On Sunday morning, reigning 200m world champion Shericka Jackson of Jamaica pulled out of the ladies’s 200m heats on the Paris Olympic Video games. The second-fastest lady of all time within the 200m won’t race for a person medal at these Video games.
Jackson beforehand withdrew from the 100m as effectively, citing a leg damage she suffered in a tune-up race final month.
Along with her withdrawal, American Gabby Thomas will emerge because the favorite to win the 200m. Thomas cruised by her qualifying warmth on Sunday, as did newly minted 100m Olympic champion Julien Alfred, who returned to the monitor about 13 hours after beating Sha’Carri Richardson for gold.
It’s one more blow for the Jamaican girls’s dash workforce, a perennial Olympic powerhouse that has captured 15 of the 24 Olympic medals within the 100m and 200m since 2008. Elaine Thompson-Herah, the defending Olympic 100m and 200m champion, shut down her season earlier this 12 months with an Achilles damage. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce pulled out with an undisclosed damage in Saturday’s 100m semis, saying on social media, “It’s troublesome for me to seek out the phrases to precise my disappointment.”
Leduc advances, private finest for Madogo
Canada’s Audrey Leduc was one of many 18 girls to qualify for Monday’s 200m semi-final, inserting third in her warmth in 22.88 seconds to seize an automated qualifying spot. Jacqueline Madogo of Ottawa set an enormous private finest of twenty-two.78 seconds in her 200m warmth, ending fourth, and can head to tomorrow’s repechage spherical.
Jacqueline Madogo 🇨🇦 on her new 22.78 private finest within the heats of the ladies’s 200m:
“This can be a PB I’ve been chasing all season, and I’m glad it clicked. It simply took the large stage to click on—I’m actually pleased.”#teamcanada #Athletics pic.twitter.com/hd59syZ1z4
— Canadian Operating (@CanadianRunning) August 4, 2024
“This can be a PB I’ve been chasing all season, and I’m glad it clicked,” mentioned Madogo. “It simply took the large stage to click on—I’m actually pleased.”
The ladies’s 200m repechage spherical will happen on Monday morning at 12:50 p.m. native time (6:50 a.m. ET), with the semifinals within the night session.
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