Helped by his teammates in the men’s 4x100m final, Usain Bolt added to his Rio 2016 100m and 200m gold medals, anchoring the Jamaicans to a commanding win inside the Olympic Stadium. The Kenyan team is next with 10 overall, including five golds, and Jamaica has six gold among its nine medals.
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Rio de Janeiro: The fastest man on earth, made his final Olympic bow here in Rio on Friday with the pleasure of remembering all that has come before tinged with regret that there will be no more.Three Olympics, three gold medals in each.
After the race, Bolt and his teammates – Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake and Nickel Ashmeade – wrapped themselves in Jamaican flags and danced.
The situation went from bad to worse, though, when they were disqualified along with Trinidad and Tobago. A world record over 100m, a world record over 200m, a world record in the sprint relay.
“It was hard because the weather wasn’t that good”, Liu said of the hot conditions.
“It’s very humbling, and I’m thankful to share it with these special ladies”, Felix said.
Italy’s Antonella Palmisano was fourth and China’s Qieyang Shijie fifth.
There is a heated rivalry between the two teams, even with Jamaica having dominated the event at the past three Olympics and Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell had no hesitation at taunting the US over its missed step. She rebounded from those setbacks by posting a world record of 1:24:38 in Spain past year. “All of them mean the world to me – it’s nine”. It was the most-telling sentence I’ve ever heard him speak. Bolt got the baton from Nickel Ashmeade almost even with Japan and the U.S., but within strides, he was already clear of both teams.
Bolt began the final leg of the relay race trailing Japan’s Aska Cambridge but quickly caught his rival before surging clear in the last 50m with his trademark burst.
Bolt, who has won the 100, 200 and 4×100 relay gold medals at Beijing, London and now Rio, crossed in 37.27 seconds.
He won that 100m in a triumph of good over Justin Gatlin, the USA runner who had twice served doping bans.
“Noting that early in Bolt’s career experts dismissed the idea that a 1.96m (6’5″) tall athlete could be an effective sprinter, Bromell pointed out the irony that people now suggest he and Canada’s Andre de Grasse, 1.76m (5’9”), are too short to succeed.
Even the full moon was peeking into Olympic Stadium on Friday night.
On women’s part, the United States clinched its 11th Olympic women’s 4x100m relay title, setting the second fastest time in history.
The United States women’s sprint team brilliantly beat Jamaica to complete a remarkable comeback from disqualification. Britain was third in 41.77.
Gay, part of the USA 4×100 team that was disqualified in Friday’s final, held out hope that with Bolt’s pending retirement, he would have a chance at gold in Tokyo in 2020.
Usain Bolt took the baton without a lead and had his 100 meters to run to the finish line, his final 100 meters as an Olympian and.
Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot clocked 14 minutes and 26.17 seconds to set a new Olympic record, clinching gold in the women’s 5000m. Poland’s Wojciech Nowicki claimed bronze with a best effort of 77.73m.
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The gold is Felix’s fifth, the most of any US female track star in history.
