Reuters
Olympics-Athletics-Knighton ready to fill Bolt’s shoes, De Grasse fastest into 200m final
Usain Bolt has gone but there looks to be a more than worthy heir to the crown in the shape of 17-year-old Erriyon Knighton, who qualified for the Olympic 200 metres final with the sort of nonchalant ease that would have made the great Jamaican smile. The Americans last won gold in the men’s 200m in the 2004 Olympics, when Shawn Crawford led home a U.S. clean sweep, and they look capable of repeating that. However, world champion and world leader Noah Lyles cut it fine to qualify, easing up so dramatically that Canada’s Aaron Brown and Liberia’s 19-year-old Joseph Fahnbulleh, who somehow made up about two metres in the last few strides, caught him.