Sprint sensation Torrie Lewis is Australia’s fastest woman over 100 metres, but she won’t compete in the blue-ribbon event at Paris.
She is Australia’s fastest woman but Torrie Lewis has confirmed she won’t compete in the fastest race at the Olympics.
The 19-year-old Lewis, who broke the national 100m record in January this year when she ran 11.1sec, will only run the 200m and the 4x100m relay but not the individual 100m sprint.in a 200m race in the Diamond League.She had harboured ambitions to do the sprint double as well as the relay, but had to shelve those plans.
Australia’s best-performed international sprinter Rohan Browning will be added to the relay squad for Paris.AA will announce its final team for the Olympics on Monday. All countries have to nominate their teams with World Athletics on Friday and the world body will confirm places by Sunday.
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