The men’s decathlon medals will be awarded Thursday night after the 1500-meter finals.
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Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt made mincemeat of his men’s 200m competition to secure his eighth Olympic Games gold medal. He finished third in his semi-finals heat. For perspective, only one other runner on the track on Thursday night, American LaShawn Merritt, had ever run a sub-19.80 200.
But the 21-year-old, who attends the University of Southern California, admitted that despite the smiles there was a cunning strategy at work. He didn’t come close.
Usain Bolt, you are a freak. Spain meets Serbia in the first semifinal at 1 p.m. “No contest, as usual”. “But I was happy that I won a gold medal”.
It’s not the first time Bolt has cruised home. “But I could tell in the 100m he was feeling the pain and he was slowing down”. So I guess it’s just age and all the rounds that’s taken toll. If only his opponents were faster! I wanted to run faster. The time came up, and when Bolt saw it, he tilted his head back and yelled, stuck his hands wide open as if to say “Why?” then tore off the No. 6 sticker that was on his right hip.
“I didn’t think I had, but maybe I did”.
Didn’t Andre de Grasse know that nobody is supposed to mess with the Jamaican’s 200m? In a way, he did.
Canada’s Andre De Grasse, bronze medalist in the 100, was second in 20.02 and France’s Christophe Lemaitre got third in a 20.12.
De Grasse did some training at Sharpe’s the Speed Academy Athletics Club in Pickering, learning the basics of the sport, then went to the University of Southern California where he blossomed into a world-beating sprinter.
More than 15 minutes after he was finished, the stadium still chanted Bolt’s name.
However, both runners spent the last 20 metres with a discussion that involved laughs and finger waving from Bolt himself, as these two athletes have now captured the spotlight of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. If only it wasn’t so.
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Bolt still has one more race to go in Rio. Bolt added that he felt his own world record of 19.19sec, set when winning the 2009 world title in Berlin, could be under threat.
