Title favorite is eliminated after an arrogant run
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Shericka Jackson runs relaxed to the finish. Too relaxed
Source: AP / Petr David Josek
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Shericka Jackson is one of the fastest sprinters in the world. After bronze over 100 meters, the Jamaican also wanted to win a medal over 200 meters. But she is eliminated in advance. “She paid the price,” says her trainer.
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“Sometimes painful experiences can teach us a lesson that we didn’t think we had to.” This is how Jamaica sprinter Shericka Jackson writes it for her 37,400 followers on Instagram.
Her appearance in the run-up to the 200 meters at the Olympic Games in Tokyo immediately before was not even that wise. Jackson, bronze medalist in the 100 meters on Saturday, let the last 30 or 40 meters coast down in peace. At that point she was second and that would have easily made it to the semi-finals. But then the title candidate began to “jog out”.
The Portuguese Lorene Dorcas Bazolo also passed the 27-year-old as did the Italian Dalia Kaddari. And since Shericka Jackson wasted so much time, she didn’t make it through the ranking of the fastest in the next round. She was 29th – the first 28 progressed.
“Who do sprinters want to impress with that?”
Her trainer Stephen Francis expressed himself a little more clearly than the sprinter herself: “She obviously miscalculated and paid the price for it. I expected her to do better. She will learn from it. ”Nevertheless, a very Solomonic assessment of the self-inflicted elimination, which ruined the medal that was firmly aimed at.
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On the other hand, no consideration was given to Jackson on social media. The renowned British athletics journalist Cathal Dennehy (“Runners World”, “Guardian”) wrote on Twitter: “One of the stupidest performances of all time.” To add shortly afterwards: “Who do sprinters really want to impress when they try so easily to look as possible and to leave well before the finish line? It’s absolutely idiotic. “
Meanwhile, the German Lisa Marie Kwayie did better than the Jamaican. The DLV athlete qualified for the semifinals in 23.14 seconds – but there was the last stop of the run in 23.42 seconds. After all, Kwayie sprinted to the finish – in contrast to Sherika Jackson.
