Courtesy of Team USA
RIO DE JANEIRO – Clayton Murphy wasn’t alive the last time the United States won a medal in the 800-meter.
Murphy, 21, ended a 24-year medal drought when he won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Johnny Gray won the bronze medal at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, taking an early lead and holding on.
Murphy, the U.S. champion, had the opposite strategy. Although a bit bottled up on the inside with about 250 meters to go, he used a blistering kick on the homestretch to overtake Pierre-Ambroise Bosse of France, who was fading on the inside.