Bolt has been competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he secured his ninth gold medal from his third Olympic Games.
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It leaves Bolt – who will retire in 2017 – level with Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi on a total of nine Olympic gold medals, a record for a track and field athlete.
The 30-year-old Felix entered the games as one of six women with four Olympic gold medals in track and field.
Bolt, who has won the 100, 200 and 4×100 relay gold medals at Beijing, London and now Rio, crossed in 37.27 seconds.
It was Felix’s fifth Olympic gold medal and the third for Bartoletta, who also won the long jump here.
After the race, Bolt and his teammates – Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake and Nickel Ashmeade – wrapped themselves in Jamaican flags and danced.
The runners who have lost to Usain Bolt for the past dozen years showered the Jamaican superstar with praise on Friday, after he completed his historic “triple-triple” in what he has said will be his final Olympics.
Japan were second in 37.60 seconds to take a surprise silver while Canada took the bronze after the third placed United States (37.62) were disqualified for a lane violation.
It is USA versus the Netherlands in the women’s volleyball bronze medal match, USA versus Spain for women’s basketball gold and tonight’s men’s 5,000 final features Great Britain’s Mo Farah and Team USA’s Bernard Lagat.
The US team were forced into a solo re-run of their qualifier on Thursday, having overturned a disqualification for a dropped baton exchange between Felix and Gardner.
“It’s mixed feelings. It’s a relief, because it’s really stressful, I’ve had injury problems, but I’m also sad that I have to leave, this is my last one”.
“I am just relieved”.
Gay, part of the United States 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. “I’m just trying to put my best foot forward for all those soldiers who are watching”.
Felix had been bumped in the preliminary heats and lost the baton, but the USA team protested and got a second chance – a solo re-run that allowed them to qualify based on time. My muscles, I’ve never had them shake and just give out like they have been …
Rio de Janeiro – Twin titans Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps have mined a trove of Olympic gold, changed the sporting landscape and left a huge hole that starts in Rio and goes around the world.
With most of the other debates over about greatest this, greatest that, a new one might be whether Bolt has surpassed Marley as the most famous person from the country known for sea, sun and sprints.
Jady Duarte, 20, appeared seemingly next to Jamaica’s “triple triple” legend in a series of WhatsApp pictures showing them cuddling in a bed.
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“It was hard because the weather wasn’t that good”, Liu said of the hot conditions.
