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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Former American sprinting legend Ed Moses says Usain Bolt should retire from athletics after the Jamaican claimed his sixth Olympic gold medal at London 2012. Bolt became the first athlete since Carl Lewis to defend the 100m title, and then the first...
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Independent
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt will have an extra souvenir to go with his three gold medals after Olympic officials handed over the baton used by the Jamaican sprint relay team in their world record run. Bolt had tried to keep the baton after running the anchor leg as...
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Times of Oman
| 10 months ago
Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt was in trouble with track officials again at the London Olympics on Saturday when he tried to keep the baton from the 4x100 metres relay after the Jamaicans smashed the world record in the event...Bolt told...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
It felt as if the Games were handed over to England's version of the Chamber of Commerce, which decided to take advantage of this final moment in the international spotlight to produce one long and kinetic ad for the country's pop culture. Taking...
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Fiji Times
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt pledged to keep pushing the barriers after the Jamaican team's astonishing relay triumph on Saturday but admitted he may have reached his peak at the London Olympics. The sprint superstar anchored the 4x100m relay team to a world record of...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Toting his third gold medal of the London Games, Usain Bolt gave a little wave to 80,000 or so of his best friends in the Olympic Stadium stands.
Almost immediately, the questions started: What did that mean?...Will the world get to...
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Sacramento Bee
| 10 months ago
Toting his third gold medal of the London Games, Usain Bolt gave a little wave to 80,000 or so of his best friends in the Olympic Stadium stands. Almost immediately, the questions started: What did that mean?...Will the world get to watch him sprint...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning the men's 200m final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium August 9, 2012. London 2012 video Jamaica's Usain Bolt runs past the Olympic flame after setting a new world record of 36.84...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
The sprinter completed the defense of all three Olympic titles by anchoring Jamaica's 4x100-meter relay team to a world record Saturday night. Bolt then hotfooted it from Olympic Stadium to a party nearby in east London, where he turned DJ,...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates his win in the men's 4 x 100-meter relay final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012...IOC President Jacques Rogge wants to set the record straight:...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge hailed Usain Bolt as the greatest sprinter of all time on Sunday as he moved to quell a row with the Jamaican superstar. Bolt brought the curtain down on another glittering Olympic...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
IOC President Jacques Rogge wants to set the record straight: Usain Bolt is an "active" legend and the best sprinter ever.
Rogge raised eyebrows earlier this week when he said the Jamaican runner needed to prove his greatness over more...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
With one final wave, Usain Bolt said goodbye to an adoring British crowd at the Olympic Stadium. The world's greatest sprinter and his Jamaican 4x100 metres relay team mates had delivered the ultimate in athletics, a world record, and now it was time...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
IOC President Jacques Rogge says Usain Bolt is a legend after all.
Rogge said earlier this week the Jamaican sprinter needed to prove his greatness over time before claiming to be a "living legend."
On Sunday, Rogge...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
Jamaica's Usain Bolt, left, crosses the finish line ahead of Ryan Bailey of the United States in the men's 4x100-meter relay final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. Jamaica set a...
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt had three goals for the London 2012 Olympic Games: first was to silence his critics with outstanding performances; second was to be the first runner to win the sprint Double, the 100- and 200-meter dash, in consecutive games. His third...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
As the 30 th Olympic Games draw to a close, it is time to recapture some of the eye-popping moments the world's biggest sporting extravaganza has provided. London Olympics 2012 began with a grand opening ceremony on 27 July which was applauded the...
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The Herald
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt had just won his third gold medal of these Olympics, and the crowd stayed to cheer for Bolt and his Jamaican relay teammates on their victory lap. It wasn't just the Jamaicans basking in the glow this final night of competition in the...
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Asian Tribune
| 10 months ago
34 editor Usain Bolt and Ryan Bailey got the baton at almost exactly the same time Saturday night, then sped down the stretch for the final leg of the 4x100-meter relay...The World's Fastest Man powered Jamaica to a world-record time of 36.84...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
Eyes on London" shows you the Olympics through the eyes of Associated Press journalists across the 2012 Olympic city and around the world. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item. The Associated Press Complete...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Jamaica's Usain Bolt (R) celebrates with Britain's Mo Farah on the podium after each receiving gold medals, Bolt for men's 4x100m relay and Farah for men's 5000m at the victory ceremony at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Highlights from Saturday's action at the Olympics: -- The Jamaican sprint relay team, led by the two fastest men on Earth, established an incredible world record of 36.84. Sprint king Usain Bolt, who usually jogs to the finish line, went all out and...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
More from Jamaica's Usain Bolt after his team posted a world-record time of 36.84 seconds in the 4x100 relay Saturday night.
What else do you want?
