![]() Though it did take a couple of minutes for Harrison to officially be declared the silver medalist, she said she felt happy regardless. Trials, so just picking myself back up and just going after it and building my confidence back up to get a silver medal to bring home to my country, I couldn’t be happier." "I think missing out on Rio, it’s always in the back of my head when I’m training, that’s what continues to make me work hard, just remembering that moment of getting sixth at the U.S. "To miss out in Rio and come to my first Olympics and get a silver medal, you know of course everyone wants the gold but I’ve gotten myself back out here on the world stage, I’m getting better and better, so I couldn’t be happier," she said. Smiling broadly as she approached the microphone in the mix zone, her hands - tipped in perfectly done nails featuring a white base and glimmery red and blue stars - holding an American flag around her shoulders, Harrison called the silver "amazing." A couple of weeks after her Trials disappointment, Harrison broke the world record in the event, running 12.20 seconds at a meet in London. The three American women who did go swept the medals, small solace to the woman who missed her chance to be part of the show. ![]() Trials as the best hurdler in the world that season and finished sixth in the final - far outside of the top three that get to go to the Games. It ties her for the fourth-fastest performance of all time.Īs heartbreaking as Camacho-Quinn's first Olympic experience was, at least she was in Rio. She may have allowed that memory to cause her momentary pause, but clearly it didn't linger: Camacho-Quinn set an Olympic record in the semis on Sunday, running 12.26. "But yesterday before semis I kind of had a breakdown because I don’t want the same thing to happen again, but I knew how I’d been racing all season, just do that and I’ll be OK." "I’m constantly reminded somebody’s always messaging me and like, ‘Oh I’m sorry for what happened’ and I’m like I need y’all to let that go, please," she said, laughing. Tennis player Monica Puig won Puerto Rico's first gold medal in 2016.Īsked how long that Rio stumble stayed with her, Camacho-Quinn said it's basically been inescapable over the last five years. citizens, the IOC recognizes it as its own country for the purposes of Olympic competition and laws. ![]() The daughter of a father born in South Carolina and a mother born in Puerto Rico, Camacho-Quinn chose to represent her mother's island even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. She fell in her semifinal, her trail leg clipping the top of the eighth of the 10 hurdles, and she couldn't regain her form before the ninth, stumbling and falling to the track. ![]() In 2016, Camacho-Quinn was a 19-year-old University of Kentucky student coming off an NCAA championship when she came to her first Olympics. "This was what I wanted for this year, I wanted to be a gold medalist, and I manifested that. This year I trained really hard I don’t have a training partner, I’m by myself, so every time I stepped out there I gave it all I had," Camacho-Quinn said.
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