Viewership peaked from 9:15-9:30 p.m.ET at 21.4/34 with coverage of the sprinter’s breathtaking and record-setting win with a time of 9.81 seconds. What absolutely can’t be questioned, by the way, is the degree to which he knows this.
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After becoming the first to ever win the men’s 100-meters in three consecutive Olympics, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt looks to deepen his mark on the sport and the 2016 Rio Games in the 200-meters and the 4×100-meters relay later this week. Now, I am in the same race as him. The great sprinter still has an ultimate goal to take his world record of 19.19 seconds at 200 meters below the 19-second barrier.
“I wanted to set myself apart from everybody else and this is the Olympics, I have to do it”.
The Jamaican stormed to his third successive 100m title and seventh gold medal overall as he bids for an unprecedented “triple triple”.
If he advances from those semis, he would race in the final on Thursday night for his eighth Olympic gold medal.
Ethiopian world record holder Genzebe Dibaba qualified for the women’s 1,500 metres final with the fastest time, comfortably winning her heat in four minutes 3.06 seconds to justify her tag as favourite for Olympic gold.
Gatlin, of course, heard the boos but said he couldn’t let them affect his race.
The American was second at 9.89, as Bolt got ahead at the halfway stage and kept going, signalling victory at the finish in his own inimitable style.
One Twitter user imagined Bolt saying, “Had you shook with that slow start, didn’t I?”
Pensacola’s Bubba Watson missed out on the medals the Men’s Golf competition, which returned to the Olympic Games in Rio after an absence of more than 100 years.
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“I think if I can get a good night’s rest after the semifinals, it’s possible”, he said, according to the Guardian. So I’m going to run with that one. “That’s something I really want”. I feel very proud and very happy. “So this is not such a insane hurdle to get over”, said Campbell-Brown, who will be a part of Jamaica’s 4×100 relay team.
