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Brazil Win Their First Men’s Football Olympic Gold Medal

Two years ago, Germany thrashed Brazil 7-1
in the 2014 Fifa World Cup semi-finals in Belo

Horizonte. In front of 78,000 people at the
Maracana, Brazil got their revenge as they

finally won the Olympic title after losing in the
finals in 1984, 1988 and 2012. The capacity
crowd created a fantastic atmosphere in the

Maracana and got the result they desperately
craved. The game finished 1-1 after extra

time, with Neymar's first-half free-kick
cancelled out by Max Meyer's strike. In the
shootout, Germany's Nils Petersen had his

penalty saved by Weverton before Neymar
won it. Neymar scored the winning penalty as

hosts, Brazil, beat Germany 5-4 on penalties in
Rio to win their first men's Olympic football

gold medal. Neymar added: "This is one of the
best things that has happened in my life.

That's it."
Mo Farah Completes Double-Double

Mo Farah wins his 4th Olympic gold

medal and cements his place as Great
Britain’s best track and field athlete by
claiming gold in 5000m final on 20th

August, a week after he claimed gold in
10,000m. "It's every athlete's dream but I

can't believe it," Farah said afterwards.
"Being away from my family for so long, I

knew I had to do something for them. I
just want to go home now and see my

beautiful kids and hang my medals
around their necks." Farah’s consecutive
wins resulted in him becoming only the

second man to complete the historic
double double, after Lasse Viren of

Finland in the 1 970s.

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