SPOILER OF SPOILERS

[malaise]

GOLD, SILVERand BRONZE in the men's 200m to Jamaica -Usain Bolt does the double double!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahahah

[Spazito]

1. Spoiler post below...

Congrats to all Jamaicans!

Usain Bolt captures 200m gold medal in Jamaican sweep

Jamaican Usain Bolt won the men’s Olympic 200-metre event on Thursday in London, clocking in a time of 19.32 seconds.

Bolt becomes the first track star to ever win the 200m at consecutive Olympics. The 25-year-old is also the first man to ever sweep the 100- and 200m events at back-to-back Games.

The event featured a Jamaican sweep.

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Bolt has never tasted defeat at the Olympics, going a perfect 5-for-5 in all of his events.

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/trackandfield/story/2012/08/09/sp-track-and-field-london-olympics-usain-bolt-yohan-blake-200-metres.html

A wonderful result!

[malaise]

4. Thanks - it's madness in Jamaica - now check out this asshole Rogge

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/sns-rt-us-oly-athl-bolt-legend-day13bre8781bn-20120809,0,7764935.story
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Jamaica's Usain Bolt, who has won an unprecedented 100 and 200 meters double at two consecutive Olympics, is not yet a legend, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said on Thursday.

Bolt, who won the sprint double and the 4x100m relay in world record time at the Beijing Olympics, captured the 200m crown on Thursday after having also won the 100m title in London earlier in the Games.

"The career of Usain Bolt has to be judged when it stops," said Rogge, speaking to a small group of reporters, hours before Bolt's race. &quot American) Carl Lewis competed in four consecutive games and won medals."

Lewis won the long jump event at four straight Olympics while also winning five other gold medals in the sprints and the 4x100 relays.

Rogge said "even if he wins the 200 meters" at two straight Olympics he did not consider Bolt a legend.

"Let Bolt be injury-free and keep his motivation and participate in three to four Games and then he can be a legend. He is already an icon," said the former Olympic sailor.

[Spazito]

14. Rogge is an arrogant SOB, imo...

He is a poor representative for the Olympics, they need someone new with actual people skills!

[seabeyond]

2. kicked ass, didnt they.... nt

[malaise]

6. Sweet as...!!

[seabeyond]

21. grinnin. i love excellence. nt

[n2doc]

3. Bolt's a freakin' BEAST

Force of Nature.

[malaise]

5. He won the race with ease

he's a freak of nature

[n2doc]

8. I know!

You might enjoy this recounting of the 100 m race by Bill Simmons/ESPN:

...Maybe 10 minutes before the 100-meter final started, Chris Paul, Andre Iguodala and Russell Westbrook showed up without seats, then squeezed into the Durant/Love section because everyone else was standing at that point. My favorite part: one usher telling another usher, "It's fine if they're standing — they said that, if everyone sits down, they'll just sit on somebody's lap." From there, I was rooting for everyone to sit so I could take a picture of Westbrook sitting on Durant's lap, or even better, Chris Paul sitting on Kobe's lap. Never happened. When Usain Bolt is gunning for a world record at the Olympics, you stand. Everyone stands.

The race itself was breathtaking. The runners shed their warm-ups, stretched and allowed the drama to build. When they took their blocks, the tension inside the stadium felt exactly like those last few precious seconds before a championship fight. You wait, you wait, you wait, you wait. Your heart is pounding. You don't know what's going to happen. There's no place you would rather be. And then, the gun goes off and human beings start moving at a speed that just doesn't resemble … anything.

Halfway through the race, Bolt started pulling away from the pack and somehow shrank the track. In other words, he was so physically overpowering, he actually made the track seem smaller. I have only seen one other athlete pull off anything resembling that: whenever LeBron jumps into a passing line, swipes an errant pass and explodes from midcourt to the rim in four or five stupefying steps. Whenever that happens, he shrinks the court. This was even more astounding. Usain Bolt was shrinking an 80,000-seat stadium.

In the stands, you could only hear this sound: "Whooooooooooooooooaaaaaaa!" Bolt ripped through the finish line in 9.63 seconds, dragging the field with him — including poor Tyson Gay, who submitted the fifth-fastest time in Olympic history and somehow didn't medal. Maybe we didn't witness a new world record, but we saw an Olympic record. And better than that, we watched someone become immortal. Fifty years from now, my grandkids will ask me if I ever saw Usain Bolt run at the Olympics. I will say yes. They will be impressed.


the rest

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8238766/great-britain-lives-name

[malaise]

9. Here's another great article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/09/usain-bolt-fifth-gold
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Shush, he told the crowd before the start. Calm down, he gestured. So serene was he, so unstressed by the whole thing, that after he had taken care of the necessary business he got down on the track and performed a few press-ups. In between times he ran 200m in 19.32 seconds: not a threat to his own world record, or even to his Olympic record, but certainly good enough to reassert his standing as the world's fastest man.

Yohan Blake, his compatriot and training partner, had beaten Bolt in the national trials at both 100 and 200m, and he did his best once again to give his rival a contest, finishing strongly and closing what had been a big lead as they came off the bend to a margin of 0.4sec – still an eternity – behind the great man. Warren Weir completed a devastating clean sweep of the medals for Jamaica.

As the runners bent to their blocks there was the unusual sight of the United States outnumbered in an Olympic 200m final. Before Thursday night the US had provided 18 out of the 26 winners since the event was first held in 1900, but Wallace Spearmon was the only compatriot of Jesse Owens, Tommie Smith and Michael Johnson on view. He failed to challenge the trio from Kingston's Racers Track Club, finishing fourth, ahead of Churandy Martina of the Netherlands and Christophe Lemaitre of France.

As if to celebrate the presence of Bolt and his fellow Jamaicans, London was blessed with glorious weather. Three more days of this and no one will go home from the 2012 Olympic Games with anything other than the memory of a perfect setting for the kind of athletic excellence enjoyed by another capacity crowd of 80,000.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Cool running!

And the bobsled team was scheduled to begin push training today.

[malaise]

10. LOL

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Congrats

[malaise]

12. Thanks sis

Now we're preparing for an overnight storm

[MineralMan]

13. Yah, mon. Jamaica wins!

Good for them. I'm still hoping for the bobsled team in 2014!

[malaise]

15. LOL

Look for the Bolt comment that he has no respect for Lewis.
As a self confessed doper Carl should STFU.

[panader0]

16. A real class act in addition to being a new track legend! Lightning Bolt!

[malaise]

17. This is hilarious

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[malaise]

18. Half Way Tree today

[spanone]

19. yowzaaaa!!!!!!!

[malaise]

20. LOL