CRYING Adam Gemili suffered a “s***” Olympics heartbreak after pulling his hamstring in the 200 heats in Tokyo. The British sprinter came to Japan hoping to challenge for the medals and yet he was unable to progress beyond the first round. The 27-year-old was left devastated after hurting himself on the final block start in […]
CRYING Adam Gemili suffered a “s***” Olympics heartbreak after pulling his hamstring in the 200 heats in Tokyo.
The British sprinter came to Japan hoping to challenge for the medals and yet he was unable to progress beyond the first round.
The 27-year-old was left devastated after hurting himself on the final block start in the warm-up of the morning session.
Gemili has had rotten luck in individual events on the global stage and missed out on the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics by fractions of a second.
Gemili said: “Literally I felt my hamstring go in my last start in the call room.
“I’m in so much pain. I said: ‘Strap it up, I just need to try.’
“I can’t believe this has happened. I feel like I had such a good chance.
“I finally put together three or four weeks of solid hard work I was ready to go out there and win and at least get a personal best.
“It’s s***. It’s really s***. I’m beyond devastated.
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“I had to try but I’m in so much pain right now – I said to my physio, just strap it up and let me at least try to push out.
“But I can tell straightaway. You don’t just cramp up when you sprint it was a tear. I cant believe this has happened.”
It is yet more agony for the British Athletics squad who saw Dina Asher-Smith fail to make the 100m final on Saturday night and then pull out of the 200m due to a lack of top-level fitness.
Then Zharnel Hughes was disqualified from the men’s 100m final on Sunday night when he suffered cramp on the block.
There are also concerns that Katarina Johnson-Thompson will not be fit for the two-day heptathlon, which starts on Wednesday, due to the fact she ruptured her Achilles at the end of 2020.
Gemili ended up finishing the race but what should have been 20 seconds or less ended up being 1:58.58.
It was another calamitous day for the sprinters as Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake was fifth in heat six with a time of 20.56 seconds but it was not good enough to make the semi-finals.
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