Abi Oyepitan has demonstrated her enormous potential by qualifying for the final of the 200m on her Olympic debut.
The 24-year-old Londoner finished second in the first semi-final in a time of 22.56 seconds, just six hundredths of a second outside the personal best she set in the first round.
”It’s indescribable, I can’t believe it,” said Oyepitan.
”There is nothing like it. I didn’t work in the first 100m and I think there is a lot more to come.”
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She is the first British woman to reach the Olympic 200m final since Kathy Cook in 1984, and added: ”Someone told me that earlier and it’s fantastic.
”I’m in an Olympic final, what can I say?
”I slept really well, had a nice bath and hopefully it will be the same tomorrow.
”I probably won’t sleep at all though because it’s the Olympic final, but I don’t care.”