Usain Bolt is at it again.
This time, he finished 19.78 seconds to win gold medal in the Rio Olympics men’s 200m final.
Canada’s Andre De Grasse got silver with a time of 20.02; his second Olympic medal having been awarded bronze in the 100m final in what is his Olympics debut.
Christophe Lemaitre, representing France, was awarded bronze, after finishing in the time 20.12s.
Bolt, who turns 30 on Sunday, August 21, may not be partaking in the next Olympics Games after a possible chance to add another medal in the 4×100 relay final today Friday, August 19.
‘I don’t need to prove anything else. What else can I do to prove to the world I am the greatest?’ Bolt said after becoming the first athlete to win Olympics men’s 200m gold in three consecutive editions after victory in Beijing and London.
‘I am trying to be one of the greatest. Be among (Muhammad) Ali and Pelé. I hope to be in that bracket after these Games’, he added
Nothing else to prove! Now is the time for the fastest man ever timed in the world to get married and start his family.
‘I would hope he’ll settle down, get married and start his family, I know he’ll settle down because he has said it’, his mother Jennifer Bolt told CNN’s Don Riddell.
‘He told me many times that he’s going to start his family’, Jennifer insisted.
‘I am a living legend. Somebody said if I win these three gold medals I would be immortal and I kind of liked it. So I’m going to run with that one,’ Bolt said after winning his third consecutive Olympic 100m gold medal
He holds the world record for the 100 meters (9.58 seconds in 2009) and 200 metres (19.19 in 2009).
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