Olympic champs set up Comm Games classic
Olympic
champion Elaine Thompson and world bronze medallist Shaunae Miller-Uibo
are shaping up for what could be the highlight of the Commonwealth
Games, cruising into the semi-finals of the 200m at Carrara Stadium.
Miller-Uibo says she's here to have fun in the 200m while using it to improve her opening speed in the 400m which she won spectacularly at the Rio Olympics when she dived across the finish line to beat American Alyson Felix.
But the Bahamian looked serious in Tuesday's heats, comfortably winning in 22.95 seconds, just ahead of Thompson clocked 23.09 in hers.
"It all went to plan, I think I did a pretty good job today, I have only been here five or six days and I have only just started to acclimatise," Miller-Uibo said after her heat.
She won bronze at the world championships in London last year and is bypassing the 400m on the Gold Coast.
"My coach believes the first 200m is my weakness (in the 400m), so I have been sent out to run the 200m. I am having a bit of fun with it," she said.
Thompson, Jamaica's Olympic 100m and 200m champion, is opting for the longer sprint and relay only at Carrara, to promise a facinating showdown with Miller-Uibo.
South Africa's new breed of male sprinters also eased into the 200m semis as Clarence Munyai and Anaso Jobodwana are out to emulate their 100m countrymen with another South African sprint double.
Munyai, who set a national record of 19.69 seconds last month - the fastest 200m in the world since 2015, strolled to victory in his heat in 20.95.
Jobodwana was even more impressive in 20.89.
After Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjie took the gold and silver double in the 100m on Monday night, leaving Jamaican gun Yohan Blake in third, Munyai and Anaso Jobodwana are every chance of repeating the feat.
While Australia took the men's and women's double in the cycling time trial on Tuesday, England suffered an embarrassing blunder when officials didn't enter their medal chance.
Cameron Meyer and Katrin Garfoot won gold for Australia at Currumbin as England's Melissa Lowther sat shattered on the sidelines after the team failed to lodge her entry in time to race.
"I'm gutted not to have the opportunity to represent my country after all the hard miles I've put in," said Lowther, who will still compete in Saturday's road race.
"I can't put into words how disappointed I am to have been missed off the start list due to an admin error."
England's Chef de Mission Sarah Winckless apologised and said there would be a review to determine how such a glaring error had been made.
Team England also suffered from the withdrawal of world champion diver Tom Daley from the 10m platform due to a hip injury.
by AAP Newswire
Miller-Uibo says she's here to have fun in the 200m while using it to improve her opening speed in the 400m which she won spectacularly at the Rio Olympics when she dived across the finish line to beat American Alyson Felix.
But the Bahamian looked serious in Tuesday's heats, comfortably winning in 22.95 seconds, just ahead of Thompson clocked 23.09 in hers.
"It all went to plan, I think I did a pretty good job today, I have only been here five or six days and I have only just started to acclimatise," Miller-Uibo said after her heat.
She won bronze at the world championships in London last year and is bypassing the 400m on the Gold Coast.
"My coach believes the first 200m is my weakness (in the 400m), so I have been sent out to run the 200m. I am having a bit of fun with it," she said.
Thompson, Jamaica's Olympic 100m and 200m champion, is opting for the longer sprint and relay only at Carrara, to promise a facinating showdown with Miller-Uibo.
South Africa's new breed of male sprinters also eased into the 200m semis as Clarence Munyai and Anaso Jobodwana are out to emulate their 100m countrymen with another South African sprint double.
Munyai, who set a national record of 19.69 seconds last month - the fastest 200m in the world since 2015, strolled to victory in his heat in 20.95.
Jobodwana was even more impressive in 20.89.
After Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjie took the gold and silver double in the 100m on Monday night, leaving Jamaican gun Yohan Blake in third, Munyai and Anaso Jobodwana are every chance of repeating the feat.
While Australia took the men's and women's double in the cycling time trial on Tuesday, England suffered an embarrassing blunder when officials didn't enter their medal chance.
Cameron Meyer and Katrin Garfoot won gold for Australia at Currumbin as England's Melissa Lowther sat shattered on the sidelines after the team failed to lodge her entry in time to race.
"I'm gutted not to have the opportunity to represent my country after all the hard miles I've put in," said Lowther, who will still compete in Saturday's road race.
"I can't put into words how disappointed I am to have been missed off the start list due to an admin error."
England's Chef de Mission Sarah Winckless apologised and said there would be a review to determine how such a glaring error had been made.
Team England also suffered from the withdrawal of world champion diver Tom Daley from the 10m platform due to a hip injury.
by AAP Newswire
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