He won the 200-meter race with a time of 19.78 seconds to defeat Andre de Grasse of Canada.
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Bolt took another throw which measured a distance of 56m according to French journalist Franck Ballanger who witnessed the entire episode and even posted a video of his final throw on Twitter.
Blake won silver in the 100 and 200m behind training partner Bolt at the London 2012 Olympics but injury subsequently ravaged his career, causing him to go off the boil.
Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet.
“I want to stay around the sport”. He always encourages us to do better.
Winning a medal is a great achievement.
One team that has won loads of gold is the USA women’s basketball team.
Rio de Janeiro: The fastest man on earth, made his final Olympic bow here in Rio on Friday with the pleasure of remembering all that has come before tinged with regret that there will be no more.Three Olympics, three gold medals in each.
“The sport’s being doing better, they’re going to clean it up and it’s going to do great”.
“I just have mixed feelings now”, Bolt said.
Track and field has experienced a number of scandals, as the sport has found itself embroiled in numerous doping controversies.
Let’s not forget, Bolt was coming back after a hamstring injury and surgery.
Duarte reiterated she did not know it was Bolt at the time. “We only can go up now, the bad times are behind us”. Take that world! Heh.
However, Coe argued that just as a new generation of boxers emerged after Ali’s retirement, so track and field would unearth new personalities after Bolt. The stadium was literally willing him to win. The Rio haul is the most at a non-boycotted Olympics since 1932, and its 13 golds marked the most for the United States since the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Bolt is a showman and a good one.
Comparing athletes across different sports is typically an exercise in futility, but in this case, it’s fair to raise the question. The feat may have garnered more attention if he weren’t sharing the stage with Bolt. The Jamaican has saved his sport from a drug-tainted reputation and singlehandedly drummed up interest in the Games.
She replied: “I wish there was no discovery, but than you so much”.
Bolt is simply cool, but the way we think of him is heavily affected by his discipline.
For 10 straight days, they ran, jumped and threw their hardest. The fans’ pulse races, their blood pressure shoots up and if the human eye blinks more than normal, we have to see race replays! This is where Bolt’s supporters would vouch for quality over quantity. Now that Bolt is on his way out of the game, perhaps he feels the time is now to let the world knows he’s in love.
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In the final, the 30-year-old pit his wits against American rival Justin Gaitlin and despite being slow out of the blocks, victory never looked in doubt as Bolt secured his seventh Olympic gold, becoming the first athlete to win 100m gold on three occasions.
