RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 17: Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin sweep the 100m hurdle final with gold,silver and bronze in the Women's 200m final during the Olympic Games on August 17, 2016 in Rio De Janeiro, . (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post) (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
  
RIO DE JANEIRO — They couldn’t know the result immediately, not in a race decided by a fraction of a drum beat, so the three Americans stood near each other, waiting. There was some measure of celebration and certainty only for Brianna Rollins. Yet even she stared up at the giant scoreboard above one end of Olympic Stadium, wondering.
“I knew that I got the gold,” Rollins said. “But I just wanted to make sure that my other teammates medaled as well.”
It took Rollins just 12.48 seconds to cross the finish line in the women’s 100-meter hurdles Wednesday night. The next few moments had to feel 10 times as long. But when the numbers and names flashed up — Nia Ali, 12.59 for silver, Kristi Castlin 12.61 for bronze — the three women jumped spontaneously and squealed, because no celebration for a sweep could be planned. No three American teammates, in any women’s event in the history of Olympic track and field, had taken all three medals. Rollins, Ali and Castlin, understandably, fell into a deep and deserved hug.

Source: The Washington Post