Good times but too much wind at the Mohammed VI International Athletics Meeting

As expected, the sixth edition of the Mohammed VI International Athletics Meeting was crowned with full success: good times and a large public who were able to see up close a whole array of big names who travelled to the Moulay Abdellah Complex in Rabat to take part in this 8th stage of the IAAF World Challenge circuit.Given the athletes entered, it was the 100m race, the flagship event of the meetings, that stole the show. A race where everyone was expecting another brilliant performance from the American Justin Gatlin who, last Thursday in Rome, had beaten Usain Bolt, causing him to suffer his third setback since 2008. Except that in Rabat, it was the European champion, the Frenchman Christophe Lemaître, who distinguished himself in the best possible way, entering in pole position with a time of 9.98 sec. An excellent time but which, alas, was not homologated due to a strong wind blow…