Usain Bolt, photo by Telegraph.co.uk
The men’s 100M Final is on the way today, August 16th 2008 and three Jamaicans and 2 Trinidadians are on the line. Silence falls upon the 9100 people packed stadium, billiojs more at home bite their nails.
Set, and they’re ready. Bang! At the 50M mark its Usain Bolt in first place, now pulling into high gear and Marc Burns from Trinidad behind him.
At the 75M mark Usain Bolt looks left, looks right and realises he is in the lead! By the 80M mark he drops his arms, encouraging the crowd to cheer and pounds his chest for the last 20M as he coasts across the finish line.
Usain Bolt takes gold, Richard Thompson from Trinidad takes silver (9.89 seconds) and Walter Dix for America takes the bronze. Asafa Powell a favourite to take the Silver Medal didn’t get the start he wanted and finished an overall 5th. Still a great performance for what is widely considered the single biggest olympic event.
Usain Bolt, the real cinderella story here coming from just School Sports meets to shocking the world in New York earlier this year and setting a world record of 9.72 seconds. Today, August 16th 2008 Usain Bolt breaks that world record – while coasting and cheering for the last 20M – and runs an amazing 9.69 seconds.
First and second place runners, both from the Caribbean, we’ve performed well! Congratulations to you all.
Update: The broadcasters are dubbing Michael Phelps the “Star” of the olympics and Usain Bolt as the “King”
