Usain Bolt shocked by Yohan Blake's 100m Olympic trials win
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Usain Bolt suffered a major upset in the 100m final at the Jamaican Olympic trials as world champion Yohan Blake won in a time of 9.75 seconds.
Olympic champion Bolt was second in 9.86, with former world record holder Asafa Powell third in 9.88.
Blake's time - the fastest in the world this year - was a new personal best and makes him the fourth fastest man of all time.
The result sees all three men qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.
Blake's time means the only faster men in the world are Bolt, who holds the world record of 9.58, American Tyson Gay, who has run 9.69, and Powell, whose quickest time is 9.72.
"No pressure at all... everything is good. I'm just fortunate," Blake said after beating his personal best of 9.82. "I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this."
Bolt was slow out of the blocks in both the final and semi-final and said afterwards of his start: "I had to ignore it. I had trouble getting out, but I kept feeling like I could not give up."
It was the first time Bolt and Blake had faced each other since Blake took the world title in Daegu last year, after the Olympic champion was disqualified for a false start.
Bolt, who won Olympic gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the 2008 Games in Beijing, had held the previous fastest time in the world this year after clocking 9.76 in Rome last month.
Powell tweeted: "Tore my groin on the first round of the trials. Your strength and prayers willed me through the pain and on to the London Olympics."
In the semi-finals, it was Powell who clocked the fastest time of 9.92 seconds, with Blake third in the same race, behind Nesta Carter.
After a slow start Bolt eventually took the lead midway through his semi-final and won in 10.01, nosing out Michael Frater on 10.02.
In the women's 100m final, defending Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce broke the Jamaican record with a time of 10.70 seconds, with Veronica Campbell-Brown second and Kerron Stewart third.
Nearly 400 Jamaican athletes have been competing for about 60 berths in London in what could be the largest athletics delegation ever sent to an Olympics by the Caribbean nation.
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I would've thought any foul play would have been exposed by now. Sorry SwampPuppet, but one comment by a competitor, four years ago, isn't enough in my opinion to question the integrity of these sportsmen.
Quote: “He [Bolt] knows I work harder, much harder,” Blake said. “He has said it himself, but now he is training harder, too."
So they both train very, very hard
At least no silly false starts happened to rule out the big stars, I wonder if London is insured against Bolt's absence? Should be a great race anyway, just hope Gatlin doesn't figure in the medals.
Anyway, even though Usain didn't quite look himself, I would agree that it isn't a 'shock' as he did what he needed to qualify. He's expected to perform superhuman feats every time he steps on the track and that just isn't gonna happen. I still expect him to win in London.
Every country has their drugs cheats but that doesn't mean all their athletes cheat.Sprinting is what Jamaica excels at, they have little or no presence in other disciplines. They're brilliant in one area why try and take that away?
So what is it? are you guys jealous? or is it that you want us to fail? Do you think we are two small as a nation to accomplish such feat naturally? Obviously you are upset. Sad thing is I doubt you know any thing about Jamaican and their approach to sports. Maybe you read about Jamaica but I doubt you have what it takes to understand because if you did you would not be ranting like that
What are you talking about? There isn't general suspicion of Jamaican athletes!
You need to remove that chip. There are plenty of people that have been suspected & caught from 'developed' countries.
But to anyone who can see farther than the end of their nose, absence of a anti-doping body in Jamaica would be a concern.