A difficult week on Aaron Brown’s track he began with his slowest career of the 200 -meter season and ended up disqualification for the four -time Canadian Olympic at the same event on Sunday in Stockholm.
Brown exploded from the starting blocks too early for a false start at the Olympic stadium, only minutes after the eight masculine field was shown a green card to indicate a false beginning that was not the fault of any athlete.
“Long Hold with the [start] Gun, “is what Toronto’s native attributed to his false beginning, in a text message to CBC Sports. He was subsequently disqualified but ran under protest for the Bauhaus-Galan Diamond League athletics meeting.
Brown believed it was Bang-Bangreferring to the verbal command “established” followed by the shot of an initial gunBut race officials thought otherwise. His protest was rejected.
“I don’t get an explanation,” Brown said, fresh from a sixth place Thursday at the Bisett Games in Oslo, Norway, where he ran 20.65 seconds.
“All my career plan was thrown after the false beginning. Everything I was thinking [after the reset] It was, ‘Do not start false’, instead of me [race] execution.
“The first step to turn it around is to accept what happened, and now it is behind me. I have had difficult stretching before and overcome, so I stay positive.”
Look | Brown dq’d in 200m for men, won by Cuba’s Mena:
Aaron Brown by Toronto False began leaving the Diamond League on Sunday in 200 meters in Stockholm, Reynier Mena de Cuba won in a time of 20.05.
At the Paris Olympic Games last summer, Brown False began in the 100 -meter heats, but ran in the semifinals four days later.
The false began in the semifinals of 200 m of the World Athletics Championship of 2023 in Budapest, Hungary for stepping on the line that separates the lanes. Brown’s time of 20.19 would have described it for the final.
Blessing disguised?
In 2017 Worlds, Brown published the second time faster in the 200 calories before being disqualified by a lane rape.
Maybe it was a disguised blessing that did not compete on Sunday.
“I’ve been dealing with a little hip situation,” said Brown, 33, “and expected power through him to get some world [championship] classification points “.
He entered the Sunday race 31 in the world classification quota among the 48 athletes that were selected for championships from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo.
Brown was seventh in the 2022 world final in Eugene, Oregon, and sixth in 2019 (Doha, Qatar).
The current Canadian champion in 200 did not reveal when he would return to competition.
“I’m going home [to Florida] To restart and get a bit of quality training, “said the father of two children.”[I’ll] Go back when you are better prepared to compete. “
Views established in the 2028 Olympic Games
The fastest of three complete races of Brown this season was the first, 20.35 on May 16 in the action of the Diamond League in Doha. He continued with an effort of 20.50 for third place in the Grand Slam Track competition in Miramar, Fla.
Brown has his eyes on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. As the beginning of his 2025 campaign approached, he told CBC Sports that he focused on “pushing the limits and seeing how far I can take it.”
Reynier Mena de Cuba won his second career of the Diamond and Sixth League week in his last seven competitions.
“All hard work in training is paying off,” said Mena, who ran 20.20 in Oslo. “I have become faster in each race and I hope to spend less than 20 seconds soon. I must continue working hard and believing in myself. I feel that I can approach and break my best. [of 19.63]. My next race is [the] Ostrava [Golden Spike on June 24 in the Czech Republic] where I hope to keep running well. “
His 20.05 block is the best of the season and surpassed Joseph Fahnbulleh (20.32) of the season, which is a Liberian-American sprinter, twice an Olympic finalist and twice NCAA champion in 200.
“This stadium is really historical, like a castle,” said Fahnbulleh. “You can listen to the audience and that helps when you start pushing. I’ve been training in Europe during the last month, back home once and waiting for Tokyo [and the world championships]”
Kyree King of the United States crossed the line in 20.49 for the third.
Duplantis achieves the world’s first brand on home in home
Mondo Duplantis lifted his world jump with pole jumping at 6.28 meters at the Olympic stadium in the Swedish capital.
The Olympic and World Champion added a centimeter in his first attempt to the previous record he established at the end of February in France.
It was the worldwide record of the twelfth jump with Pole for the Swedish of 25 years and the first time in front of local fans.
Look | Pole Voulter Duplantis elevates the world record to 6.28m before the local crowd:
The two -time Olympic champion of pole jumping Armand Duplantis of Sweden established a new world record on Sunday at the Diamond League event in Stockholm jumping more than 6.28 meters.
Before the Stockholm meeting, Duplantis said that establishing a world record at home was one of his dreams.
“It’s a magical feeling,” said Duplantis later. “I wanted it so much,” he said. “I kept saying that it was the only thing I lacked. Now, I’ve finished. I can relax.”
The duplicate born in Louisiana competes for his mother’s native, Sweden.
After cleaning 6.00, Duplantis did not sign up for its own 6.16 meeting record, but went straight to the world record.
Celebrating the shirt and pumping his fist for the delight of roaring fans in the crowd sold.
