When Usain Bolt means business, he is still all alone out there.
Bolt coasted to his third straight 200-meter world title Saturday, with
the race basically wrapped as soon as he entered the finishing straight.
Jamaican teammate Warren Weir never got close to Bolt’s world-
leading mark of 19.66 seconds, but crossing .13 seconds later for
silver still left him enough time to join him in a reggae dance to Bob
Marley’s ”Three Little Birds.”
”The energy was great tonight,” Bolt said. ”The crowd was into it.”
Curtis Mitchell of the United States took bronze in 20.24 but was never
in the hunt for gold.
Now Bolt will go for his fourth triple gold at a major championship when
he joins the Jamaican team for the 4×100 relay Sunday.
”It should be even better,” Bolt said.
The wealth of Jamaican sprinting is such that they might well sweep
their American rivals in unprecedented fashion, after Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce clinched a similar 100-200 double and also has her final
relay late on the closing day of the championships.
The opposition could hardly touch Bolt on Saturday, and once it was
clear his right foot was OK after he dropped a starting block on it early
in the week, everything was as good as gold.
Even his start was strong as he quickly gained a decisive edge. And
then in the finishing straight, Bolt fully let loose his giant stride, the one
that has dumbfounded rivals since he won three gold medals at the
2008 Beijing Olympics.
His seventh world title leaves him one shy of American greats Carl
Lewis and Michael Johnson, who lead the overall gold medal standings
in the 30-year history of the event. On Sunday, Bolt can pull alongside
them, even though he is only 26.
His maturity showed Saturday, though, as the wild hot-dogging of the
Beijing Games gave way to a sense of near-seriousness.
His Lightning Bolt stance came late, and besides the dance steps, his
celebration was subdued.
”I got to face the fact that I am getting older so I have to try not getting
injured during the season,” Bolt said.
The only thing that never changes is the gold.
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