Usain Bolt has completed his historic “triple triple” after helping Jamaica to win the 4×100 metres relay at Rio.
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Bolt’s “triple-triple” comes by way of winning the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles at three consecutive Olympic Games.
American Tyson Gay, who made his Olympic debut in 2008 as Bolt began his astonishing medal sweep, described the Jamaican’s greatness as “just self-explanatory”.
Japanese relay team surprisingly came second with a time of 37.60 seconds while US came third in 37.62 seconds.
The disqualification put Team GB in fifth place.
“There you go. I’m the greatest”, said the Jamaican, who kissed the finish line as he played to the crowd and the cameras.
“I’m just relieved. I’ve done it and it’s unreal”.
“You will never see another man like this for the next couple of decades”, said another. Bolt’s last gold was won with the Jamaican relay team, who came first in the 4X100-meters race before Japan and Canada.
This last gold medal means that Bolt has won nine golds in 114 seconds.
“I told the guys [relay team], “don’t give me too much work to do, make it easy”, Bolt said.
In the eight years since Beijing, the 11-time world champion has become one of the best known sportsmen on the planet and with the “triple-triple” has a legitimate claim to the title of greatest Olympic track and field athlete ever.
“No one will be able to tell him. that he’s not he greatest”, de Grasse said.
Off the track, six-gold medal swimmer Lochte apologized for inventing a story about an armed mugging to cover up an act of vandalism at a Rio gas station.
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“The commission members can ask to hear the swimmers and we will see if there is material for a sanction”, an International Olympic Committee official said. “I’m the first Indian woman to get a silver medal at the Olympics so that’s a great thing for me”, she beamed. He won this medal two days before his 30th birthday. In an all-European final at the Maracana Stadium, the Germans defeated Sweden 2-1.
