In the final, the 23-year-old Harrison got out of the blocks quickly and was away from the field by the third hurdle.
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Keni Harrison also looked more than ready for Brazil by breaking a 28-year record in the 100-metre hurdles in London on Friday.
A GIF of her reaction was posted on Twitter by Deadspin and was liked and retweeted over 2000 times.
“If at the end of the season you feel like, yeah, this is it, then you retire but let’s not focus on talking about retirement because you never know what’s going to happen”.
“I have to have confidence in my training that I’m working as hard as everyone else in the world, and when I do go out and compete, mentally I’m very tough and physically I’m in good shape”.
However, Bolt said he felt disrespectful and disappointed by the criticism and dismissed the claims by insisting that he has proven himself year after year that he was the greatest, Sport24 reported.
Brushing aside any concerns about the hamstring injury which forced him to withdraw from his country’s Olympic trials earlier this month, the Jamaican sprint king ran a solid time of 19.89sec in his first competitive 200m of this season in London on Friday. “I haven’t run a fast 1500m this year so I wanted to go out there and show the world what I can do”.
Harrison broke the record set by Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova in 1988 – 4 years before she was born – by one hundredth of a second.
Harrison’s reaction is especially awesome because she didn’t initially realize she’d broken the world record; according to Deadspin, “the official time posted after Harrison crossed the line was 0.3 seconds slower than the actual, record time she’d ran”. “It was just mentally, the pressure got to me”. I have to stay patient, stay injury free, keep my feet on the ground.
Incredibly, Harrison will not be at next month’s Rio Olympics, having finished sixth in the USA trials this month. “I concentrated a bit too much maybe, and mucked it up really”, Doyle said.
Brianna Rollins (12.57), Kristi Castlin (12.59) and Ali Nia (12.63), all Rio-bound after finishing 1-2-3 in the U.S. trials, finished in the same order behind Harrison.
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“I felt it was a joke”, the Bolt said. But I prepare for any lane that I’m running in, whoever’s inside or outside me – Usain, Justin Gatlin, whoever’s in that final.
