Marco Arop a breath away from gold in closest ever Olympic 800m finish 

“I’ve got a huge lifetime best and a silver medal, I can’t be upset.”

Marco Arop is the Paris 2024 men’s 800m silver medallist and he is also one of the fastest runners in the history of the event.

In a thrilling race which went down to the wire, Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi just out-leaned Arop by 1/100th of a second. Canada’s fastest middle distance runner lowered his Canadian record by 1.65 seconds to a remarkably fast time of 1:41.20, making him the fourth-fastest man in the history of the event.