Adam Gemili’s private finest over 200m is nineteen.97 secondsDates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Watch reside on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Purple Button and on-line; Pay attention on BBC Radio 5 Reside, Sports activities Additional and Sounds; reside textual content and video clips on BBC Sport web site and app.
British sprinter Adam Gemili’s hopes of a medal within the males’s 200m on the Tokyo Olympics have been dashed as he pulled up injured within the heats.
Gemili, 27, had been aiming to enhance on his fourth-placed end at Rio 2016 the place he missed out on bronze by three thousandths of a second.
A clearly distraught Gemili stopped instantly after leaving the beginning blocks earlier than strolling to the end.
“I can not consider this has occurred. I’m in a lot ache,” he instructed BBC Sport.
“In my final block begin earlier than I went into the cool room and I simply felt my hamstring go. I simply mentioned strap it up and let me go on the market and take a look at, as a result of it’s a must to attempt.
“I felt like I had such a superb probability as properly. I’ve been coaching so properly. This season has been actually up and down and I had lastly put collectively 5 to 6 weeks of stable work.
“I used to be able to exit and win, try to get a medal, no less than PB and I do not get that probability. I can not say anything. It’s the worst feeling on this planet.”
Fellow Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, who clocked a season-best time of 20.56 seconds, additionally didn’t advance to the semi finals.
Gemili, who’s taking part in his third Video games, was additionally as a result of compete for Nice Britain within the males’s 4x100m relay heats that start on Thursday.
His probably withdrawal continues a troublesome Olympics for Workforce GB sprinters.
Zharnel Hughes was disqualified within the males’s 100m last, whereas Dina Asher-Smith didn’t make the girls’s 100m last and pulled out of the 200m after tearing her hamstring in July.
