Follow all the action from Doha as the championships kick offSean Ingle: $4.5m Doha cash plan investigated by judgesEmail Tumaini or tweet with your thoughts on the action 2.49pm BST We’re finally underway and the 100 metres prelims are on the track. So far, Taymir Burnet of the Netherlands won the first preliminary heat with 10.23 and South Korea’s Kukyoung Kim took the second with 10.32. First place in each heat and the next five fastest will all make it to the main heats later today. 2.40pm BST BBC’s Michael Johnson was perceptive as ever on the subject of athletics moving on after Usain Bolt:“Any time someone shows some personality on the track, the first thing people say is: ‘the sport needs that, this is what the sport needs!’ We had the best showman ever in sport, for 10 years, Usain Bolt. Did this sport end up improving because of that? No. We’re still in the situation where the sport needs better marketing. “We need to focus more on the competition between the athletes as opposed to finding another Usain Bolt and just putting all of the attention on him... [Bolt] didn’t bring more sponsors in the sport, didn’t create more media around the sport. When he left, all of the following for Usain Bolt went with Usain Bolt.” Continue reading...
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