Ina Asher-Smith It is said that she has another level to reach, and according to this evidence, she will need it after the women’s Olympic 100m race starts in Tokyo.
Asher-Smith is Britain’s leading hope in these Olympic tracks. He won the 100-meter silver and 200 million-meter gold medal at the Doha World Championship two years ago.
The 25-year-old player ranked first in the preliminaries sports The action started this morning and fell behind Teahna Daniels of the United States on 11.07, but the fireworks are coming soon.
Defending champion Elaine Thompson-Hera rose rapidly with a score of 10.82 in the next Heat. After that, Mary Josie Talloo went faster and set a new African record of 10.78. Tower dragged to 10.96 PB as she continued her excellent season. The first time is 11 seconds.
Two-time Olympic champion and this year’s fastest woman in the world Shirley-Ann Fraser-Pryce also won her preliminaries with a score of 10.84, but Asher Smith was in a relaxed mood afterwards.
“To be honest, today is just to enter the next round safely, knowing that I will have another level tomorrow [in the semi-finals and final] So I am really happy,” she said.
“And I do have another level-of course I do. This is an Olympic Games.”
Earlier, Keely Hodgkinson and Jemma Reekie were both potential medal contenders for the women’s 800m. They easily advanced to the semi-finals. Teammate Alex Bell will also join, who was late after Laura Muir chose to concentrate. Participate in these races on the 1500m and pass as the fastest loser.
“It’s great, I’m very happy to go out,” said 19-year-old Hodgkinson. “You can never predict the progress of the game, but I did learn something there. It will be the biggest stage I have ever performed, so I just have to do it round after round.”
British player Tom Gale entered his first Olympic high jump final with the best score of 2.28 million meters this season, but Lawrence Okoye encountered disaster in the discus because he His three throws failed to score and crashed.
World record holder Karsten Warholm and American player Rai Benjamin both easily completed their 400m hurdle preliminaries in order to continue the game in the final next week.
