Was that the last time wesaw Ato on track? Great career, but I still wonder what happened in mid-season 2002. Suddenly (without any reported injury and berfore all the injury stories) he ran 10.20-10.40 only.
Guess we will never find out.
1 2264 ASAHARA Nobuharu JPN 21 JUN 1972 7 0.162 10.33 Q
2 2665 CHYLA Lukasz POL 31 MAR 1981 3 0.167 10.35 Q
3 1396 N’DRI Eric Pacome CIV 24 MAR 1978 4 0.147 10.39 Q
4 3117 BOLDON Ato TRI 30 DEC 1973 9 0.155 10.41
5 1761 NTHEPE Issa Aime FRA 26 JUN 1973 6 0.159 10.67
6 2069 DOBOS Gabor HUN 21 FEB 1976 2 0.131 10.68
7 1782 HOWARD John FSM 21 JUL 1981 8 0.195 10.85 NR
8 1133 SHAMSUDDIN Moh. BAN 15 SEP 1983 5 0.173 11.13
He picked the wrong heat to go through on time as the wind was strongly negative for only his and one other heat- Nick’s!
Sadly, almost everyone in the T&T champs got injured because they ran the race ahead of schedule- something that should NEVER be tolerated- and something that finished off Bruny as well before Sydney.
Yes, but look at the people in Atos heat. He had the “weakest” oponents of all heats. Not one season 2004 top 20 performer in it…usually he would have won the heat, wind or no wind…
It’s terrible - Darrel missed the Olympics because of the T&T injury.