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Rio Olympics 2016: Thiago Braz da Silva wins Brazil's second gold medal of Games

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Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva set an Olympic record of 6.03m to win gold in the men's pole vault at Rio 2016.</div>
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Defending champion Renaud Lavillenie of France looked on course to retain his title after clearing a height of 5.98m.</div>
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Da Silva, 22, who passed at 5.98m, failed his first attempt at 6.03m but went clear with his second to win the hosts' second gold medal of the Games.</div>
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Lauvillenie, booed by the partisan crowd, took silver, while American Sam Kendricks sealed bronze with 5.85m.</div>
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"The crowd were cheering me too much. I had to fix my mind on my technique, forget the people," Da Silva said.</div>
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"The gold? Incredible. My first time over six metres. My home town wanted me to win."</div>
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The pole vault competition was delayed because of rain and then held up with a mechanical fault that temporarily saw the bar unable to be raised, but ended in a thrilling conclusion that finished just before midnight local time.</div>
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Da Silva added 11 centimetres to his previous personal best to set a national record and become only the fourth Brazilian to win a track and field gold at a Games.</div>
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The last Brazilian Olympic gold medallist in an athletics event was Maurren Maggi, who won the women's long jump at Beijing 2008.</div>
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'Disrespected like Jesse Owens'</h3>
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World record holder Lavillenie had to appeal for quiet from the Rio crowd as he prepared for a jump at 6.08m which would have put him back into the lead, and gave a thumbs down gesture to the cameras.</div>
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"In 1936 the crowd was against Jesse Owens. We've not see this since. We have to deal with it," he said.</div>
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"For the Olympics it is not a good image. I did nothing to the Brazilians."</div>
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African-American athlete Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, which were being used by Adolf Hitler to promote Nazi ideologies of racial superiority.</div>
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Lavillenie added: "There was no fair play from the public.</div>
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"You see it in football. It is the first time I have seen it in track and field. It is the biggest moment of your life. I can't be happy about that. Now I have to wait four years to get back the gold."</div>
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sports Rio Olympics 2016: Thiago Braz da Silva wins Brazil's second gold medal of Games

Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva set an Olympic record of 6.03m to win gold in the men's pole vault at Rio 2016. Defending champio...

Italian Open: Andy Murray into third round but Heather Watson knocked out

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Andy Murray progressed to the third round of the Italian Open with a 6-3 6-3 win over Kazakh qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin in Rome.</div>
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British number one Murray, 28, who received a bye in the first round, will next face Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut or Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.</div>
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Heather Watson was beaten 6-4 6-2 in round two by Czech Barbora Strycova.</div>
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The British number two, 23, won the opening four games but lost 12 of the next 14 against the world number 37.</div>
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Later on Wednesday, British number one Johanna Konta takes on seventh-seeded Italian Roberta Vinci in the second round.</div>
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Assistant coach Jamie Delgado and Great Britain Davis Cup captain Leon Smith were in Murray's box for the world number three's first match since<a href="http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/36247592" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">splitting from coach</a> Amelie Mauresmo this week.</div>
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Murray is not anticipating appointing a replacement before the French Open, which begins on 22 May.</div>
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"I haven't thought loads about it," he told Sky Sports.</div>
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"The thing with the top players, the super coaches, is that experience around the major events and the big matches, understanding the stress and pressure and how to deal with that.</div>
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"But I made some technical changes on my serve over the last couple of months and that's taken my game up a level.</div>
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"The ex-players don't tend to be technical coaches, so it's tough to pick."</div>
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World number 55 Watson said her defeat by Strycova was "tough to take".</div>
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"I was playing super well, then my opponent stepped up her game, I dropped mine a little and it turned the match completely," she added.</div>
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"That happens sometimes. It happens more often on clay than other surface. It was a big opportunity for me today and I'll have to learn from this one."</div>
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sports Italian Open: Andy Murray into third round but Heather Watson knocked out

Andy Murray progressed to the third round of the Italian Open with a 6-3 6-3 win over Kazakh qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin in Rome. Brit...