'Shards of glass' in runner's eye as crash mars worlds

A collision involving a cart carrying Noah Lyles and his opponents successful the 200-metre semi-finals astatine the satellite athletics championships sent solid shards flying into the close oculus of Jamaica's Andrew Hudson, forcing him to contention with blurred vision.

An aerial video taken extracurricular the stadium shows the cart carrying the athletes cruising down a way to bring the athletes to the warm-up country adjacent the track. An oncoming cart hits the athletes' cart and a unpaid tumbles retired of the archetypal cart.

The video past shifts to wrong the cart wherever Hudson is pressing his fingers against his close eye. He was cleared to compete, but aft finishing fifth, said helium couldn't truly see.

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"I can’t spot retired of my close eye, but I’m OK," Hudson said aft the race. “The doc flushed retired immoderate shards of glass.”

He said helium was heading backmost to the aesculapian country to marque definite determination wasn't immoderate further damage. World Athletics said the unpaid was “fine".

Lyles won the contention successful 19.76 seconds to marque the final, wherever he'll effort to support his 200-metre rubric and adhd it to the 100 helium won earlier this week. Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic finished second.

“It was a large fright,” said Tarsis Orogot, who finished third. “We’re not paying attention. We were each conscionable locked successful and past retired of nowhere, idiosyncratic shoved into america there.”

The Lyles contention was expected to beryllium the archetypal of the night's 3 semi-finals, but ended up moving last, astir a fractional hr aft it had been scheduled.

“I don’t cognize what happened. It’s a blur, literally,” Hudson said. “The contention was a blur. My eyesight is simply a blur. I’m going to spell marque definite my eyesight is OK.”