He was set to race against Italy's Marcell Jacobs but pulled out at the last minute.
PARIS – A dramatic Olympic debut for Marc Louis saw him progress from the preliminary round to earn a dream Round 1 heat against Italy’s defending men’s 100m champion Marcell Jacobs on Aug 3, but when the time came, there was a gaping space in Lane 8 where Singapore’s fastest man should have been.
In Heat 5 of Round 1 at the Stade de France, Jacobs was outsprinted as he clocked 10.05sec to finish second behind Nigeria’s Kayinsola Ajayi while Ghana’s Abdul-Rasheed Saminu edged South African Benjamin Richardson by just seven-thousandths of a second in a photo finish to place third. Earlier in the preliminary rounds, Louis completed the first heat in 10.43 and finished third out of seven runners behind Gambia’s Ebrahima Camara and Malaysia’s Azeem Fahmi .
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