Hard to pen down the best moment of 2016. Perhaps, one of the best moments of Rio 2016 is Usain Bolt running off to hug the South African 400 metres Olympics champion with a fresh World and Olympic timing. Till the third leg of the 4x100 relay, Jamaica, Canada, USA were at each other's shoulder. On the fourth leg, the baton was passed on to Usain Bolt on the sprint. He won it. 9 gold medals; three each in Beijing, London and Rio. Commentators put up a note on the sound waves: Bolt or Phelps? It could take years for a Bolt or Thorpe repeat. For me it is Bolt as me has run; never swum. Bolt filled stadias for nine years, no athlete has done it. But for style me still prefers the Ben Johnson 100 metre dash in Seoul Olympics in 9.79 seconds; Ben was scratched for doping; but that run still stampedes the mind. Usain Bolt has power and rhythm in arms and legs; but not laced in something called an elegance. For me, the 20 km and 50 km walk, have style; minimal movements; feet tapping away, a rhyming; afraid of red paddles from judges all along the distances; italicised hand written notes on Brasil roads; Star Sports TV 1,2,3,4 did not show much of it, well they did not show anything. Bolt has everything to his name, golds and records. In Usain Bolt: Faster Than Lightning: My Autobiography with Matt Allen (2013), he muses over Rio 2016. 'The scariest thing for me after Moscow 2013 has been planning my next move. What can I do next? Will I better myself? Can I continue winning? I know I've got another solid season in me, maybe two, but can I go all the way to the next Olympics in Rio? That's the only thing that makes me sit and wonder because its a big challenge -- the biggest yet, possibly. Two or three years feels like a long time in track and field because a lot can happen. Its scary and exciting at the same time. I love competition, I thrive off it. Just the thought of trying to get to Brazil gives me a spark. .... Imagine if I managed to win gold, though. The parties in Rio would be off the scale.' You won Three Golds in Rio 2016. You sure will be downing coke and Jamaican rums or maybe something better for man nights. Let your legs and arms down. And why not? Winds up: Believe me, my time isnt up just yet. For me, to take off from Kipling, Bolt is not propaganda; he is a song.
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Bolt or Phelps?
Hard to pen down the best moment of 2016. Perhaps, one of the best moments of Rio 2016 is Usain Bolt running off to hug the South African 400 metres Olympics champion with a fresh World and Olympic timing. Till the third leg of the 4x100 relay, Jamaica, Canada, USA were at each other's shoulder. On the fourth leg, the baton was passed on to Usain Bolt on the sprint. He won it. 9 gold medals; three each in Beijing, London and Rio. Commentators put up a note on the sound waves: Bolt or Phelps? It could take years for a Bolt or Thorpe repeat. For me it is Bolt as me has run; never swum. Bolt filled stadias for nine years, no athlete has done it. But for style me still prefers the Ben Johnson 100 metre dash in Seoul Olympics in 9.79 seconds; Ben was scratched for doping; but that run still stampedes the mind. Usain Bolt has power and rhythm in arms and legs; but not laced in something called an elegance. For me, the 20 km and 50 km walk, have style; minimal movements; feet tapping away, a rhyming; afraid of red paddles from judges all along the distances; italicised hand written notes on Brasil roads; Star Sports TV 1,2,3,4 did not show much of it, well they did not show anything. Bolt has everything to his name, golds and records. In Usain Bolt: Faster Than Lightning: My Autobiography with Matt Allen (2013), he muses over Rio 2016. 'The scariest thing for me after Moscow 2013 has been planning my next move. What can I do next? Will I better myself? Can I continue winning? I know I've got another solid season in me, maybe two, but can I go all the way to the next Olympics in Rio? That's the only thing that makes me sit and wonder because its a big challenge -- the biggest yet, possibly. Two or three years feels like a long time in track and field because a lot can happen. Its scary and exciting at the same time. I love competition, I thrive off it. Just the thought of trying to get to Brazil gives me a spark. .... Imagine if I managed to win gold, though. The parties in Rio would be off the scale.' You won Three Golds in Rio 2016. You sure will be downing coke and Jamaican rums or maybe something better for man nights. Let your legs and arms down. And why not? Winds up: Believe me, my time isnt up just yet. For me, to take off from Kipling, Bolt is not propaganda; he is a song.
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