alleging\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST (Reuters) &#8211; Laulauga Tausaga shocked the world by smashing her personal best by over four meters to win the discus gold. Valarie Allman, the favorite, seemed to be on track for victory. Tausaga, who had previously finished last in two world finals, proved her critics wrong in a thrilling showdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2008805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}