The latest display of the Bolt supremacy was actually the slowest time of his three Olympic successes: after a typically rocky start, Bolt gunned down Justin Gatlin in the last 30m, the veteran American once again fading just when it seemed he’d done the shooting. But Bolt went full turbo and edged him out in by 0.08 seconds with a time of 9.81 at the finish line, while Gatlin finished with 9.89.
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Usain Bolt secured a unique place in history and kept alive his hopes of an unprecedented triple-triple in an excitement-charged day of athletics at the Rio Olympics on Sunday.
On Sunday night, Bolt won his third straight Olympic gold medal in the 100-metre sprint, crossing the line in 9.81 seconds, 8-100ths of a second ahead of American Justin Gatlin.
His mother seems to think that the young Bolt was born to run.
No matter what happens in those events, though, Bolt has made one thing very clear: He’s the best sprinter ever. “When it comes to it, I guess I’ve given him his closest races in all his career, so to be able to say that at the age I’m at right now, it’s a true honour, guys”.
But this was not Bolt at his fastest.
A school cricket coach urged him to try track and field and his talent gradually grew, though as in his races his progression was not always fast out of the blocks.
Bolt headed to the Beijing World Championships in August 2015 with signs that his crown might be slipping.
Bolt had earlier clocked his fastest time of 2016 in his semi-final heat, glancing from side to side before he sauntered across the finishing with a time of 9.86 seconds. The Jamaican athlete became the first to win three Olympic 100m titles. The world was forced to take notice of his chest beating.
So, almost two hours after running 9.81 seconds, Bolt was still exiting his way through the Olympic Stadium, both relishing and revelling in every moment, as well he might. “This is the Olympics that I have to do it at”. And I have the respect of my own competitors in the 100m. The protester then jumped over fencing on the left side of the road, and Sumgong and the other runners continued unhindered.”I was scared”, Sumgong said, adding that she was thinking: “If not me, he could grab one of my colleagues”. “When he comes away from the track, he’s a great guy, he’s a cool guy”.
In Beijing it was the doping controversy surrounding women’s sprint star Marion Jones and her boyfriend Tim Montgomery.
Gatlin was booed when he entered the stadium, no doubt because of the four-year doping suspension he served before returning to competition in 2010.
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Other rivals have also been tainted and fallen by the wayside.
