Having chased it down and exploded it into unlikely tenths and hundredths for more than a decade, it finally caught up with him. He went through the motions of his pre-race hype routine, striking the poses, but his heart wasn’t quite in it. Even so, the feeling around the stadium, and the world, was that he would have enough for one last hurrah. Ever since Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic champion, returned to the sport after his second doping ban in 2010, he has played a shadowy Moriarty to Bolt’s effortless Holmes. The more fans have cheered Bolt, running clean, the more they have heckled Gatlin, for having run dirty.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2017 23:19 UTC