Allyson Felix clocked 49.67 seconds, the fastest time in Sunday’s 400m semifinals, to win heat three and advance to Monday’s final.
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It was depressing to see another pitiful attendance for two athletics greats like David Rudisha and Allyson Felix, due to run in the 800 and 400 metres finals, with the 56,000 capacity arena less than 20 per cent full.
Allyson Felix desperately wants an Olympic 400m gold medal and Shaunae Miller is sure to make it hard. She is ready. She will win the gold medal.
“It was good”, Felix said. Felix finished.07 seconds later.
“It feels good, I was focusing on first half”, she told reporters. Since then, the four-time Olympian has won six Olympic medals.
“She’s gone. I have to be really honest”. “Just the recovery is key now”. But she has stayed positive, citing her injury earlier this year, saying, “When I look back and see everything that happened, I still think it’s quite unbelievable I was able to make the team”.
Felix admitted that the 400m was “completely different to the 200m. I’ll do my best”.
Gatlin is aiming to score his first victory over Bolt in a major championship having lost to the Jamaican star in the 2012 Olympics and the final of last year’s World Championships in Beijing. I wish this year would’ve gone differently for me, but that’s just a part of sports.
Raymond Graham: As I said earlier in the season.
Field hockey: US women vs. Germany (11:30 a.m., NBCSN) – The Americans have been the surprise of the tournament, losing only one game in the preliminary round after finishing dead last four years ago in London.
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Second and third fastest in the heats were Bahrain’s Nigerian-born Oluwakemi Adekoya and Salwa Eid Naser, the former’s 50.72sec a national record for the Gulf state.
