2016 Olympics, track and field results: Usain Bolt and Ashton Eaton personify Olympic greatness

Usain Bolt cannot be beaten. Since finishing in second at the 2007 world championships in the 200 meters, Bolt hasn’t lost a global competition (unless you count his false-start disqualification in the 2011 world championships 100). He’s 19-0 in those races, and a perfect 8-0 in the Olympics.

He won the 200 for the third consecutive time on Thursday, racing to another dominating win in 19.78 seconds into a headwind. He was 0.34 seconds clear of second placer Andre De Grasse of Canada -- who is in line to become the next great sprinter -- as it once again wasn’t very close.

Bolt was already the only runner to win one event three times in a row at the Games, and now he’s done it twice. He’s the greatest sprinter of all time -- unfortunately, viewers have only one more chance to enjoy him in the Olympics. He’ll race one more time for gold in the 4x100 on Friday night. If his Jamaican team can win, it would be his third event with three wins a row.

It wasn’t easy, but Eaton won another gold in the decathlon. Eaton defended his Olympic title from London, by taking the two-day, 10-event competition by equaling an Olympic record with 8893 points. France’s Kévin Mayer had the competition of his life to finish in second place with 8834 points and Canada’s Damian Warner finished in the bronze medal position with 8666 points. Eaton is an all-time great Olympian, and likely the greatest decathlete of all time -- this Olympic win was yet another coronation.

Dalilah Muhammad won the women’s 400-meter hurdles on Thursday night, following up on Kerron Clement’s gold medal run in the men’s 400-meter hurdles on Thursday morning. Muhammad ran 53.13 to win as Ashley Spencer finished third in 53.72 behind Denmark’s Sara Spencer. The U.S. women hurdlers have been on fire in Rio -- the women swept the top three spots in the 100-meter hurdles on Wednesday night. Clement picked up the slack for the men after Team USA failed to pick up a medal in the 110 hurdles -- he ran 47.73 seconds to win gold eight years after winning silver in Beijing.

Crouser hurled the shot put, a 16-pound iron ball, 22.52 meters (73’10.75) to break an Olympic record on his way to a gold medal. Crouser was on fire, tossing the shot put with vigor on Thursday. He led a 1-2 U.S. finish as Joe Kovacs finished in second place with a throw of 21.78 meters. Tomas Walsh of New Zealand won bronze with a toss of 21.36 meters. Team USA had a big night on the track, and Crouser and Kovacs made sure to take care of business on the field.