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A victory in the World Athletics Championships is usually something to cheer. Not so last night when the American athlete Justin Gatlin won the 100 metres, defeating Usain Bolt in his final race. The American athlete, who’s served two bans for doping, was jeered by crowds at the London stadium.
Bolt by name. Bolt by nature. The fastest man on the planet is back in the UK ahead of this weekend’s Athletics World Championships in London. Usain Bolt said it will be his swansong, after winning 8 Olympic golds and becoming the most famous face – and sporting icon in the world.
It’s a potential treat for people missing the Olympic thrill. Two of the world’s top runners, sprinter Usain Bolt and long-distance champion Mo Farah, hint they would be up for a race over 600 metres.
Usain Bolt says he plans to defend his sprint titles at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games rather than trying a different event, as he had previously suggested.
Usain Bolt’s victory in the 200m makes him the first to do the “double double” of winning both sprinting distances at two Olympics. But there are other contenders for greatest Olympian of all time.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt makes up for last week’s disqualification in the World Athletics Championships 100m, winning the 200m final in a time of 19.40 seconds.
Channel 4 News obtains exclusive footage showing Usain Bolt’s anger at himself after being disqualified for a false start in the 100m final. Keme Nzerem reports.
Usain Bolt watches his teammate Yohan Blake win the men’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships after false-starting. It follows similar disappointments for Team GB, as Keme Nzerem reports.
Sprint stars tell Channel 4 News that catching the world’s fastest man is all in the mind, as Bolt prepares to defend his crown in South Korea.
The 100m world record holder, Usain Bolt, says he wants to enjoy life – as well as breaking 9.4 seconds at next year’s London Olympics – writes Channel 4 News sports reporter Keme Nzerem.
Responding to questions about recent drug scandals to hit athletics, the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, says he has been “doing phenomenal things since he was 15”.
Usain Bolt leads a Jamaican clean sweep in the Olympic 200m, completing a historic sprint double at both sprint distances in London and Beijing. Meanwhile Team GB’s Jade Jones takes taekwondo gold.
The 100m world record holder Usain Bolt and his Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake battle it out today in one of the most eagerly contests of the London Olympics.
Usain Bolt sets a new Olympic record of 9.63 secs to win gold in the men’s 100m final at the Olympic Stadium.
It seems almost insulting to whittle the entire Olympics down to a single event. And a single athlete – Usain Bolt. But he is the undisputed star of Olympic sport, eclipsing the considerable and combined talents of Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorious, and GB’s very own Steve Redgrave in his bamboozling, hellaciously brilliant, God-given talent.