The fans delighted in Bolt’s latest triumph and he went on his lap of honour with a stuffed Games mascot as reggae music echoed around the arena. Gabby Douglas, the Olympic all-around champion in 2012, is also in the final, as is defending Olympic uneven bars champion Aliya Mustafina of Russian Federation.
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Bolt’s swan song in the Olympic 100 meters Sunday night was a no-doubter – a pedestrian-by-his-standards 9.81-second sprint down the straightaway, but not so slow that he couldn’t take time to point at his own chest with his thumb a step before he crossed the finish line.
Usain Bolt raced for the first at the 2016 Olympics and won his opening round 100m heat in 10.07 seconds. Canada’s Andre de Grasse took bronze in 9.91.
She became the first Kenyan woman to win the Olympic marathon, completing the 26.2-mile course in 2:24.04 in hot and sunny weather. “Hopefully tomorrow [Sunday] I’ll come out and I’ll feel much better, much smoother”. He has twice broken the 200 metres world record, setting 19.30 in 2008 and 19.19 in 2009.
In again beating Gatlin, the last man to win an Olympic 100m gold before Bolt’s arrival, Bolt removed the veneer of the most hyperbolic rivalries of modern sport. Before the Olympics, Bolt hadn’t run a 100 since June 30, when he pulled out of Jamaica’s national championships with injuries to his left hamstring.
Bolt must now be accepted as the greatest ever Olympic sprinter, indeed the greatest sprinter ever. And now, his story will end at the 2017 world championships.
After taking silver in the final with a 9.89 second performance to Bolt’s 9.81, he strode around the track with an American flag draped over his shoulders, smiling to the occasional friendly faces he found in the crowd. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics.
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Lochte and fellow swimmers Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen had left a hospitality house hosted by France early Sunday morning in a taxi bound for the Olympic Village.
Usain Bolt has confimed his status as the world’s fastest man to claim his third 100m gold at the Olympic Games. Sprinters typically reach top speed after somewhere between 50-60 m.
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Trayvon Bromell, a 21-year-old Floridian and Baylor University runner, finished in eighth in Sunday night’s final. He had not lost a race in almost two years entering the 2015 World Championships, and many predicted he would finally defeat his rival for the first time in an Olympic or Worlds 100m final. The event is largely held outdoors as few indoor facilities have a 100 m straight. If Gatlin wins, he’ll be the oldest man to win an Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter race.
