Felix can go for Rio double after schedule change
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The Rio Olympics athletics program has been modified slightly in a move that will allow American Allyson Felix to attempt a 200-meter-400m double, the International Association of Athletics Federations said on Saturday.
In a release posted on the global federation’s website, the IAAF said the International Olympic Committee and Rio Games organizers had agreed to implement “a minor swap between the women’s 200m and 400m hurdles on 15 August”. Under the new schedule, the first round of the women’s 200, which was formerly in the evening, will be held in the morning, switching places with the 400 hurdles first round. The moves means Felix, the Olympic 200 gold medalist and 400 world champion, will now have more than 13 hours between races — rather than little more than an hour between an opening 200 heat and the 400 final. “This change to the timetable makes it more feasible for women to compete in both the 200m and 400m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games,” the IAAF said. Felix, 30, now has a chance to join American Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984 and France’s Marie-Jose Perce in 1996 as the only women to complete an Olympic 200-400 double.
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