World Athletics Championship carnage as 200m stars involved in crash near arena

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    Two groups of 200m sprinters were involved in a shocking buggy crash ahead of competing at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest.

    The 2023 Championships are being held at the National Athletics Centre, with the event taking place over the space of a week and are set to conclude on Sunday.

    Ahead of the men's 200m semi-finals, two buggys carrying athletes into the stadium accidentally collided with each other, narrowly missing a pair of pedestrians too in the process.

    While it looked as though no one was significantly injured in the crash, one man was flung from the front seat of one of buggys.

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    And sprinters Andrew Hudson of Jamaica and America's Noah Lyles were two of the athletes caught in the chaos, with camera footage catching the former holding his eye.

    BBC Sport's Gabby Logan confirmed on air that the semi-finals should go ahead as planned this evening. She said: "We're just going to focus for a moment on something that has happened concerning the men who are coming up in the 200m semi-finals.

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    "And they get brought here, on a buggy, and you can see here there was an accident. Two buggys collided, two pedestrians almost in the mix of there, one guy you can see there stumbling away.

    "And Noah Lyles is in the front of that buggy there and Luxolo Adams [which turned out to be Andrew Hudson], the South African was holding his eye.

    "There was a lot of confusion because we've only just seen those shots so we haven't had confirmation that everyone is ok but we've heard that everything is going to go off on-time which would indicate they're all ok."

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    Thankfully, it appeared as though all of the athletes escaped the potentially serious crash unscathed and without any major injuries.

    And clearly, it didn't impact too badly upon Lyles, who came through to his heat with ease, booking his place in the final by winning with a time of 19.76. Hudson and Adams however missed out on qualification.

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