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#BOLT MUSIC RESCUE TRIAL#

After he clinched the long-distance double at the London Games, he is a favorite to repeat the 5,000-10,000 double at the Luzhniki Stadium. “I don’t ever remember going into a world championships with this sort of - I don’t want to say doldrums, but I’d be lying if I said we have the normal anticipation and hype going into the worlds,” four-time Olympic medalist and commentator Ato Boldon said.īesides Bolt, Mo Farah will be going for multiple golds.

#BOLT MUSIC RESCUE TRIAL#

One year later, Pistorius is preparing for his murder trial in the Valentine Day’s shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The double amputee South African enthralled the 80,000-seat capacity crowds, proving that competing can be as important as winning. Besides Bolt, no track athlete quite sparked the London Games like Oscar Pistorius.

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And the local crowd won’t even be able to shout for the defending champion, Tatyana Chernova, since she, too, is injured. Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill is also a no-show because of an Achilles tendon problem. The Kenyan, however, has seen his season go to waste because of a knee injury, robbing the championships of another big star. The London Olympics still had plenty of world records, and none of the four was bigger than David Rudisha’s gold rush in the 800. “The 200 world record would be the one I’d really love to break again, to see if it’s maybe even possible to get it under 19 seconds,” Bolt said.Īnd when Bolt sets himself a challenge, he all too often turns it into reality. Bolt set the world record of 19.19 seconds at the 2009 worlds, but still feels he can improve. His competition will be as much the clock as teammate Warren Weir. In his favorite race, the 200, Bolt is going for his third straight world title. “We’re both the kind of people that turn it on when the lights come on in a competition.” “He knows that I’m going to come with my A and he’s going to come with his A game,” Gatlin said. The 2004 Olympic champion already beat the Jamaican at the Diamond League meet in Rome this spring, Bolt’s only competitive flaw this season.

The scandals leave Justin Gatlin as Bolt’s toughest competitor in the worlds’ premier event. sprint spots for Moscow after failing an out-of-competition doping test.Īlmost at the same time, it was announced that former world-record holder Asafa Powell tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrone at the Jamaican national championships in June. Yet even though the American has the two top times over the 100 this year, Gay’s year, and perhaps his career, came crashing down when he relinquished his U.S. In Blake’s absence, a revitalized Tyson Gay was to challenge hard. But the sprinter who won the world title in Daegu, South Korea, two years ago after Bolt false-started is out with a hamstring injury. This year was supposed to give him another shot. Only a year ago, Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake was challenging Bolt for Olympic supremacy in London. “Right now, my only focus is winning three gold medals,” Bolt said in an email exchange with The Associated Press. And with seven world championship medals already, a triple of any color would also move him alongside American great Carl Lewis as the most decorated man in the event’s history with 10 overall. Bolt won three golds at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, three at the London Games and three more at the 2009 worlds in Berlin.