Fellow Canadian Akeem Haynes also failed to reach Friday’s final after clocking 10.24 in the second heat.
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Post-race an emotional Harrison was interviewed after the race by BBC’s broadcast by Rob Walker.
“Records are there to be broken“. “You’re not in Rio but you’ve proven tonight that you are a great, great champion”.
And as the Russian doping scandal threatens to overshadow the competition, the Jamaican is ready to deliver a good news story for track and field. It wasn’t the best of my best but it was my first one (of the year), so I’m cool with that.
“We have the toughest trials in America”, Rodgers said.
“You never know what the future holds, but I don’t think it will be anytime soon”. I was just really upset and I wanted to come out here and do what I know I could have done.
“I had a vision of going out there and showing the girls what I can do”.
Their time of 41.81sec was the fastest in 2016 and it showed that they will be serious contenders for a relay medal in Rio. “That 12.40 got my confidence back”. I’ll just keep doing the work. “My hamstring is good, I have no issue right now”. All I’ve got to do is continue working and continue pushing myself.
Quick Take #2: How big of an aberration was Harrison’s Trials result?
Harrison, who has been dominating the event all year – leading the Diamond Race with 40 points and who set a new American record of 12.26 weeks ago, was clean over all 10 barriers to post 12.20 and erase Bulgarian Yordanka Donkova’s 28 year-old world record of 12.21. Racing in the 100m hurdles, she snuck in to the final via a photo finish where she was then upstaged by American Kendra Harrison whose time of 12.20 broke a world record that had stood since 1988.
“He’s injured, gets a medical pass, that’s what his country does”.
The American record holder in the women’s 100 hurdles finished sixth in the U.S. Olympic trials earlier this month in Eugene, Ore. It’s Kelly Holmes Olympic gold medal record.
A world record and two British records lit up a dazzling Friday night of athletics.
“Yes, it definitely tells me I have passed this test”, Bolt told The Gleaner shortly after leaving the newly laid London Olympic Stadium track. She has so much ahead of her.
But she rebounded from that setback in an wonderful fashion, racing away to a new world record timing of 12.20 seconds in London last night.
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It is eight years since Bolt exploded into the world’s consciousness with his devastating success at the Beijing Games, but as he prepares to write his latest chapter of history, the Jamaican has bolder ambitions than merely securing three more golds.
