Qatar’s Femi Ogunode won the Asian Games
100 metres gold in a new continental record
time of 9.93 seconds despite wet conditions in
Incheon on Sunday, AFP reports.
Nigerian-born Ogunode, who won the
200-400m double at the 2010 Asiad, beat
China’s Su Bingtan, with Japan’s Kei Takase
third.


Hopes for an Asia-born athlete finally breaking
the 10-second barrier sank with Su crossing in
10.10 and his Chinese teammate Zhang
Peimeng timing 10.18 in fourth.
Ogunode’s win is Qatar’s second athletics gold
of the tournament, pulling them level in their
shootout with fellow wealthy Gulf state
Bahrain.
His time bettered the 9.99 that teammate
Samuel Francis ran at the Asian Championships
in 2007. Francis, visibly struggling with a leg
injury, finished last.







Meanwhile, Ogunode says he can outsprint
Usain Bolt to gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio
de Janeiro – even without the help of a coach.
Ogunode told reporters he would now turn his
attention to next year’s world championships
and then to the Olympics in Brazil the
following summer.
Asked if he could beat Jamaica’s Bolt – the
world’s fastest man at 9.58sec –Ogunode ,
according to The Malaysian Insider, said, “I
have confidence in myself that I can challenge
anybody.”

“I see myself winning the gold medal in Rio.”
He added, “I am fine without a coach, I know
what to do,” said the confident sprinter, who
returned from a lengthy doping ban at the
start of this year.
“Without a coach I can discipline myself and
train myself. I’ve been training alone. When
I’m training myself I believe in myself so
strongly and I improve so much.”

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