‘This one will be special’ - Chalmers ready for Olympic semi-final
Alastair Chalmers will line up for an Olympic semi-final this evening.
The Guernsey ace goes at 6.51pm BST in the third and last of tonight's 400m hurdles semis at Paris' Stade de France, having two days earlier qualified automatically with a top-three finish in his heat.
His season's best of 48.54sec. ranks him sixth fastest in a semi headed by USA superstar Rai Benjamin.
Chalmers is running from lane nine and will need a massive performance to make the final, with only the top two per semi progressing, plus another two 'fastest loser' spots available.
But the 24-year-old told his social media fans yesterday evening that he is 'feeling more determined than ever'.
'When you're in a semi-final, you can sometimes kind of sneak into the final,' he had said in an earlier Guernsey Press Sport Podcast interview.
