Wayde van Niekerk begins the defence of his Olympic 400m crown at the Tokyo Games on Sunday insisting he is fit enough to slug it out for three full rounds.
pièce de résistanceThree races in five days seems like a hectic schedule for someone who in two seasons has done just five 400s‚ with the narrowest gap between two races being 10 days.
Van Niekerk has looked sharp in some 200m races this year‚ but in both 400m outings he looked a little sluggish on the home straight‚ suggesting he needed to sharpen his fitness. Van Niekerk‚ who moved to the US to switch coaches earlier this year‚ pulled up in a 200m race in Boston while experiencing a tightness in his hip and withdrew just before a 400m race in Europe early this month after feeling a stiffness in his lower back. That translates into two of his last four scheduled races.
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