Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter, broke the world record as he blitzed his rivals to claim the Olympic gold medal in the 100 metres final in Beijing.
Jamaican Usain Bolt, who was calm, confident and even cocky before the race, sliced 0.03 seconds off his own world record to register a new best of 9.69. He even had the audacity to pose and celebrate before crossing the line — a sign that this incredible sprinter can surely go much faster. Oh, and his favored event, the 200 meters, is yet to come.
Bolt, 21, who nearly did not run in the event because he considers himself better at 200 metres, recorded a time of 9.69 seconds. He would surely have done a time of around 9.6 seconds if he had pushed himself all the way to the line.
“I want to say, I came here to prove I am the best. I have trained for years for this and prepared for this. I’m just happy, I came here to prove that I’m the best in the world and I did that. I came here with a plan and I executed it,” he said
Equally ecstatic silver medalist Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago ran a personal best time of 9.89 seconds, as did Walter Dix of the United States, who ran 9.91 to take bronze.
The pre-race talk of the final being a showdown between Bolt, his compatriot Asafa Powell and US world champion Tyson Gay didn’t materialize. Gay didn’t reach the finals, and a tense looking Powell was never in the hunt of the medals and finished in fifth place.
Do you think this will be the end of Gold Medal drought in Olympic Games ?, I think so because I believe in Lee Chong who Wei has secured at least a silver medal for Malaysia in the Beijing Olympics.
The national one shuttler and second seed for the men’s singles event here defeated South Korean Lee Hyun-il 21-18, 13-21, 21-13 in the semi-finals Friday at the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium.
Chong Wei will now take on top seeded Lin Dan from China in the final Sunday.
The Chinese player beat his compatriot Chen Jin 21-12, 21-18 in the other last four men’s singles clash.
By booking his place in the final, which will be played on Sunday, the 26-year-old Penangite now stands to pocket at least RM300,000 as an incentive from the Govvernment.
If he manages to win Malaysia’s first ever Olympic gold, Chong Wei will pocket a whopping RM1mil.
Malaysia has won a total of three Olympic medals thus far – one silver and two bronze medals – which were all delivered by shuttlers.
Before the last four clash here, the record between Chong Wei and Lee was even for this year.
Chong Wei beat Lee in the Malaysian Open final in three games.
When they next clashed in the Korean Open, Lee whipped Chong Wei in the second round and went on to beat world number one Lin Dan in a three-game thriller for the title.
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Please booked your time for today’s olympic games since I believe a lot of actions will be produced by our athletes for day 7, 2008 Beijing Olympic.
ARCHERY: Prequarterfinals (Olympics Archery Field) 10.56 am Cheng Chu Sian (MAS) vs Lee Chang Hwan (KOR)
BADMINTON: Men’s singles semifinals (Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium) 6.30 pm Lee Chong Wei (MAS) vs Lee Hyun il (KOR)
CYCLING: Team sprint qualifying (Laoshan Velodrome) 4.30 pm Malaysia (Azizul Hasni Awang, Josiah Ng, Rizal Tisin)
DIVING: Women’s 3m Springboard Preliminary (National Aquatics Centre) 1.30 pm Leong Mun Yee, Elizabeth Jimie
SAILING: Laser Race 4, 5 and 6 (Qindao) 12 noon Kevin Lim
SHOOTING: Men’s Rapid fire Qualifying (Beijing Shooting Range) 1 pm Hasli Izwan Amir Hasan
SWIMMING: Women’s 50m freestyle heats (National Aquatics Centre) 6.33 pm Leung Chii Lin
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