Bolt closes out season with another top class 100m sprint
September 7, 2008
Three time Beijing Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has ended his Golden League season with a 9.77 second time in the 100m at the meet in Brussels. Had it not been for a 0.9 metres-per-second headwind he may have challenged his world record set in the final of the 100m in Beijing.
Bolt had to be content with the track record which previously stood at 9.84 seconds. Second placegetter Asafa Powell also came in ahead of the old track record as he clocked 9.83 second. It was a Jamaican 1-2-3-4 as Nesta Carter took third in 10.07 and Michael Frater fourth in 10.08. Tyson Gay who is the current world 100m and 200m champion pulled out of the race as he was not willing to risk his hamstring in the cool weather.
For Powell it was another fast run in a meet that did not matter. He failed miserably in the race that mattered in Beijing coming in fifth in 9.95. In smaller meets he shows he is a runner that should be challenging for gold at Olympics and world championships. Last Tuesday he ran 9.72 in Lausanne, just outside of the 9.69 word record. Hopefully at the next world championships he will step up and push Bolt all the way to the finnish line. That is an awesome thought.
