Tokyo Olympics 2020 - Athletics - Day 2 (Sat)

[LuckySpikes]

9.94 NR for L M Jacobs.

[Occasional Hope]

9.94 for Lamont Jacobs. Super fast for a first round.

[Christy93]

Italy with their first sprint medal since Mennea, perhaps? (Or have I missed someone?). I'd love to see him get among the Americans.

[LoveSprints1]

He looked amazing! 100m opening up unexpectedly.

[oxfan]

How has Gayle done that?

[LoveSprints1]

Tajay Gayle, just pulled out an 8.14 jump, heavily strapped, but clearly injured.

[oxfan]

So 8.14 will get Gayle to the final, if he can walk to it

[SprintRelayFan]

Looking at the next heat I think prescod might struggle to get out of it

[LuckySpikes]

Yep, looks loaded!

[SprintRelayFan]

He almost didn’t get in it!

[RunUnlimited]

Italy with their first sprint medal since Mennea, perhaps? (Or have I missed someone?). I'd love to see him get among the Americans.

You would be correct. Italy have *never* had a *finalist* to the 100 m in the Olympics, let alone a medallist! The closest they ever came was when Mennea reached the Moscow 100 m semi-finals, where he was eliminated, before he went on to win the Olympic 200 m title.

[LuckySpikes]

Lucky lad !

[RunUnlimited]

VERRRRY lucky

[Occasional Hope]

He was lucky to get away with that.

[Occasional Hope]

Oduduru less lucky.

[SprintRelayFan]

Bloody hell Nigerians should protest that

[LuckySpikes]

No such favour for Ododuru!

[Christy93]

How can Prescod survive but Oduduru get DQ'd? He'll be reinstated if they protest.

[RunUnlimited]

Bloody hell Nigerians should protest that

Yeah, Ododuru is getting thrown under the bus there