* Fraser-Pryce extends Jamaican sprint dominance
* Britons win heptathlon, men’s long jump and 10,000 metres
* Phelps finishes with 18th gold, record 22nd Olympic medal
* Serena Williams wins women’s tennis title
* “Blade runner” Pistorius makes Games history
(Updates with women’s 100 metres and men’s 10,000)
By Kevin Liffey
LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Three athletics golds crowned host
nation Britain’s best Olympic day for over a century after the
greatest swimmer of all time bowed out on a high by winning
Saturday’s last pool race of the Games.
Jessica Ennis, poster girl of the London Games, collapsed in
tears of relief after a capacity 80,000 crowd roared her around
the athletics track to victory in the heptathlon. More golds
followed for Britain in the men’s long jump and 10,000 metres.
On the day Jamaica’s 100 metres world record holder Usain
Bolt began his title defence, compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
won the right to call herself the fastest woman in the world by
winning her second successive women’s 100m Olympic gold.
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