Keely Hodgkinson uses a fan to cool off after running the 800m at the World Championships in Athletics in Budapest. Credit: Getty Images/Sean Botterill
Keely Hodgkinson slams 'appalling' conditions at the World Championships in Athletics after qualifying for the 800m semi-finals in sweltering heat following a surprise anti-doping test at 6am the day before.
< p>Hodgkinson, European champion and Olympic silver medalist, overcame her run, discovering just minutes before the race that her main rival, the American Ating Moo, would be defending her world title.
Mu, who is also a world champion The Olympic champion has left the other women guessing that she may miss the championship, but is in Budapest and looked comfortable in qualifying, almost at the same time as Hodgkinson.
To organizers scheduled 5000m races have already had to be rescheduled due to heat waves in Hungary, which prompted the government to issue a health warning and advise people not to go outside between 11:00 and 17:00.
Hodgkinson's first lap race took place at 10.05 am, and as temperatures were already approaching 30°C, little wind and high humidity, she used a hand fan immediately after the finish. The British team also uses ice packs, vests and towels, and some countries have brought ice pools for children so that their athletes can use them before and after the competition.
«Conditions are terrible — combined with 6am [anti-doping test] doesn't bode well for me — but I did it,» Hodgkinson said. “I like to sleep, and yesterday at 6 am the anti-doping officers came to me, so I was not happy. I thought, «Of all days.» But that's part of the job.»
Hodgkinson came to watch Sunday night as Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jarnel Hughes won medals, describing the experience as «exhausting» in temperatures that regularly hit the mid-30s.< /p>Kow warns about the threat of global warming to athletics.
This follows World Athletics Association president Seb Coe's repeated warnings that climate change and evidence of rising global temperatures could affect both the venue for major championships and whether events such as a marathon should be held. place at different times of the year.
Oh Moo Hodgkinson said: “I saw her at the warm-up. I was just running, she passed me by, and I was like, “Oh, she came,” because no one knew. This is the first time I found out. It's good that she's here.»
Daryl Neita, Dina Asher-Smith, Bianca Williams and Hughes made progress in the men's and women's 200m on Wednesday morning. Hughes, who just won bronze in the 100m, described it as «a walk in the park… like a Sunday run.»
Hodgkinson's anti-doping test is in line with data released by the Office of Athletics Integrity, which shows that: of the 78 British athletes who competed at last year's World Championships in Eugene, 21 percent had not been tested out-of-competition in the previous 10 months.
The figures also show that British athletes were subjected to an average of 2.42 out-of-competition tests during this period . This figure is lower than in the US, Germany, Sweden and Canada, comparable to Poland and the Netherlands and slightly ahead of Jamaica, Australia, Italy and France.
The UK Anti-Doping Service says it has a based on data and risk analysis as part of an approach that includes education of athletes and coaches.
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