Reigning men's 100 meter world champion Fred Kerley will not be able to defend his title after a shocking third-place result in his semifinal heat at the World Athletics championships in Budapest, Hungary.
The American was in the third of three semifinals and did not look like himself, seemingly unable to reach and maintain the top speed we've gotten used to seeing from him in recent years.
The top two finishers in each heat automatically moved on to the final plus the next two fastest times; Kerley missed out on one of those two spots by one one-hundreth of a second. Watching a replay of the race and asked to critique what happened, Kerley said,"I think everything was good. I'm blessed, I'm healthy, and hey, they got the better of me. ...I should have been there but I [expletive] up. Life move on."
Noah Lyles, who has been saying for weeks that his goal is to win both the 100m and 200m at Worlds, had the fastest time in the semifinals at 9.87 seconds. Lyles is the two-time defending world champion in the 200m and is trying to become the first man to win the 100-200 double at a major championship since Usain Bolt at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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