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London 2012: Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake rivalry adds more excitment to track events
Didn’t quite work out that way.
At Jamaica’s Olympic trials, Bolt was glacially slow in unfurling his 6-foot-5 frame from the starting blocks, leading to questions about whether the aftershock of last year’s false start was still playing in his mind. Still, Blake was impressive in his own right. He beat Bolt by 0.11 seconds. To put that in perspective, when Bolt coasted to a victory in a then-world-record 9.69 seconds in Beijing, his margin of victory over Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago was 0.20.
So it seems safe to say Bolt is not completely out of the picture.
But he does have some ground to make up.
“It’s just all about the work,” Bolt said. “I’ve just got to put in the work, got to figure out what I did wrong and just keep working at it.”
