St. Paul’s Emmanuel Matadi’s 100-meter Olympic run ends in semis

St. Paul’s Emmanuel Matadi’s 100-meter Olympic run ends in semis

Emmanuel Matadi raced through the first round of the men’s 100 meters for the first time in three Olympic tries thanks to his time on Saturday. There was no such luck on Sunday. The 2009 St. Paul Johnson grad completed his semifinal run with a time of 10.18 seconds — a tenth of a second slower than his first-round time — Saturday to finish eighth out of nine runners in his heat. He finished more than two-tenths out of qualifying position for the…