An unpredictable crop of contenders vie for the the throne of track's marquee event
A guy from Italy who had never run under 10 seconds before last year, won the Olympics in 9.80, then got hurt.
“It’s been going back and forth,” said Canada’s Andre De Grasse, the Olympic bronze medalist at 100 meters last summer and gold medalist at 200. “It’s been competitive. I think that’s what brings the best out of the sport. Everyone is competitive, and you never know who is going to win.” Next came Marcell Jacobs, the son of a U.S. serviceman and Italian mother who was born in El Paso but moved to Italy when he was a few weeks old. He was a long jumper first and didn’t focus on the sprints until 2019.
Except he got stuck in Nairobi waiting for a U.S. entry visa. He wasn’t alone. More than 300 athletes and coaches had similar issues with embassy backlogs, and Omanyala was still there as recently as Thursday. His visa application finally cleared, and he hopped on a plane. “To come out here and compete at this level, that’s scary,” American sprinter Marvin Bracy said of Omanyala’s travel travails. “And guys are running 9.7s in prelims.”
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