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Ashe, who picked the last non-automatic spot into the semis started very well in the race, but he couldn’t match the finishing of the rest of the field as Jamaica’s Oblique Seville won the first semi-final with a new personal best of 9.81s while world champion Noah Lyles was second in a time of 9.83s.

He has been beaten for the second time at the Games as he hopes to win the Olympic title.

The 19-year-old Ajayi who stunned the field in his heat on Saturday produced a time of 10.16s in the second semi-final but it wasn’t enough to get him through.

South Africa’s Akani Simbine ran a fantastic race to win the heat in a time of 9.87s while Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo grabbed the second automatic spot in 9.91s for an African dominance.

Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs, whom Ajayi beat in the heats on SaturdayCame third in an equal season’s best of 9.92s but it wasn’t good enough for an automatic qualification to defend his title.

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