Kendra Harrison breaks 28-year record in 100-meter hurdles

Kendra Harrison broke the 28-year 100m hurdles world record Friday at the London Diamond League meeting but she won’t be able to run at the Rio Olympics.

The world’s fastest man Usain Bolt said he was pleased with win in the 200m at the Muller Anniversary Games- the London Diamond League and had some words for those who have criticised his missing the Jamaican Olympic trials after receiving a medical exemption.

The 23-year-old Harrison ran 12.20 seconds on the site of the 2012 Olympics to surpass Yordanka Donkova’s previous mark of 12.21 set in August 1988; before the American was born.

Harrison was a sure-fired favorite before the American trials to make the US team and win gold at Rio after running the second-fastest 100 meters hurdles ever in May. “I was really heartbroken”.

“I knew this was the only way I was going to make myself feel better, to get back to training and go after that world record”, she said.

Two-time Olympic pole vault champ Yelena Isinbayeva, Russia’s most famous track and field athlete, said she sees “no sense in continuing my training further”, according to her social media translated by Russian media.

“I tried to hold my form. The execution up there wasn’t ideal but it was my first run so I can’t complain”.

“I had vengeance on my mind and wanted to show the girls what I had”. “That 12.40 got my confidence back”.

“I felt it was a joke”, Bolt said.

“At the end of the day, when you command a certain power in track and field, you sometimes you have to exercise it. I think that’s what he’s doing.”

Her accomplishment will be quite the embarassment for the United States system, that determines its’ selection process exclusively on one event.

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