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Peter Bol Bol Once again in Tokyo has broken heart
For the second time, Tokyo was rude for Peter Bol.
Four years after missing the Olympic medal for half a second, abundant was removed from the world championships.
This time the crowds filled the stands and were unknown, but the margins were as thin and fate as cruel.
Peter Bol was disappointed in the 800 -meter heat.Credit: Getty Images
Abundant, the suffocating of the National Stadium of Japan was 30 degrees, at night humidity at a temperature of 800 meters, but at 1:15.15, it was immersed in the fourth end of the fourth.
It looked very comfortable – without doing it. He told him to be patient and wasn’t. He knew he had a move to make plenty and in a hurry he did three.
Impatience cost him somewhere in the semi -finals.
However, the certainty of this destiny could not be secured until the last heat was applied. In heat, the first three runners pass and pass three times as fastest. Until the last heat, the abundant was still the fastest, and the chance of not to progress yet despite a weak run.
Australian star Peter Bol.Credit: Getty Images
The last heat decided – pushed from abundant qualities and joined the semi -finished Peyton Craig and Luke Boyes.
Bol said, “It was probably the most stressful championships I’ve expected there.”
“Clearly [it was] A disappointing race, but [I made] A little [an] mistake. This is a patient game and always the first three, which is always the most sick, and I didn’t have enough patience there.
“You must be patient, you have 800 and you have a move and I made three, so I don’t make too much moves. You just have a movement and you should go and you have to go into absolute excellence and just evaluated it wrong.”
The disappointment for abundant, the fact that he had a extraordinary year – reduced his Australian record to 1: 42.55 in Monaco in July this year.
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“Obviously there is a little disappointment, it was not half, but also a quite incredible season,” he said.
“I think it’s hard to finish badly, but it’s an incredible season compared to last year and years.”
Now a father and senior abundant, Wednesday night (Aest) with the Gut Gut, who made his big output.
Bol said, orum I’m trying not to tell him anything, because if you just see it somehow and better how we run ourselves, ”he said.
“I was running with him in Monaco and I said watch me, I’m calm, you [still] Be tense – part of the game. You still go there and compete, so he knows what to do. “
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