{"id":12581,"date":"2017-08-04T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/usain-bolts-final-100m-race-there-he-goes\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:45:00","slug":"usain-bolts-final-100m-race-there-he-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/usain-bolts-final-100m-race-there-he-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt's Final 100m Race: 'There He Goes'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Usain Bolt from Jamaica celebrates winning the gold medal in the men’s 200-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n

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Saturday in London, Jamaican Usain Bolt will run a final 100 meters at track and field’s World Championships at approximately 4:45 p.m. ET. A week later, after a relay finale, he says he’ll retire. Bolt will leave with an eye-popping highlight reel that includes eight Olympic gold medals over the past three summer games.<\/p>\n

Initially, there were nine golds – the hallowed Triple Triple \u2013 he won the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 X 100 relay in three straight Olympic games \u2013 2008, 2012 and 2016. But earlier this year<\/a>, Bolt lost one of the medals when a teammate on the 2008 Jamaican relay team tested positive for a banned drug after his urine sample was re-analyzed by the International Olympic Committee in 2016.<\/p>\n

Nine or 8, I was lucky enough to see all the races.<\/p>\n

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