A collision involving a cart carrying athletes to their event in Budapest sends glass shards flying into the right eye of Jamaican sprinter Andrew Hudson.
abc.net.au/news/world-athletics-championships-andrew-hudson-blurred-vision/102774786A collision involving a cart carrying athletes to their event at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest sent glass shards flying into the right eye of Jamaican sprinter Andrew Hudson, forcing him to race with blurred vision.Hudson says he could not see out of his right eyeHudson, competing in the men's 200 metres semifinals, said doctors had flushed some of the glass out after the accident.
American gold-medal favourite Noah Lyles and others were in the cart with Hudson as it transported the sprinters from their warm-ups to a waiting room near the track for what was supposed to be the first of the evening's three semifinal races.Another cart coming from a path to the left hits the athletes' vehicle, sending a volunteer tumbling out.
A spokesperson from Budapest's local organising committee said it was "investigating the incident and reviewing the transport procedures".Hudson was still shaken as he wound his way out of the post-race interviews and back toward the medical tent."It's my eyesight. That's more important. I'm not going to run track forever, but it just happens."
In the absence of world-record holder and reigning champion, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Femke Bol of Netherlands won the women's 400m hurdles final in 51.70.
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