Daily disqualification: Usain Bolt and Dayron Robles have both been hit by the curse of the IAAF programme
When the victorious Dayron Robles faced a protest about his World Championships win in the 110m hurdles, he had no further to look than that day’s IAAF souvenir programme cover for a sign of the outcome.
There he was in full colour effortlessly clearing the hurdles. But it was the curse of the magazine cover than did him in. Day one IAAF poster boy Australian Olympic pole vault champion Stephen Hooker failed to make the final and day two’s, Usain Bolt, didn’t get beyond the start line of the 100m final when he false started. It has become a running joke in Daegu that to be honoured on the cover is bad luck. So of course it was no surprise to the superstitious that Robles, from Cuba, lost his hurdles title, disqualified in the protest room because he had hit the arm of his neighbouring hurdler, China’s Liu Xiang. So who will be on the magazine title page next? Or will more than a few athletes be running for cover?
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