Bolt’s hamstring problem had forced him to withdraw from the 100m at the Jamaican Olympic trials earlier this month.
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Kenya’s Silas Kiplagat was the man who signed the famous winners’ book after winning the Emsley Carr Mile in 3.53.04, while Briton Jake Wightman smashed his personal best with a 3.54.20 run in fourth.
Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse took full advantage of the fast early pace, moving clear of the field just before the 600m mark and even had time to throw a fist in the air as he crossed the line in an impressive 1.43.88 season’s best to win the men’s 800m. “I came out and for the first one in a while the execution wasn’t ideal but it’s my first one so I can’t complain”, he said. But I am feeling good. I was just really upset and I wanted to come out here and do what I know I could have done.
“I’ll definitely be there, I’m excited to go”, Bolt said of his Rio aspirations.
Thanks for the continued support my peeps.Happy to finish the race injury free.
“I love the crowd, I love the people and I enjoy what I do”.
“Of course, as a fellow Jamaican, it’s always great to see Jamaicans win”, he said. Good luck to the girls running in Rio.
Harrison set a new world record Friday by running the 100-meter hurdles in 12.20 seconds.
The six-time Olympic champion clocked 19.89 seconds – 0.15 ahead of Panama’s Alonso Edward in second. Someone is going to be Olympic champion (next month) and someone is going to be Olympic champion in 2020.
The 23-year-old Harrison ran 12.20 seconds on the site of the 2012 Olympics to surpass Yordanka Donkova’s previous mark of 12.21 set in August 1988. “I was really heartbroken”.
That might not be his very best performance but it was good enough to leave everybody else behind at the London Diamond League and it only means he will get more devastating by the time the athletics event starts in Brazil.
It came in Harrison’s first race since finishing sixth in the cut-throat US Olympic trials where only the top three advance to the Games.
Harrison will still be cheering on her teammates in Rio. He spoke of how he felt he was the victim of disrespectful comments from the American camp after he pulled out of the Jamaica trials.
All I’ve got to do is continue working and continue pushing myself.
“I’ve had some hard races recently but hopefully I can iron out those mistakes for Rio”, she told BBC Sport.
Harrison won by a distance, accelerating away from the British duo of Jessica Ennis-Hill and Tiffany Porter aswell as all three of her teammates who will be competing at the Olympic Games.
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The Jamaican legend ran a confidence-boosting time of 19.89sec in his first competitive 200m of the season.
