Multi-event world champions have rough day at Tokyo Olympics Today 01:33 am JST Today | 07:53 am JST
KJT was desperate to avoid a DNF at the Olympics.
After injuring her lower right leg rounding the bend in the 200-meter event, heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson found herself sitting on the track with medical staff rushing to her assistance, including one pushing a wheelchair.
She waved them off, got up and started jogging gingerly down the home stretch, crossing the finish line with a stride more like a race walk than a sprint. After bravely avoiding a Did Not Finish in the result column, she recorded a DQ instead disqualified for stepping out of her lane.
Multi-event world champions have rough day at Tokyo Olympics
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When Steve Bastien sprinted down the homestretch of the 1500 meters, the last event of the decathlon at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, he thought about every hard-fought effort that led him to that moment.
He thought about the risks he took in the years leading up to the Trials changing his entire strength routine in 2019 and working a full-time job in construction in 2020. He thought about the countless hours logged at the University of Michigan track in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife, Kiley Bastien, who coaches him in several events. He thought about how he has never been sponsored since graduating from Michigan in 2017. He also thought about his father’s decathlon career, and how that ignited his Olympic dream as a kid.
We will not tolerate any more cuts to our community by the City of Greater Sudbury
Author of the article: Mary Katherine Keown
Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021 • 8 minutes ago • 4 minute read • Eight years ago Ken Rogerson (left), Carrie Morin, Steve Bastien, Danielle Landry and Genny Larose, all members of the I.J. Coady Memorial Arena events committee, were concerned the arena in Levack would be shuttered. The issue resurfaced this week during municipal budget talks. Photo by John Lappa /THE SUDBURY STAR
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