Fourteen years ago, during the Athens Olympic Games, Dina Asher-Smith drew a picture of herself with six words scribbled underneath: “I want to win the Olympics.” After what we have seen in Berlin this past week, that increasingly looks like a precocious act of prophesy.
It isn’t just that the 22-year-old’s stunning 100m gold on Tuesday was followed by an even more emphatic performance in the 200m on Saturday night. Or that her old British records were hung, drawn and quartered in the process. It is the fact that she has soared into a hyper-rarified atmosphere, running times – 10.85sec for the 100m and 21.89 for the 200m – that would have won gold medals at last year’s world championships in London.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/12/dina-asher-smith-european-championships under the title “Dina Asher-Smith has stunned Berlin. Other Britons must now grab baton”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
