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Updates from the penultimate night of action in Tokyo
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Nafi Thiam – one of the defending champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s key rivals – withdrew on Saturday withdrew from the heptathlon on Saturday after an underwhelming long jump left Belgium’s triple Olympic champion with little chance of a medal.
The 31-year-old, who won world titles in 2017 and 2022, failed to get over the six-metre mark with her two legal jumps on Saturday morning to stand in eighth place in the overall standings, 377 points behind the competition-leader Anna Hall.
