For a man! A month after he started the season took Usain Bolt World Championship gold at 100 meters.
BEIJING / OSLO (Aftenposten ): With time 9.79 Bolt secured his third World Championship gold at 100 meters.
A big victory for Bolt, but an even greater victory for athletes.
How can 100-meter finals summarized – billed as the battle between the good and the evil. And like the fairy tale won the good. It never dopingtatte Usain Bolt beat it twice dopingtatte Justin Gatlin.
Bolt: – Does a lot
– This means more than anything else for me. I was not at my best and fumbled a bit. But I have had a troubled season and was a bit rusty, says Bolt.
– Gatlin is not accustomed to someone is next to him at the end. When I was up there with him before the finish and looked at him, I knew that I had it, said the world champion.
Justin Gatlin resembled “a $ one million man” after attempts and semifinal, but could not handle the pressure when Bolt came up alongside him in the run.
The American nearly stumble – just like Bolt in the semifinals – and stabbing on the last few meters cost him the victory.
– Bolt weed out all the mistakes of the previous races and delivers season best when it matters most. He is unique, says NRK commentator Jann Post on 29-year-old.
Gatlin was too impatient
Justin Gatlin leading the race until there remained a few meters, but at the very end sneaked Usain Bolt in front.
– Gatlin had it the way to the last few meters, but he becomes impatient. Gatlin will a little too much, and he bows slightly under the pressure here, says NRK’s expert commentator Vebjørn Rodal.
– Usain Bolt stood here facing his biggest challenge in his career. On top of it all, he had the burden of “going to save the sport” on their shoulders. That means there was considerable pressure on him. And therefore I must give him a lot of praise for its implementation, said Michael Johnson, former 400m runner, and now expert for BBC.
– He was challenged here more than ever before in his career. In addition to the burden of having to “save the sport”, there was a bit of pressure he had. I must give him very much credit for the show, said Johnson.
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The bronze went to Tryvon Brommel and the Canadian comet André De Grasse, who shocked with 9.75 earlier this year – in a tailwind barely above permitted. Both he and the other shooting star, Tryvon Brommel, ran at 9.92.
The victory took Bolt his ninth World Championship gold – and no more. But never has he struggled so much for the noblest metal. When he took his first World Championship gold in Berlin in 2009 he set a world record with 9.58 and was 13 hundredths ahead of Tyson Gay. In 2011 he was disqualified due to false start, while in Moscow in 2013 won at 9.77 – 8/100 front Justin Gatlin.
In the semifinals, world record holder had trouble, and there was concern from the audience as he was about to stumble at the very beginning. But Bolt remained on their feet, and with time he became 9.96 ready for the final.
Justin Gatlin was beforehand regarded as the big favorite. In the semifinals he ran an impressive 9.77 to 0.4 m / s tailwind.
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Relieved IAAF president
The newly elected IAAF president Sebastian Coe said in forrrige week that it was quite sickening to think that the double dopingtatte Gatlin could take World Championship gold.
Others have gone so far as to say that it was athletics future and credibility was at stake. Gatlin has tried to defend himself that he was serving his sentence, but are constantly reminded of the past.
Now belongs to the future athletes.
And Usain Bolt slightly to?
In any case, the Olympics in Rio next year.
Thus ended the final 100 meters for men:
1. Usain Bolt 9.79
2. Justin Gatlin 9.80
3. Trayvon Bromell 9.92
3. Andre De Grasse 9.92
5. Mike Rodgers 9.94
6. Tyson Gay 10.00
7. Asafa Powell 10.00
8. Jimmy Vicaut 10.00
9. Bing Tian Su 10, 06
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