Miller-Uibo entered in both 200m and 400m

Tue, Jul 27th 2021, 08:08 AM

TOKYO, Japan – Less than a week before the start of the athletics portion of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the jury is still out on whether or not Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo will run just the 200 meters (m), defend her Olympic title in the 400m, or contest both.

She is entered for both events at the Olympics here in Tokyo, Japan, but a final decision of what event she will run, or whether or not she will contest both, likely won’t come until the scratch meeting this week. The same is the case for Bahamian World Champion in the men’s 400m Steven Gardiner.

As for Miller-Uibo, she has said all season long that she would concentrate on the 200m, seeing that she already has an Olympic title in the longer race. The two events clash in the middle of the track portion of the games, with the heats of the women’s 400m and the final of the women’s 200m on the same day.

Miller-Uibo beckoned World Athletics (WA), with the assistance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), for a schedule change for the past two seasons, looking for the events to be spaced out further to accommodate her in going after the double (running both events). It has been done for others, including Americans 

Michael Johnson and Allyson Felix in the past.

When her latest request was denied, Miller-Uibo stated her intention of going after just the 200m title at the Olympics as opposed to defending her Olympic crown in the 400m.

“We’re just asking them to clear it up a little bit more for us, where we can focus on three (rounds in the 200m) and then focus on the other three (rounds in the 400m),” she said in an earlier interview. “I think it’s always been so simple for the 100m/200m runners. The 200m/400m, being a more complex double, I think we’re asking for a day, if they can at least do that for us.”

However, when the topic was revisited at the 

Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ (BAAA) Junior and Senior National Track and Field Championships at the end of June in which she contested both events, Miller-Uibo simply said “we’ll see”, leaving the door open for a possible double run.

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