Bolt Wins 9th Olympic Gold Medal: Sweeps Bejiing, London and Rio Sprint Titles
Bolt wins a 9th Olympic gold medal and proves once and for all that he is truly one of the sports' all time greats.
Olympic Legacy
The Jamaican sprint legend anchored the Jamaican team to victory in the 4x100 meter relay Friday night clocking in at 37.27 more than enough time to help Bolt win his 9th Olympic gold and secure an Olympic legacy that is truly one for the books.
Triple Triple Sweep
Bolt has now made a sweep of three sprint titles for a third straight Olympic Games which began in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Overwhelming Opponents
The Jamaican team overwhelmed their opponents in the same dominating fashion they displayed in Beijing and London.
Japan clocked in at 37.60 winning the silver medal lead by prodigy Ryoto Yamagata. It was Japan's first ever Olympic medal in the sprint relay and their 37.60 performance set a new Asian record.
Unfortunately the American team got disqualified when officials saw they made a handoff outside the legal zone. They could have won bronze but instead it went to the Canadian team.
Greatest
Bolt's 9th Olympic gold placed him in the same rarified air shared with Finnish Paavo Nurmi who dominated distance running in the 20th century and with the American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis as the most dominant and successful Olympic track and field athletes in history.
"There you go, I am the greatest. I am just relieved. It's happened. I am just happy, proud of myself. It's come true. The pressure is real. I look at it as an accomplishment." Bolt said according to a Reuters report.
