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Monday, August 6, 2012

Usian Bolt And Justin Gatlin's Post Race Banter

I guess all the trash talk leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games by and between the world's fastest man Usain Bolt and American sprinter Justin Gatlin came to close on Sunday. Shortly after Usain Bolt retained his Olympic Games100m title, he could not avoid being asked about his rival American Justin Gatlin - who he said has spoken out of turn this year. It was a response many Americans, including Galtin himself, would have wanted Bolt to regret after they raced yesterday.

Gatlin, who just over a year again returned from a four-year drugs ban, weeks ago said he was ready to take down Bolt in London - a comment the world record holder rightly replied to by saying "I think Gatlin has a few guys he needs to get past before he worries about me."

On Sunday after the men's 100m final, before Bolt had time to make his trademark 'to the worl' signal, Gatling offered him congratulations, but it wasn't enough to save him from Bolt's later comments. "Justin has been saying a lot of things, I wanted to run with him from the semi-finals, I was praying (for it to happen), but it didn't," Bolt said, while hinting he wanted to beat him from then.

 "People can talk a lot of things, you can say anything you want, showing up and do what you got to do is a different thing, so for me it was all business," Bolt continued.

Bolt said Jamaican athletes again proved they rule the sprints. "This is always a competition against the Americans to see who the sprint champions are, to see who is number one"

"Shelly-Ann did great, no doubt my money was on her yesterday. We both defended our titles and showed the world Jamaica is a great sprinting country." Both Bolt and Fraser-Pryce won the 100m titles in Beijing, four years ago, and will see action later this as they attempt to qualify for the 200m.

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