MEDAL FAVORITES CRASHED OUT OF THE OLYMPICS AFTER SLOWING DOWN ON PURPOSE
Medal favourite OUT of 200m in the heats after slowing down & jogging in huge misjudgement
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson bowed out of the 200m event at the Olympics due to a lack of judgement towards the end of her race.
Jackson was competing in this discipline for the first time at an Olympics and she was one of the contenders to win a medal. The 27-year-old seemed well on course to qualify for the semi-finals,
But she slowed down intentionally during the final 50m and ended up paying dearly for it as she finished fourth in the heat, clocking 23.26s. This saw him eliminated.
Jackson's misjudgement allowed Portugal's Lorene Bazolo ad Italy's Dalia Kaddari to reach the semi-finals along with Bahamian Anthonique Strachan, who won the heat.
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