After anchoring Jamaica home to gold in the men’s 4×100 metres, and thus completing a ideal 100m/200m/relay record in the last three Olympics, Usain Bolt diverted from his now customary lap of honour to kneel at his finishing point in lane three, bend down to the track and kiss the Games goodbye. Bolts proven he can move his legs faster than no other as he holds the world record in the 100m and 200m as well as the 4x100m relay record with his teammates.
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“I know he’ll settle down because he has said it”. The fastest guy to run Rio was American swimmer Ryan Locthe! I’m just proud of myself that I executed and got it done. As a teen, he ran one of his first races wearing basketball shorts and borrowed shoes. “I just hate that it happened to us in this fashion”. “I am the greatest”. I’m just going to go home and stay up late tonight, just talking and having fun.
Whole Bolt lost a couple of races when he was injured or out of shape, he never came up short when it counted most and because of this, we will always remember him fondly.
“No one will be able to tell him. that he’s not he greatest”, de Grasse said.
“It was my fourth Olympic Games and I had not had gold”.
But Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake and Nickel Ashmeade were in no mood to fluff their lines. It was the end of an era.
As Ashton Eaton, the decathlon champion said, and this goes for all who have had the privilege to bear witness to Bolt’s collection of astonishing turns on the track, said, “It has been an absolute pleasure to compete in the same era as Usain Bolt”. “It’s been a great career”. I am trying to be one of the greatest.
Led by Pau Gasol’s 23 points, the silver medalist in both Beijing and London made it tough on the Americans for the third straight Olympics but again couldn’t upset the world’s No. 1 team. Not even for a second, it seemed, did their eyes blink away from him. He declared after his 200m success on Thursday night that his legs refused to go faster and he felt exhausted.
“It was hard because the weather wasn’t that good”, Liu said of the hot conditions.
“He’s been such an inspiration to Jamaican kids, showing them they can be so much more”, said Charles Russell, a 32-year-old from Kingston. “It’s just sweat and tears”.
United States’s Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner and Tori Bowie celebrate winning the women’s 4 x 100-meter relay final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. That is all relative, though. They smoked the field, including the archrival Jamaicans, in 41.01, the second-fastest time in history.
Bolt took a couple throws of the javelin, the last one going about 50 metres.
In February, Bolt confirmed that he would be retiring after the after the 2017 World Championships, meaning that this the 29-year-old made his last appearance at the Olympics.
“Relief. I’ve had all this pressure over the years”.
Bolt’s joy was in stark contrast to the United States, who had just about completed their lap of honour after coming home third when they looked up at the scoreboard and discovered they had been disqualified. “They said Justin got the stick before the zone”.
Immediacy bias must just be part of human nature, hard-wired into us in a way that compels reflexive thinking.
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His ninth gold medal drew him level with Paavo Nurmi, the Finn who dominated distance running in the early 20th century, and American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis as the most successful Olympic track and field athletes of all time.
