However, Jenneke said the authorities’ decision to scrap the athletes’ warm-up time meant she chose to do her own warm-up while at the start line.
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Fellow Australian Sally Pearson is the reigning Olympic champion in the 100m hurdles, although she was unable to defend her title in Rio after suffering a hamstring injury in June.
The high-profile Australian trailed home sixth in her 100m hurdles heat in Rio de Janeiro in 13.26 seconds, nearly half a second slower than her personal best set previous year.
“My actual race was probably one of the worst races I have ever done;” she said on running into sixth place in the 100m event.
“I’ve been on the table every day sorting that out”, Jenneke said.
“I tried to push past it but just couldn’t get the same drive off my leg I wanted to”.
Jenneke became a household name – in my household, at least – when she was filmed bouncing and wriggling behind the starting blocks at the World Junior Championships in 2012.
Jenneke is due to run in the second heat of the hurdles which is scheduled to begin at 10pm Tuesday (Perth time).
Her run was nearly half a second slower than any of Pearson’s six times over the distance at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. “I actually don’t do that many competitive races throughout the season and it’s maybe something I should look to doing more”.
“At the moment, I am still young, I live at home, go to university”.
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Michelle Jenneke’s world-famous pre-race bouncing warmup routine is not working – but shhh, no one tell her.
