Phew! Akani Simbine survives blistering qualifiers to advance to 100m final

.AkaniSimbine lived to fight another day and stay in contention for a medal after a blistering set of 100m semi-finals at the Tokyo Olympics. By Ashfakmohamed IOLSport Tokyo2020 Olympics TeamSA

The South African, though, kept running hard through the line and posted a time of 9.90. That proved to be enough to advance to the final as one of the two ‘fastest losers’, along with Jacobs.

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