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Wayde van Niekerk qualifies at last for Tokyo, but Caster Semenya misses again

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The good news is that Wayde van Niekerk finally qualified in the 400m for the Tokyo Olympics, but the bad news is that he was beaten on the line in Madrid on Saturday night.

The reigning Games champion and owner of the 43.03sec world record clocked 44.56sec, his fastest time since before he injured his right knee in late 2017.

Van Niekerk has a little over a month to wring out the ring rust that was on show in Spain, but given how he’s come through a tough month or two, he can’t be written off yet. Van Niekerk, who arrived in his Italian training camp in Gemona from the US only on Tuesday morning, has his work cut out.Running in Germany, however, Caster Semenya missed the mark in the women’s 5,000m, finishing fourth in 15min 57.12sec, well outside the 15:10.00 criterion.

She ended 15th overall in 2hr 03min 12.10sec. The winning time, by Hungary’s Anna Olasz, was 2:01:55.50.

 

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There is no bad news! What a kak headline... FFS you can do better! He was cruising at the end and didn’t need to push any harder

Congrats boy I always had faith in u, tough luck to the other guy 🤭

How is that bad news? Lol the goal was to qualify, and it was his first 400m race of the season. He did. Now he has almost two months to get to peak 400m shape.

He qualified. That’s all that matters

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