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Usain Bolt blasts back into form with the season's fastest 200 metres at the Diamond League Bislett Games

He had said he just wanted get back to the old Usain Bolt, and last night he found himself.

Imperious: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (centre), comes in ahead of Mario Forsyth (left) and Norwegian Jaysuma Saidy Ndure Photo: GETTY IMAGES


By Simon Hart, in Oslo
9:18PM BST 09 Jun 2011

In his first 200 metres race in more than a year, the fastest man on the plant resumed normal service with the quickest time in the world this year, and a victory by more than five metres over his nearest rival. The doubters have been silenced.

“Are you back in business?” he was asked after his victory in 19.86 seconds, claiming the top spot in the world rankings from his compatriot, Nickel Ashmeade.

“I was never out of business,” came the reply. “I think business was just slow. I think people expect too much from me sometimes. I’m only human. But now I’m working my way up and I’m getting there.”

After disappointing in his two previous 100m outings, both times clocking an unconvincing 9.91sec by his soaring standards, Bolt had promised he would be going all out for a quick time in an event that has always been his first love. He was true to his word, running at full throttle all the way, despite appalling conditions for sprinting as a heavy rainstorm hit minutes before the start of his race.

“It was a good race,” he said. “It was my first race in a year and one month so, for me, any time would have been good, but I’m very happy that I went under 20 seconds, which shows I’m in good shape. I just have to work on some technical things.”

With American Tyson Gay all but certain not to contest the 200m this season due to his ongoing injury troubles, Bolt’s performance suggests he could have a clear run all the way to the gold at this summer’s World Championships in South Korea, though there will be no complacency from the giant Jamaican.

“I think Tyson is thinking about his injury,” said Bolt. “I think he has a really bad groin problem that’s bugging him. But for me it’s never about one person. If you focus on one person, someone else can just sneak up on you.”

In a top-class 800m race that reunited all three medallists from the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, South African world champion Caster Semenya found herself upstaged by Moroccan Halima Hachlaf, whose winning time of 1min 58.27sec was the fastest in the world this year.
Semenya, who was third behind Russia’s Mariya Savinova, still managed a season’s best of 1min 58.61sec after leading for all but the final 50 metres and was happy enough with her performance as she continues the build-up to her title defence in August.

“I wanted to run 1.58 or 1.57, so this is good for me,” she said. “I’m not used to running these big races, so starting fast for me maybe wasn’t good for me but I’m very happy with the time.” Jenny Meadows also produced a season’s best of 1min 59.27sec to finish fifth — a performance she described as a psychological boost after being debilitated by a heavy cold in the past week.

“I’m still not quite right and I knew that with 100 metres ago I wasn’t. But after the week after I’ve had, I’m really pleased that I put myself in contention,” she said. “In a week or two, hopefully I’ll be a lot stronger.”
The Wigan athlete has been further inconvenienced by the breakdown of the high-altitude oxygen tent which she been sleeping in for the last few months and has been carting around the world, despite the high fees for overweight baggage.

“I took it to Rabat last week at a ridiculous cost of about £600 and it worked for one night and then it broke,” she said. “So we’ve been ferrying it around and paying a fortune on every airline, even though it’s broken.”
Perri Shakes-Drayton, the European bronze medallist, produced the best British performance of the night, crossing the line in 54.77sec as she made light of the cool, damp conditions to run the third fastest 400m hurdles time of her career. It was not enough to give her victory, which went to the Czech Republic’s Zusana Hejnova in 54.38sec, but the Londoner was delighted with her performance.

“It felt good and I’m pleased there wasn’t that much of a gap between me and the winner,” she said. “I wanted to run faster than I did in Eugene last week and come out and run a 54. I did that, so I’m very happy.”

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19.86s it got rounded down.

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Blistering Bolt cuts loose with a timely reminder to sprint rival Tyson



By Neil Wilson
Last updated at 12:37 AM on 10th June 2011

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Usain Bolt showed he had lost none of his capacity for shock and awe last night when he silenced those who had begun to doubt him with the year's fastest 200 metres.
Bolt seemed to be missing a gear in his opening pair of 100m races but in heavy rain on a slippery track in Oslo's Bislett Stadium at the Samsung Diamond League meeting he ran 19.86sec without any serious opposition.

Centre of attention: Bolt on his way to winning the 200m on a slippery track in Oslo

Bolt had not run the half-lap distance for more than a year, and said at an eve-of-race press conference that he had only just started speed work in training. Yet his time broke a 19-year-old track record set by Frankie Fredericks, a former world champion.
Bolt's start to the season has mildly encouraged the opposition. He has won both his races at 100m but each time in 9.91sec. It is a time most sprinters dream of running, and few ever do so early in the season. Bolt though is not like most sprinters.
He has run super-human times and people, perhaps unreasonably, expect it of him every time he goes to his blocks. He has run 9.58sec, which is 0.11seconds faster than any other human, so his recent times have shown he may not be at the peak of his powers.

Flower power: Bolt celebrates in trademark fashion after winning the 200m

Tyson Gay, the American who has gone closest to Bolt's world record, has not raced in any international meetings yet.

He has been having problems with his hip, missed training and said yesterday: 'I have missed so much training this year because of my hip and everything. Honestly, I am only 75 per cent in the shape I wanted to be.'
Yet in an official race on his training track in Florida last weekend he ran the year's leading time of 9.79sec, beating his Jamaican training partner Steve Mullings, who was the year's fastest at 9.80sec until that race.

Remember that Gay beat Bolt last time they met in Stockholm last August, a defeat put down to Bolt taking 'down-time' after an indifferent winter of training and too much partying.

Title rivals: Tyson Gay, left, beat Usain Bolt in their last showdown

So a moderate start to the season was the last thing the Jamaican needed. Naturally, questions have become pertinent about Bolt.
For one, is the Bolt shot? Are others now more motivated? Asked why he leaves all the play-acting and smiling to Bolt, Gay said bluntly: 'I believe that when you are hungry you don't crack a smile. I am still trying to eat. You'll see the biggest smile ever when I know I have reached my full potential.'
Gay says he is 90 per cent certain he will not run 200m at this year's World Championships and he will not meet Bolt before then but how much he has closed the gap at 100m will become clearer tomorrow when he runs in the next Diamond League meet in New York against Mullings.


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