Two golf buggies that carried the sprinters crash on the way to stadium and US sprinter Noah Lyles won the rescheduled race despite being in one of the vehicles
, also qualified comfortably behind Erriyon Knighton for Friday’s final.
“You had one job,” said the BBC’s Michael Johnson on commentary, as he voiced his surprise that the crash had occurred.Earlier in the evening Daryll Neita ran a personal best to qualify for the women’s 200m final. The Briton’s time of 22.21sec qualified her second behind Julien Alfred. Dina Asher-Smith ran 22.28 in her heat as she finished second behind the American Gabby Thomas in 21.97. “I could see Gabby and I was thinking: ‘Are we going to hunt?’ but I thought I was clear so let’s just complete this, stay relaxed and leave it for tomorrow,” Asher-Smith said.
Afterwards Neita insisted she had the talent to get an unlikely medal, adding: “Why the hell not? People think I’m crazy. But we should all be here wanting to get medals and to win. I feel like that’s the mindset we need. Even if we come up short, at least we came here with that intention.”
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