Athletics - Semenya cruises through to 800m final

By Mitch Phillips RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Caster Semenya qualified for the Olympic women's 800 metres final with supreme ease on Thursday and, barring a catastrophe, appears nailed on for gold in Saturday's final. The South African, looking as if she was out for a Sunday morning jog, won the third of three semis in the fastest time of the night - one minute, 58.15 seconds - with Britain's Lynsey Sharp chasing her over the line to also advance. Semenya has dominated the 800m this season and there has even been speculation that she could take down Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova's 1983 mark of 1:53.28 seconds - the longest standing athletics world record set in an era when eastern European doping was rife.
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