{"id":21778,"date":"2024-08-27T20:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21778"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:12:57","slug":"emanuel-archibald-exits-2024-olympics-after-disappointing-100-meter-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/emanuel-archibald-exits-2024-olympics-after-disappointing-100-meter-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Emanuel Archibald Exits 2024 Olympics After Disappointing 100-Meter Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s top sprinter, Emanuel Archibald, faced a setback at the 2024 Paris Olympics, failing to advance from the men&#8217;s 100-meter heat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competing from lane 6, Archibald struggled with a slow start and ultimately finished in eighth place with a time of 10.40 seconds\u2014one of his slowest performances this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Akani Simbine won the heat with a time of 10.03 seconds, followed by Jamaica\u2019s Ackeem Blake in 10.06 seconds and the British Virgin Islands\u2019 Rikkoi Brathwaite in 10.13 seconds. Archibald, who entered the games with a personal best of 10.09 seconds achieved earlier this year, was aiming to maintain his excellent form and progress to the next round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Archibald did not qualify for the semifinals, where only the top three finishers in each heat and the next three fastest athletes advance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brathwaite and Blake are the only Caribbean athletes moving forward to the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, Aliyah Abrams, a three-time Olympian, is scheduled to compete in the women\u2019s 400 meters event on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana&#8217;s top sprinter, Emanuel Archibald, faced a setback at the 2024 Paris Olympics, failing to advance from the men&#8217;s 100-meter heat. Competing from lane 6, Archibald struggled with a slow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21780,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions\/21780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}