Team GB’s Cindy Sember fights back tears after suffering agonising fall during the 100m hurdles semi-final and failing to qualify for Olympic final – as she admits ‘I’m really sad’
Team GB’s Cindy Sember was left devastated on Friday morning after suffering a painful fall during the women’s 100m hurdles semi-final at the Paris Olympics on Friday afternoon.
That means she won’t make it to the finals of the event. After the race, a heartbroken Sember admitted she was “really sad.”
The British hurdler had a great start, building up speed through the first few hurdles, but at the seventh hurdle of the 100m sprint she touched her back leg.
As she staggered forward, Sember could no longer control herself and crashed into the eighth barrier. She fell forward and took a heartbreaking fall, landing on her hands and then rolling onto her back.
Fortunately, Sember appeared unharmed by the fall, but she looked frustrated on the ground, banging her fist on the track before lying down and holding her hands above her head.
“I’m okay. I’m really sad. I’m just frustrated because I’ve trained so hard, I’m ready – I’m sad,” Sember told the BBC after crashing out of the race.
‘I felt like I was approaching the hurdles very quickly and unfortunately I lost control.
“I was totally ready for it, it’s a little hard to comprehend. But I trust God to do it.”
World number 1 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn took victory with a time of 12.35, while American Masai Russell, Jamaicans Ackera Nugent and Cyrena Samba-Mayela also qualified for the final.
The medal match takes place later tonight at 18:35 (BST). World number two Devynne Charlton is the hot favourite to challenge Camacho-Quinn, who won gold in Tokyo, for the top spot in Paris.
More to come…