FIL-AM sprinter Kristina Knott intends to take it “one step at a time” when she competes in the women’s 200 meter dash of the Tokyo Olympics athletics competitions set to unfold on July 30 at the Japan National Stadium, according to deputy athletics head Edward Kho.
“The target is really to go one step at time beginning with the heats on Aug. 2,” Kho said in an interview with Radyo Pilipinaslate Tuesday.
Knott is the country’s first sprinter to compete in the Olympics since Lerma Bulauitan ran the women’s 100-meter dash in the 2000 Sydney Olympiad.
A double gold medalist in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, Knott arrived with her coach, Rohsaan Griffin, and fitness and conditioning trainer Carlo Buzzichelli in Nagasaki, Japan from Austin, Texas last Tuesday for a five-day training camp in the city on the before heading to Tokyo.
“Knott’s goal is to make the top four of the heats in the morning to advance to the semifinals in the afternoon,” said Kho, who arrived in Nagasaki ahead of Knott’s team from Manila last Monday. “The top eight semifinalists will advance to the finals the succeeding day.”
He said Knott would trainon her own at a track oval in the city until Friday “then we will move to another facility an hour’s drive from Nagasaki because the stadium will be used as vaccination center for COVID-19.”
