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Usain Bolt, Jamaica Win 4×100-Meter Relay Gold Medal
London Olympics with another gold medal and another world record.
Running the anchor leg in the men’s 4×100-meter relay, Bolt helped the Jamaican team win the gold medal in 36.84 seconds, a new world record. Just days after declaring himself “the greatest athlete to live,” the charismatic 25-year-old sprinter went back to work bolstering his argument.
Bolt received the baton from teammate Yohan Blake and then left behind Ryan Bailey of the United States to reach the finish line ahead of the field. The United States won the silver in 37.04 seconds, a new national record. Canada finished the race third but was disqualified, giving the bronze to Trinidad and Tobago.
Usain Bolt Wins Gold In 200 Meters Final
Bolt’s countryman and training partner, Yohan Blake, gave it his best shot. But, in the end, Bolt remains the guest of honor on the track at the London Olympics just as was in 2008 at the Beijing Games.
Running the 200 meters in a blistering 19.32 seconds, the 25-year-old Jamaican track star won his second consecutive gold medal in the event. Blake won the silver, crossing in 19.44 seconds, with the bronze going to Warren Weir, also of Jamaica, in a time of 19.84 seconds.
“It’s what I came here to do,” Bolt said after winning the 200 meters, via The New York Times. “I’m now a legend. I’m also the greatest athlete to live.”
Bolt is the first man to win two Olympic titles in the 200. He’s also the first man to twice sweep the 100 and the 200. And he’s been telling us all week that he was going to pull it off.
London 2012 last Sunday, the Jamaican insisted he also had to retain his 200m title to achieve such status.
And the 25-year-old did precisely that with another imperious performance, leading a Jamaican clean-sweep ahead of 100m silver medallist Yohan Blake and Warren Weir, both of whom are just 22.
Bolt’s winning time of 19.32 was outside his own world record of 19.19 which he felt might be a possibility, but the 80,000 crowd had already witnessed one such feat as Kenya’s David Rudisha stormed to 800m gold in 1:40.91, taking 0.10 off his own record.
Bolt had lost to Blake over 100 and 200m at the Jamaican trials – and later underwent treatment on a stiff back which was causing hamstring problems – but gained sweet revenge over both distances in London.
Asked about lowering the world record he set when winning the world title in Berlin in 2009, Bolt said: ‘I think it was possible…but I guess I wasn’t fit enough. I was fast but I wasn’t fit enough.
‘I came off the corner, I could feel the strain on my back a little bit so I was trying to keep my form, but I stopped running because I knew it wasn’t going to be a world record. When I came off the corner I could feel it.
‘It was hard. I really dedicated [myself] to my work, I know what London meant to me. I came here and I gave it my all and I’m proud of myself. I didn’t get a world record – I really wanted to do it in the 200m – but I’m happy.’
