This was a result to celebrate. This was a win to hold your breath and hope it is never taken away. This was a win that denied victory to a man who had been banned previously.
Usain Bolt won. Again. He is the fastest man in the world. Still. He is a world champion. For the sixth time. He was not to be stopped.
In these drug-muddied championships it was pleasingly poetic that a light summer rain drizzled heaviest as the men's 100 metre field stood at the blocks.
Fittingly, Usain Bolt was greeted with a lightning bolt after his win. Photo: AFP |
In these drug-muddied championships it was not so much poetic, but pleasing still, that Justin Gatlin did not win. The man previously banned for a lengthy period for drugs ran to second. He was stopped by Bolt. He is now deemed clean, but his record is not. The times are the better for him not having won. Not now. Not when the man who was once the fastest man in the world – Bolt's Jamaican teammate Asafa Powell - tests positive to drugs on the eve of the championships. Read more:
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