RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dutch coach Bart Bennema sighed and assessed his star pupil.
"She has become a sprinter now," he said.
What? Dafne Schippers, a sprinter only "now" in 2016, a year after she won gold over 200 and silver over 100 meters in Beijing to become the dominating sprinter of the last world championships ahead of the Olympics?
It just shows what the U.S. and Jamaican sprinters will have to deal with — an orange streak of speed running from her heptathlon past and perhaps toward Olympic fame.
The women's 100 begins Friday on the opening day of track and field.