Bolt wins 200m gold in Moscow...
When Usain Bolt means business, he is still all alone out there.
Bolt coasted to his third straight 200m world title on Saturday, with the race basically wrapped as soon as he entered the finishing straight.
Jamaican teammate Warren Weir never got close to Bolt's world-leading mark of 19.66 seconds, but crossing .13 seconds later for silver still left him enough time to join him in a reggae dance to Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds."
"The energy was great tonight (Saturday)," Bolt said. "The crowd was into it."
Curtis Mitchell of the United States took bronze in 20.24 but was never in the hunt for gold.
Now Bolt will go for his fourth triple gold at a major championship when he joins the Jamaican team for the 4x100m relay on Sunday.
"It should be even better," Bolt said.
The wealth of Jamaican sprinting is such that they might well sweep their American rivals in unprecedented fashion, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce clinched a similar 100m/200m double and also has her final relay late on the closing day of the championships.
The opposition could hardly touch Bolt on Saturday, and once it was clear his right foot was okay after he dropped a starting block on it early in the week, everything was as good as gold.
Bolt coasted to his third straight 200m world title on Saturday, with the race basically wrapped as soon as he entered the finishing straight.
Jamaican teammate Warren Weir never got close to Bolt's world-leading mark of 19.66 seconds, but crossing .13 seconds later for silver still left him enough time to join him in a reggae dance to Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds."
"The energy was great tonight (Saturday)," Bolt said. "The crowd was into it."
Curtis Mitchell of the United States took bronze in 20.24 but was never in the hunt for gold.
Now Bolt will go for his fourth triple gold at a major championship when he joins the Jamaican team for the 4x100m relay on Sunday.
"It should be even better," Bolt said.
The wealth of Jamaican sprinting is such that they might well sweep their American rivals in unprecedented fashion, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce clinched a similar 100m/200m double and also has her final relay late on the closing day of the championships.
The opposition could hardly touch Bolt on Saturday, and once it was clear his right foot was okay after he dropped a starting block on it early in the week, everything was as good as gold.
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