Is
this man bigger than the Sports itself ! ~ and that sports lasts barely less
than 10 seconds !! Just like any other mother in India, this champion’s mother
too has an eye on the future. "I would hope he'll settle down, get married
and start his family," Jennifer told CNN's Don Riddell as she talked about the
hopes she has for her son once he stops competing.
Nothing
ordinary one may think, but, she is mother of Usain Bolt, the legend. Bolt
might have estimated annual earnings of $30 million -- he ranks 32nd of Forbes'
list of the world's highest-paid athletes -- but as he has accrued all those
gold medals and the ensuing financial success, a smile has never disappeared
from the sprinter's face.
The countdown to ‘the fastest legs’ in
history has already begun. The heats are
over and the most watched man ran a rather slow race in heat 7 completing in
10.07 secs .. and
I never thought that the finals would have a competitor from Cote d’Ivoire,
China and 2 from Bahrain. !!
Olympics
at Beijing in 2008 was all about Usain Bolt.
In the Olympic 100 m final, Bolt broke new ground, winning in 9.69
seconds. He has since cut a few more
seconds out of that. 9.58 is the World Record. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won the 100
metres gold medal with a time of 9.63 seconds, improving upon his own Olympic
record and defending his gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He took
200 metres title with a time of 19.32
seconds, and on the final day of the
2012 Olympic athletics, Bolt participated in Jamaica's gold medal-winning 4×100
metres relay team consisting of Bolt, Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Blake.
With a time of 36.84 seconds, they knocked two tenths of a second from their
previous world record from 2011.
Always
the crown jewel in the Olympic athletics programme, the Rio 100 metres final is
shaping up to be extraordinary for many reasons. When Usain Bolt and company
enter the Olympic stadium on Sunday, this will be it. The last Olympic 100
metres final for the greatest sprinter the sport has known. With victory,
Jamaican Bolt would become the first man to win three consecutive 100 metres
titles at the Games. American rival Justin Gatlin, at the age of 34, would make
a mark of his own with a podium finish. No man that old has ever medalled in an
Olympic 100 metres final.
Of the
8 Bolt is at 4. Justin Gatlin (USA
10.01S); Ben Youssef Meite (Cote d’Ivoire 10.03; Andre De Grasse (Canada
10.04); Usain Bolt (Jamaica, 10.07); Xie
Zhenye (China 10.08); Yohan Blake (Jamaica 10.11); Andrew Fisher (Bahrain 10.12); Kemarley Brown
(Bahrain, 10.13)
There are to be 3 Semi-finals and 8 of them would go to the finals, which are to be held on 15th Aug 2016, IST.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
13th Aug
2016.