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Usain Bolt could miss Rio Olympics after suffering hamstring tear at Jamaica trials
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Usain Bolts Olympic quest is in doubt, after the sprint superstar left his countrys national championships with a hamstring injury shortly before he was going to run the 100-meter final.
And that was just one part of a bizarre night at National Stadium.
Bolts longtime rival Yohan Blake won the 100 title and formally qualified for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics but only after a false-start disqualification call against him was overturned after review.
But even after Blake regrouped and prevailed, all the buzz was about Bolt and his status going forward especially since the national meet serves as the Jamaican Olympic trials.
Hes not out of the Rio Games, but his status hinges now on how he does at a meet in London in three weeks. Bolt said he was diagnosed with a Grade 1 hamstring tear the most mild sort and that the discomfort began presenting itself in his quarterfinal race on Thursday night.
I have submitted a medical exemption to be excused from the 100m final and the remainder of the National Championships, Bolt said in a statement released through Jamaican officials.
I will seek treatment immediately and hope to show fitness at the London Anniversary Games on July 22 to earn selection for the Olympic Games in Rio.
Blake, who finished second to Bolt at the London Games in the 100, said he was confident that the world-record-holder will be in Rio.....
18 year old Vashti Cunningham (Bishop Gorman High School, Summerlin, NV) made the U.S. Olympic Team qualifying 2nd in the Women's High Jump.
She is the youngest U.S. track and field athlete to reach the Olympics since 1980.
Vashti is the daughter of former NFL Pro Bowl Quarterback Randall Cunningham.
16-Year-Old Sydney McLaughlin finished 3rd in the Women's 400m hurdles.
Behind a blistering pace and meet record set by Dalilah Muhammed, high school junior Sydney McLaughlin broke the 400 hurdles world junior record and clinched an Olympic berth. Muhammed ran 52.88 to become the No. 5 American performer of all time, Ashley Spencer finished second after running three full rounds in the 400 and the 400 hurdles, and McLaughlin ran 54.15 to break the decade-old world junior record.
Muhammed torched the field early, but McLaughlin was part of a large group fighting for the last two spots over the last three hurdles. Spencer grabbed second out of lane seven and McLaughlin, in the middle of the track, beat Kori Carter by 0.3 for the last ticket to Rio.
Parts of a mutilated body washed up on the sands of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, police said, just meters (yards) from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the upcoming Olympics.
A young lady from my small town of Cabot, AR just made it to Rio with the women's pole vault team. She is a freshman at U of A in Fayetteville. Not bad for a rookie!
The fire alarms in the building had been deactivated without Australian officials being told and veteran shooter Warren Potent revealed he slept through the scare, not woken by door knocking or phone calls.
"Obviously that is completely unacceptable that (a) the fire alarm was disabled and (b) that if it had to be, that we weren't warned about that," Australian chef de mission Kitty Chiller said.