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September 18, 2011, Sunday
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JAMAICAN Yohan Blake blazed to the second fastest 200 meters of all time at the Van Damme Memorial Diamond League meeting in Brussels on Friday, upstaging compatriot and training partner Usain Bolt who clocked the quickest 100 of the season.
Blake, who won the world 100 title in Daegu, South Korea, last month after Bolt was disqualified from the final, stunned the capacity crowd by clocking 19.26, just seven-hundreds of a second behind Bolt's world record set in Berlin in 2009.
Blake, the man seen as the main challenger to Bolt's supremacy, said he was surprised by the time.
"I knew I could do something crazy... but to be honest I was surprised when I saw the clock at the finishing line," he told reporters.
Bolt, the Olympic 100 and 200 champion, failed to deliver in the 100 in Daegu after leaving the blocks too early, and was far from the first to rise on Friday, needing to drive hard to push past fellow Jamaican Nesta Carter. His time of 9.76 was two hundredths of a second quicker than the previous season-best of compatriot Asafa Powell set in June.
So who is the world's fastest man now? "Well, he is the world No. 1," Blake said referring to Bolt. "In the 200 meters, well, I would say, yeah, I'm No. 1."
Bolt, who retained his 200 world title in South Korea, was his usual confident self and said he was not worried by Blake's time.
"Listen, you need to understand, I've done great things. Yohan is coming, he is going to be a great athlete, but I'm not afraid of one athlete," Bolt said. "I'm still No. 1. He has to beat me a couple of times before I have to start getting worried. He still has a long way to go."
Double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, who limped out of the 10,000 meters at the worlds, ran the fastest time of the season in 26 minutes 43.16 seconds after a last-lap sprint with Kenya's Lucas Kimeli Rotich, who smashed his personal best by almost 30 seconds.
In the women's 100, the one-two-three was a repeat of the Daegu final. American Camelita Jeter proved she is this season's form sprinter with a time of 10.78, ahead of Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago.
Blake, who won the world 100 title in Daegu, South Korea, last month after Bolt was disqualified from the final, stunned the capacity crowd by clocking 19.26, just seven-hundreds of a second behind Bolt's world record set in Berlin in 2009.
Blake, the man seen as the main challenger to Bolt's supremacy, said he was surprised by the time.
"I knew I could do something crazy... but to be honest I was surprised when I saw the clock at the finishing line," he told reporters.
Bolt, the Olympic 100 and 200 champion, failed to deliver in the 100 in Daegu after leaving the blocks too early, and was far from the first to rise on Friday, needing to drive hard to push past fellow Jamaican Nesta Carter. His time of 9.76 was two hundredths of a second quicker than the previous season-best of compatriot Asafa Powell set in June.
So who is the world's fastest man now? "Well, he is the world No. 1," Blake said referring to Bolt. "In the 200 meters, well, I would say, yeah, I'm No. 1."
Bolt, who retained his 200 world title in South Korea, was his usual confident self and said he was not worried by Blake's time.
"Listen, you need to understand, I've done great things. Yohan is coming, he is going to be a great athlete, but I'm not afraid of one athlete," Bolt said. "I'm still No. 1. He has to beat me a couple of times before I have to start getting worried. He still has a long way to go."
Double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, who limped out of the 10,000 meters at the worlds, ran the fastest time of the season in 26 minutes 43.16 seconds after a last-lap sprint with Kenya's Lucas Kimeli Rotich, who smashed his personal best by almost 30 seconds.
In the women's 100, the one-two-three was a repeat of the Daegu final. American Camelita Jeter proved she is this season's form sprinter with a time of 10.78, ahead of Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago.
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