No lightning as Bolt labors to win
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May 27, 2012, Sunday
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USAIN Bolt labored to victory in the men's 100 meters at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Friday but was at a loss to explain why after failing to improve on his season's best or meet the target he had set himself before the race.
Jamaica's Olympic champion and world record holder clocked 10.04 seconds into a head wind to beat Kim Collins of Saint Kitts & Nevis and American Darvis Patton.
It was the slowest time Bolt has run in his 30 sprint finals and a step down from the 9.82 he produced in his only previous outing this season in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 5.
He had spoken this week of wanting to run around 9.7 as he continues his build-up to this year's London Games.
"I'm disappointed," Bolt told reporters. "At the start I felt pretty much no energy. I guess it was one of those bad days.
"I wasn't feeling as strong as I usually feel out of the blocks, my legs felt dead. I don't know what the reason is. I'll need to go back to the drawing board, talk to the coach."
The 25-year-old Bolt was slow out of the blocks, after South Africa's Simon Magakwe was disqualified for a false start, but easily reeled in Collins, who crossed the line in 10.19 with Patton three one hundredths of a second further back.
Britain's Dwain Chambers was fifth in a season best 10.28 but failed to reach the Olympic qualifying time of 10.18 that would have guaranteed him eligibility for selection.
Chambers, 34, served a two-year doping ban but was cleared to compete at the London Games when the Court of Arbitration overruled a British Olympic life ban on drug offenders.
Elsewhere on the track, defending Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo of Kenya fired a broadside at South African pretender Caster Semenya with a convincing victory in the women's 800.
Jelimo, also the newly-crowned world indoor champion but who missed almost three years of competition after her Beijing Games triumph through injury, dominated the race to win in 1:58.49, with Semenya in second in 2:00.80.
There was more South African disappointment when double amputee Oscar Pistorius raced a horrendous 400 in his ongoing bid to nail qualification for the able-bodied Olympics.
The 25-year-old South African, who runs with carbon-fiber artificial "blades", came in a sorry eighth and last in 47.66, 2.54 seconds off American winner LaShawn Merritt and far away from the 45.70 he needs to run to ensure his participation at the London Games.
Jamaica's Olympic champion and world record holder clocked 10.04 seconds into a head wind to beat Kim Collins of Saint Kitts & Nevis and American Darvis Patton.
It was the slowest time Bolt has run in his 30 sprint finals and a step down from the 9.82 he produced in his only previous outing this season in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 5.
He had spoken this week of wanting to run around 9.7 as he continues his build-up to this year's London Games.
"I'm disappointed," Bolt told reporters. "At the start I felt pretty much no energy. I guess it was one of those bad days.
"I wasn't feeling as strong as I usually feel out of the blocks, my legs felt dead. I don't know what the reason is. I'll need to go back to the drawing board, talk to the coach."
The 25-year-old Bolt was slow out of the blocks, after South Africa's Simon Magakwe was disqualified for a false start, but easily reeled in Collins, who crossed the line in 10.19 with Patton three one hundredths of a second further back.
Britain's Dwain Chambers was fifth in a season best 10.28 but failed to reach the Olympic qualifying time of 10.18 that would have guaranteed him eligibility for selection.
Chambers, 34, served a two-year doping ban but was cleared to compete at the London Games when the Court of Arbitration overruled a British Olympic life ban on drug offenders.
Elsewhere on the track, defending Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo of Kenya fired a broadside at South African pretender Caster Semenya with a convincing victory in the women's 800.
Jelimo, also the newly-crowned world indoor champion but who missed almost three years of competition after her Beijing Games triumph through injury, dominated the race to win in 1:58.49, with Semenya in second in 2:00.80.
There was more South African disappointment when double amputee Oscar Pistorius raced a horrendous 400 in his ongoing bid to nail qualification for the able-bodied Olympics.
The 25-year-old South African, who runs with carbon-fiber artificial "blades", came in a sorry eighth and last in 47.66, 2.54 seconds off American winner LaShawn Merritt and far away from the 45.70 he needs to run to ensure his participation at the London Games.
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