"Right now nothing...But right now I have no goals, I'm just like a bum."...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
If anyone had asked me the day before the opening ceremony to write a script for the best Games possible, I think what I would have written would have been what we have seen unfold over these last two weeks...We had to have a fantastic opening...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
American relay coach John Drummond on the world-record performance of the Jamaican 4x100 relay team anchored by Usain Bolt and the U.S. men who got the silver behind them at the London Olympics: "Wow...Listen, when you run as fast as you can and you...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
August 11, 2012 Seb Coe hailed a 'simply unbelievable' display from Kenya's David Rudisha who broke his own world record to claim Olympic gold in the 800m. Rudisha, 23, stormed through the first lap in 49.28 and powered to a stunning...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
Jamaica's Usain Bolt leads United States' Ryan Bailey to win the men's 4 x 100-meter relay final during the athletics in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in London. IN: Someone has just brought Usain Bolt...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt put an exclamation point on a legendary encore Olympic performance, anchoring the Jamaican 4x100-meter relay to another record-setting, gold medal in the final track event of the Games on Saturday night. Four years after setting three...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Jamaica smash record to win relay gold 11 August 2012 Last updated at 20:34 GMT Usain Bolt wins third gold in Jamaica 4x100m relay victory Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the 2012 Olympics as he anchored Jamaica's sprint relay team to a...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 10 months ago
World athletics head Lamine Diack says Usain Bolt is, indeed, a legend. Diack says the Jamaican sprinter "entered the legendary" after retaining his Olympic titles in the 100 and 200 meters at the London Games...The games' head organizer, Sebastian...
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Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
His magnificent run on Thursday night was made all the more memorable by the seeming effortlessness of it all...But because he is a sprinter you can see that he strains to clinch gold, his face contorted with the effort of beating his compatriots,...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Mike Richman August 11, 2012 The world's fastest man is set to compete for an unprecedented "triple-double" at the London Olympics Saturday. Usain Bolt and his fellow Jamaican sprinters are seeking a win in the 4x100-meter relay, with Bolt running...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt is a great athlete. He's the greatest sprinter we've seen in the world over many years. Maybe one time if we can meet in 400 and compete it would be great. Eyes on London" shows you the Olympics through the eyes of Associated Press...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Kenya's Rudisha grew up studying Coe's races and visited the Olympic Stadium with him in February. Rudisha clocked an astonishing 1min 40.91sec to demolish the field and take gold in the fastest 800m race ever, the BBC reports. Rudisha would love to...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics When Usain Bolt crossed the finish line in the Olympic Stadium with his left index finger pressed to his lips after completing his back-to-back sprint double on Thursday night, it seems the doubters he was shushing were not just...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
London Olympics chief organizer Sebastian Coe said Friday he was satisfied that double sprint champion Usain Bolt and his Jamaican team-mates were being properly drug-tested outside of races. Coe was dragged into the row that erupted after Bolt said...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
It was the 41st world record of the London Games, the first on the track in the Olympic Stadium, but for Seb Coe it was simply a performance as good as he has ever seen. David Rudisha's astonishing run in the 800m on Thursday night, coming just...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Watching Usain Bolt go into the record books with his win in the 200m final, what was so striking was not just his incredible talent and the character he has shown in getting himself back from a place where he was struggling a month...
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Herald Net
| 10 months ago
Allyson Felix won her second Olympic gold medal at the London Games and added a world record for good measure as she powered the U.S. sprint relay team past its Jamaican rivals in the 4x100 meters. The 200-meter champion ran a blistering second leg...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
The United States smashed one of the oldest world records on Friday when they won the women's Olympic 4x100m relay title in 40.82sec. The quartet took more than half a second off the 27-year-old record of 41.37sec set by the former East Germany in...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
10 August 2012 Usain Bolt has now broken records both on and off the track. The Jamaican sprinter set a new Twitter Olympic conversation record last night, following his 200m victory, with more than 80,000 tweets per minute. The official Twitter...
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Indian Express
| 10 months ago
A world record crumbles on Rudishas celestial night '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Like fragments of a comets tail, Nigel Amos and others scattered around the finish line, shining still, yet out-dazzled by coma, the comets head.
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
A spat has broken out among the world's two most famous living sprinters, spawning a second argument between IOC president Jacques Rogge and London Olympics head Sebastian Coe. The trouble began when Rogge, speaking to reporters before Usain Bolt's...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Warren Weir completed a sweep in the 200-meter final at the Olympic Stadium. A self-proclaimed "Living Legend," Bolt conquered the seemingly unconquerable as he completed the sprint double, defending the pair of titles he...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Kenya's David Rudisha (R) celebrates with teammate Timothy Kitum after winning the men's 800m in the Olympic Stadium during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 9, 2012. Kenyan David Rudisha's win in the 800 meters in a world record time was...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
After winning just one gold medal in the first week of the London Games, Australia is starting to show some of the form expected of the team from Down Under. Except that most of its Olympic gold medals are coming from competition on the water, not in...
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EW - PopWatch
| 10 months ago
ET Olympics recap, day 13: Usain Bolt makes a big splash... as do U.S. women divers by Adam B. Vary Image Credit: Clive Rose/Getty Images During his semi-regular hazing* last night on NBC's primetime coverage of the Olympic Games, Ryan Seacrest was...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
IOC president Jacques Rogge's downplaying of Bolt's achievements follows his criticism of the sprinter's showboating four years ago, but London 2012 chairman Coe has no doubts...Rogge said yesterday that while Bolt was an icon he was not yet on the...
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Lexington Herald-Leader
| 10 months ago
Bolt makes history and he knows it Usain Bolt heard all the talk...So after leaving the rest of the field in the Olympic 200-meter final far enough behind that he could ease up over the last few strides, Bolt raised his left index finger to his lips...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Alex Livesey/Getty Images For Kenyans smarting from their athletes' failure to live up to admittedly sky-high expectations, David Rudisha 's world record-breaking gold medal win in the 800m final shone all the brighter. "We are overwhelmed.
