Bolt, Blake coast in Zurich
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September 1, 2012, Saturday
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USAIN Bolt and Yohan Blake both set Weltklasse meet records despite rain and cold winds at the Weltklasse Diamond League event in Zurich on Thursday.
The hottest star attractions in athletics continued to fulfill their post-London Olympics plan of dividing the glamor sprints between them - and making fast times seem routine. Bolt playfully shivered for the television cameras at the 200 meters starting line, then timed 19.66 seconds in the fastest half-lap race ever seen in Zurich.
"Running after the Olympics is much more fun, it is less stress. The fans make me enjoy it," Bolt said.
Earlier in the 100, fellow Jamaican Blake blazed to victory in 9.76, after Tyson Gay of the United States was disqualified for a false start.
There was a major surprise in the 800 as Olympic champion David Rudisha was beaten by Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia. Rudisha was targeting the world record he set at the London Games but said he was unsettled by the poor weather.
Bolt is no lover of the cooler European climate, yet still set a record for the high-class Weltklasse meeting which has long called itself "the Olympics in two hours."
The triple Olympic gold medalist was only a meter clear of Nickel Ashmeade in the final straight then muscled through to widen the gap.
"I paced myself in the curve. I'm happy to achieve a sub-20 time but I did not want to push my body," Bolt said.
Bolt's 19.66, without a following wind, was .13 faster than Wallace Spearmon of the US ran here two years ago. He also pulled through Ashmeade, who could not even make the Jamaican Olympic team at 200, to a personal best of 19.85.
Blake ran perhaps a technically better race than Bolt, and used a chilling 1.4 meter per second wind to accelerate clear of Olympic relay teammate Nesta Carter, who finished second in 9.95.
The hottest star attractions in athletics continued to fulfill their post-London Olympics plan of dividing the glamor sprints between them - and making fast times seem routine. Bolt playfully shivered for the television cameras at the 200 meters starting line, then timed 19.66 seconds in the fastest half-lap race ever seen in Zurich.
"Running after the Olympics is much more fun, it is less stress. The fans make me enjoy it," Bolt said.
Earlier in the 100, fellow Jamaican Blake blazed to victory in 9.76, after Tyson Gay of the United States was disqualified for a false start.
There was a major surprise in the 800 as Olympic champion David Rudisha was beaten by Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia. Rudisha was targeting the world record he set at the London Games but said he was unsettled by the poor weather.
Bolt is no lover of the cooler European climate, yet still set a record for the high-class Weltklasse meeting which has long called itself "the Olympics in two hours."
The triple Olympic gold medalist was only a meter clear of Nickel Ashmeade in the final straight then muscled through to widen the gap.
"I paced myself in the curve. I'm happy to achieve a sub-20 time but I did not want to push my body," Bolt said.
Bolt's 19.66, without a following wind, was .13 faster than Wallace Spearmon of the US ran here two years ago. He also pulled through Ashmeade, who could not even make the Jamaican Olympic team at 200, to a personal best of 19.85.
Blake ran perhaps a technically better race than Bolt, and used a chilling 1.4 meter per second wind to accelerate clear of Olympic relay teammate Nesta Carter, who finished second in 9.95.
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