Bolt finished 3rd in 100 meters; Gatlin wins

JackD201

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Too bad your compatriot was out due to injury Bob. He could have won this. These are not exceptional times.
 

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Yes Jack, I have been following the news recently (for the last week) on the world's fastest 100m sprinters.
http://nationalpost.com/sports/loss...fans/wcm/8c43e4e1-c41e-4a45-85e1-3a00ae43d7b6

Andre is only 22, but it is hard to imagine another opportunity of this envergure in the future.

Earlier (few days ago) I've read this: • http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/s...ot-happy-andre-de-grasse-disrespect-1.4230990

It's a tough life to be among the best in sports, because of the sensitivity, the rush to be the best, the doping, the emotions, the injuries and all the jazz that comes with it. It's a bit like to be a rock star, or a movie star in some quarters of the sky. I'm sure the competition is fierce @ times on many levels.
It is also a high business level; look @ Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior for example very recently. He's only 25.
https://www.si.com/soccer/2017/08/03/neymar-transfer-psg-barcelona-world-record-fee

To excel in sports and in life with your friends and family is something we all look forward. I do, as they exemplify kids' role models.
We want to be good @ everything, to be the best, among the best.

I was quite surprised by that last race and Usain Bolt finishing third. And we'll never know what rank Andre would have raced in that final race...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_De_Grasse

Keep on running, keep on dancing, keep on moving to music listening ...
 

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It didn't go well either in the 4x100m relay: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mor...pUybU?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp&OCID=ansmsnnews11




Fireworks for the winner goes off as Jamaica's Usain Bolt falls after suffering an injury, during the men's 4x100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in London Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.


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* And one year after: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/rio-de-janeiro-year-olympics-gallery-1.3369398
The glory of the moment, and the misery later on: https://gizmodo.com/rio-looks-apocalyptic-a-year-after-the-olympics-1797752593
 
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JackD201

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No matter. Still the greatest ever IMO.
 

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He is the greatest ever. That was just the latest news on sports. ...Sports that have some of my greatest interest.
It just happened; he finished third in the 100 meters (because of a slow start @ the blocks) and had a cramp in his leg in the 4x100 meters and couldn't finished because of the pain.
It must be even more painful emotionally. But he is still the greatest ever; nobody can take that away from him, not even himself.
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Then I added last year Rio summer games premises one year after; that too was in the news and it paints a not so rosy picture. It looks abandoned like a ghost town. It is deteRIOrating, decomposing, rusting, adding a sour view, a big machine adding more garbage, decline, violence and poverty (favelas, or slums).
They can't afford to pay the bills in maintenance. It is sad, but it is reality; the price to pay when hosting the games in a beautiful setting (Rio de Janeiro) with many financial issues in infrastructures and poor living conditions for a large part of its population. We've seen this before in other countries as well.

I am a huge fan of the Summer Olympic Games every four years. It brings all the countries together in a spirit of fraternity and peace.
...All positive competition; among all the athletes from all over and among all the hosting world's cities.
And there is also an undeniable underground true reality. It is a balance of everything that each one of us assesses from his own eyes.
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But Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter ever. Anything else it don't matter, it just happened, it's just some of the latest news of the IAAF World Athletics Championships London 2017.
 
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