Her initial struggles, and the list of stellar swimmers who will not attend the Rio 2016 Olympics at all, prompted questions about whether some sports’ USA trials exceed the Olympics for intensity. As he hit the straight and the crowd expected the sort of surge that brought him three Olympic golds on the same track four years ago, it didn’t happen.
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While Bolt will compete in his three events as he did in the two previous Olympic appearances, it will also mark his final time running in the Summer Games. “I need more work but over time I will be fine”.
“I’m not fully in shape”, Bolt told reporters. I’m happy with my execution and hopefully my coach is.
Bolt was made to wait when Sean McLean was disqualified for a false start and there was a further delay as a result of interference from the public announcement system.
It is not often that Usain Bolt is upstaged.
Welcoming the decision, the six-time Olympic gold medallist said the ruling “will scare a lot of people, send a strong message”, Sport24 reported.
With the temperature a cosy 23C for most of the evening and the stadium’s track relaid with the same fast Mondo track that will be used in Rio, conditions were ideal for running. Her mark of 3:57.49 broke Kelly Holmes’s national record by 0.41sec.
Christine Ohuruogu emphatically justified her inclusion in the British team for the individual 400m in Rio by running the fastest time in the country this year at 51.05.
“I’m getting there”, he said, perhaps sending out a warning to his Olympic rivals. “It’s great to have”.
It smashed her season’s best of 13.10secs and was her fastest time since the London Games, when she ran 12.54s.
“The competition, energy, work they have to put in to win the 100m in Rio will help my 200m, and that’s really my focus, trying to break the 200m world record”. Teenager Morgan Lake, who will compete in the high jump in Rio, achieved a season’s best 1.92m.
Former Olympic champion and BBC Sport pundit Michael Johnson said he had “never seen a race like that”. Emily Diamond was the next British athlete across the line in seventh, with Bundy-Davies and Anyika Onoura in pursuit.
The 2015 NCAA indoor/outdoor short hurdles champion for United Kingdom showed her intent in her preliminary heat earlier in the day, winning easily in 12.40.
But, on a balmy Friday night in London, the fastest man in the world played second fiddle to Kendra Harrison, a God-fearing hurdler from Tennessee, at the London Diamond League meet.
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Elsewhere in London, there was a trio of French winners: Jimmy Vicaut ran a sluggish 100 meters in 10.02 seconds, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse clocked 1 minute, 43.88 seconds in the 800 and Renaud Lavillenie cleared 5.90 meters in the pole vault.
