Around the 70m mark, he raced ahead and mocked Justin Gatlin of the USA, edging ahead in his last four strides to finish in 9.81 seconds – though he didn’t find enough mini-seconds to look back at his rivals this time.
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“It did affect me a little bit, my legs felt dead at the start”.
Speaking to Cadena COPE, the Jamaican sprinter said that Cristiano Ronaldo being his favourite footballer, Bolt supports Real Madrid.
Usain Bolt’s 9.81 seconds was his slowest winning time in a major championship in eight years and he was not pleased with the organisers, after they reduced the time between the semi-finals and the final.
“I will run as hard as I possibly can”, Bolt signed off.
And as if there was any doubt, Bold said: “I wanted to set myself apart from everybody else and this is the Olympics and this is the place to do it”.
The world’s fastest man already holds both the world record at 19.19 seconds and the Olympic record at 19.30 in the 200m.
He tried to be fearless in stating his importance: “When it comes down to it, I have given him his closest races all his career”, Gatlin, 34, said. I didn’t want to go out. “Two more medals to go and I can sign off. Immortal”. Gatlin of the U.S. also went through to the final with a time of 9.94 seconds in the third semi-final while fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake also went through with 10.1.
“I’m going to go out there and leave it all on the track”. I am the oldest guy in the field. Andre de Grasse of Canada took bronze with a time of 9.91 seconds. Akani Simbine of South Africa (9.94) and Ben Yousef Meite of Ivory Coast, who ran a national record 9.96, followed.
He had just won his second consecutive gold medal in the 100-meter dash, defending the title “fastest man in the world” against numerous challengers, some of them Americans.
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Rio de Janeiro – He’s feeling good.
