MIAMI - An ambitious attempt to held a high-tech athletics meeting with runners in different stadiums ran into problems on Thursday when world champion Noah Lyles ran too short a distance in the 200 metres event.
But, after initial confusion, his official result read"shorter distance" and it appeared that the American had started from the wrong line.The race was won by Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre, running in Zurich, in 19.80 seconds, one hundredth of a second ahead of and Dutchman Churandy Martina, who was in the Netherlands.
It prided itself on the use of high technology which allowed athletes separated by thousands of kilometres to compete against each other. In the top race, multiple Olympic and world championship medallist Allyson Felix overcame 400 metres Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo and world bronze medallist Mujinga Kambundji over 150 metres."It was very strange, it felt like practice, but not even with the team-mates," Felix said.
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