World Cup Thursday was also dramatic outside the stadium. Jamaican Andrew Hudson is allowed to run the 200m final despite his time in the semis falling short – after he received shards of glass in his eyes from a golf cart crash.
Thursday offered, among other things, the men’s 200 semi-finals. These were delayed after an accident outside the WC arena in Budapest.
Additionally, the heat order was reshuffled after a golf cart carrying the first semi’s runner collided with another golf cart.
See the collision by clicking on the main image of the article!
An official from the other car fell off in connection with the collision.
Got a free ticket to the final
On the athletes’ minibus sat American superstar Noah Lyles, among others. His Jamaican competitor Andrew Hudson was the one most affected by the crash.
The Jamaican covered his eye immediately after the bang.
– I immediately realized that something hit my eye when we collided. I looked down and saw glass on the bench and on my backpack. I got hit in my knee but that wasn’t the problem – it was the pieces of glass in my eye that were the problem, Hudson told Yle.
At the arena, a doctor cleaned Hudson’s eye. He then had three minutes to decide whether to run in the semi-finals – which he chose to do.
Lyles eventually took home the heat comfortably with a time of 19.76. Hudson, in turn, was fifth with 20.38 – while still needing a doctor.
– I’m going back and make sure we remove all the broken glass.
His time was not really enough for the final, but later it became clear that Hudson will get to run on the ninth lane in tomorrow’s final after all.
2023-08-24 20:31:18
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