• ‘He’s a really good finisher,’ says Noah Lyles
It was possible to get odds of 40-1 with one leading bookmaker on Sunday for Reece Prescod to win 100m gold at the Tokyo Olympics, which will sound extraordinarily generous to anyone who saw the 22-year-old Londoner’s stunning run at the Birmingham Diamond League on Saturday.
It was not just the fact that Prescod set a new personal best of 9.94sec, putting him in the world’s top 10 sprinters this year. It was the way he did it. For despite starting like a man whose spikes had been superglued to his blocks, and being left several metres behind Christian Coleman at halfway, he finished so quickly he was just a thousandth of a second behind the American victor at the finish.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/19/reece-prescod-birmingham-grand-prix under the title “Reece Prescod’s gloss finish suggests he can be a real force in Tokyo”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
