Men’s 200m silver and bronze medal spots revised after disqualifications
August 21, 2008
US pair Shawn Crawford and Walter Dix were promoted to the silver and bronze medal positions in the 200m following the disqualification of the second and third-placed athletes for running in the wrong lane.
The Netherlands Antilles athlete Churandy Martina and Wallace Spearmon of the USA were both disqualified after having provisionally placed second and third.
In case you missed the earlier result, Usain Bolt blitzed the field as he completed the 100m / 200m sprint double in world record time. He set the new 200m mark at 19.30 slicing 0.02 seconds off Michael Johnson’s 1996 world record set at the Atlanta Olympics.
Michael Johnson has been reported as saying that he thinks Bolt could also beat his 400m world record. That would be interesting to see.
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