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Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak
Happily joint gold medalists and Olympic champions. Neither were fancied. Neither was leading at the turn. Both’s first instinct was to hug the other.
It was perhaps the most inspiring moment of the games.
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Simone Manuel of the United States and Penny Oleksiak of Canada tie for gold with an Olympic Record in the 100m freestyle with a time of 52.70. Manuel is the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic swimming medal, and Oleksiak is the youngest gold medalist in Olympics history.
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With an Olympic record tie in the 100m freestyle, 16-year old Penny Oleksiak became the first Canadian to ever win four medals in a single summer Olympics, while 20-year-old Simone Manuel became the first black woman in Olympic history to earn an individual swimming gold medal: “It means a lot [to be the first black woman to earn gold in the pool]. I mean, this medal is not just for me. It’s for a whole bunch of people that came before me and have been an inspiration to me. Maritza [Correia], Cullen [Jones], and it’s for all the people after me, who believe they can’t do it. And I just want to be inspiration to others that you can do it.”