Rio Olympics and Water Station

face: It initially looked as if someone had thrown paint into her face and on her hands, but it turned out that it was a nose bleed, according to The Guardian. Eventually Mazuronak, who was fifth in the Rio Olympics, was able to clean her face with a sponge at a water station and slowly shook off her rivals until only the French runner Clemence Calvin was left. Jakob Ingebrigtsen, 17, wins 5,000m gold less than a day after 1500m triumph Read more The 29-year-old from Belarus was looking comfortable in the lead group when her face was suddenly covered in blood just after 30 minutes into the race. As the two athletes ran towards the last few hundred metres at the finish, it looked as if Mazouronak had established a decisive advantage only to then turn the wrong way. The Czech athlete Eva Vrabcova Nyvltova took bronze. That allowed Calvin to catch up, but the Belarus athlete had enough left in the tank to power away and win in 2hr 26min 22sec six seconds clear of Calvin. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.