Phelps helped lift the 4×100 medley relay team to victory on Saturday (Sunday, Manila time) in what marked his last race before retiring, capping a night of extraordinary accomplishments in the 2016 Olympics.
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Reassuringly for the 31-year-old athlete, Sunday’s outcome in Rio de Janeiro was the same as in April in London: The intruder was stopped and Sumgong got the victory. The same can not be said for the man expected to be Bolt’s chief threat for gold on Sunday night at the Olympic Stadium, providing both men make it through their semifinals earlier in the evening. He will race in one more worldwide competition, he has said, at next year’s World Championships in London. “Hopefully tomorrow [Sunday] I’ll come out and I’ll feel much better, much smoother”.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the Men’s 100m Final for the third time in a row.
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It was however, one of the tightest races that Bolt has run during his legendary career. Lord Coe, himself a double Olympic gold medallist, is an advocate of lifetime bans for serious doping offences. Immortal. It’s a good start. Bolt caught Gatlin with about 20 meters to go and hung on for the gold.
“We work 365 days a year to be here for nine seconds”, the 2004 gold medallist added.
It was not Bolt at his best.
At the World Championships a year ago, Bolt’s meeting with Justin Gatlin was billed as good versus evil for the very soul of athletics, coming as it did in the wake of a host of doping scandals. Gatlin should have gotten him at the 2013 world championships but leaned early en route to a 0.01-second loss.
Usain Bolt felt “kind of slow” despite winning his 100 metre heat in his first race at Rio 2016.
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Trayvon Bromell, a 21-year-old Floridian and Baylor University runner, finished in eighth in Sunday night’s final.
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The men’s 100 meters is one of the moments where the sporting world stops and appreciates the breathtaking, super-human speed of the world’s fastest humans.
“That’s the first time I’ve gone into a stadium and they’ve started to boo”, Bolt said. He is the reigning World and Olympic champion in these three events. Bolt answered those asking just how fast could he go, lowering world records to 9.58 for the 100 and 19.19 for the 200.
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The 100 meters final will take place Monday, at 03:25am German time. I have confidence in my policies that I’m with; USADA (U.S. Anti-Doping Agency) has done a great job, WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) has done a great job, I’ve come back and did what I need to do. Bolt has stated that he intends to retire from athletics after the 2017 World Championships.
