Tokyo: Torrie Lewis clearly races well when she is angry.
She was cranky with herself after her 100-metre semi-final, and three nights later she took it out on the track in her 200m heat.
Lewis ran a personal-best 22.56 seconds in an aggressive run, chasing Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith on her inside lane to do as she did in the 100m and make it through to the semi-finals. She came second to Asher-Smith’s 22.40s.
Lewis’ time was the eighth-quickest of the heats and made for a sprint semi-final double for her.
It was some satisfaction for the 20-year-old, who, despite running one of the fastest times ever by an Australian on Sunday night, was still dirty on herself for not doing better, and missing a chance to do something special. No one else thought likewise, or had any sense of d