Taking both 100m titles at European championships gives rise to talk of Britain overtaking Jamaica in sprinting stakes
After a golden night, an emboldened morning. Zharnel Hughes was still groggy-eyed after storming to European 100m gold – a lack of sleep rather than a celebratory blowout was to blame – but his vision of British sprinting’s future was delivered with startling clarity. “I think this is a golden generation,” he said. “A new breed.”
And then, after rattling off the names of Dina Asher-Smith, Reece Prescod and CJ Ujah – as well as Adam Gemili and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, who have qualified for tonight’s 200m final – Hughes made another extraordinary prediction.
Written by Sean Ingle in Berlin
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/08/dina-asher-smith-zharnel-hughes-sprint-golden-generation under the title “Vision of sprint ‘golden generation’ after Asher-Smith and Hughes golds”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
