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Usain Bolt Wins Third Gold Medal in 4×100m relay
Usain Bolt, the Olympic 100m and 200m champion Usain Bolt wins a third gold in the men’s 4×100m as Jamaica storm home in a new world record. In every race that Usain has competed, he has won, and also broken all previous records. Surely Usain Bolt must be crowned the greatest Olympian of Beijing 2008. He was criticised yesterday for “showing off” after winning the 100m – apparently he should show more respect to his fellow competitors. Frankly, such a superman deserves the right to show off a little.
Before today, Usain Bolt won medals for himself only, but today’s Gold medal was a team effort, and one that the Jamaican’s truely deserve. The Jamaican women’s team crashed out of the relay after an error with a baton change over, as did the British women, and the British and American men. The Jamaican men ran superbly, and with the Usain Bol, Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter and Michael Frater.
The Jamaica four smashed the previous world record time of 37.40 seconds, which was set by the USA in the 1992 Olympics, by a relatively massive 0.30 seconds, to win in 37.10 seconds. In the Jamaican team Nesta Carter ran a very strong first leg before passing the baton to Michael Frater, who handed on to Bolt before Asafa Powell brought it home. Asafa Powell held the world record in the 100m between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Usain Bolt ran 100m in 9.69 seconds during the Beijing games.
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Michael Frater ran the 100m final in 9.97 seconds, finishing sixth place, and making a new personal best time for himself.
Defending champions Great Britain failed to reach the final after Craig Pickering failed to receive the baton from Marlon Devonish. A disastrous handover between Darvis Patton and Tyson Gay also denied the USA a place in the final.
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