At Hayward Field, the temple of the tartan in Oregon, a 20-year-old college student named Ja'Kobe Tharp drove the chronometers and history crazy: 12.75 seconds in the semi-finals of the 110-metre University Championship fences. Five hundredths less than the 12.80 that Aries Merritt had left intact since 2012. It was the world's first record in college students since the jump of Dwight Stones, back in 1976. And all with a wind in favor of just 1.…
At Hayward Field, the temple of the tartan in Oregon, a 20-year-old college student named Ja'Kobe Tharp drove the chronometers and history crazy: 12.75 seconds in the semi-finals of the 110-metre University Championship fences. Five hundredths less than the 12.80 that Aries Merritt had left intact since 2012. It was the world's first record in college students since the jump of Dwight Stones, back in 1976. And all with a wind in favor of just 1.…