12th IAAF World Championships

[Charlie_Francis]

@robin1

While I don’t think he wanted it to be quite that close, he was obviously trying to spend as little energy as possible in this heat. Based on his past difficulties with running rounds, this was probably the right decision.

Asafa needs to be careful but he needs all his energy for later on. He’s better situated than he has been in the past where he’s overqualified by miles and then run out of gas when it counted.