Athletics: Robles advances to final

GUADALAJARA: Cuba’s Dayron Robles, looking to make up for being stripped of the gold medal at the world championships, cruised through the Pan-American Games high hurdles semi-finals. The Olympic champion and world record holder, disqualified for barging past China’s Liu Xiang as he won the world championship final in Daegu in August, clocked a comfortable 13.22 seconds as the fastest qualifier for the final. Meanwhile, compatriot Alexis Copello, who was fourth in the triple jump in South Korea, won the Pan-American title with a leap of 17.21 metres ahead of Yoandris Betanzos, who took the silver medal.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29^th, 2011.