Usain Bolt Wins Olympic 100m Gold | London 2012 Olympic Games/Olympics

Well we're building up now to the final of the men's 100 meters. Usain Bolt the run in the seventh lane. He was the first Jamaican to win gold in the 100 meters. Previous winners Jesse Owens, Harrison Dillard, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Maurice Green and Justin Gapton himself who appears once again here. He was the 2004 champion and Usain Bolt of course in Beijing set a new Olympic record and was at that time the world record. What a lineup we have. Jamaica versus the United States. Another Trinidadian in there. There's the lineup. Thompson Trinidad, Powell Jamaica, Gay USA, Blake Jamaica, Gatlin USA, Bolt Jamaica, Bailey USA, Martina in the That's Asafa Powell. Fastest loser through to this final. Tyson Gay 9.90 in qualification. Second fastest all time with 9.69 behind this man. World record holder at 9.58. Gatlin looked good. The American, the former Olympic champion. He's in the next lane to Bolt and they'll spur each other on. More pensive look about the face of the defending champion. Yohan Blake pacing in the background. Won the Jamaican trial. Richard Thompson. Two Olympic silver medals in Beijing. Won in this event the 100 meters and in the 4x100 meters. Asafa Powell, the former world record holder at 9.72. Got through to the final as a fastest loser. Slipped up in the semi-final 9.94. Tyson Gay, former world 100 and 200 meter champion. The second fastest all time 9.69. Coming back from injury. World champion from Daegu last year. Yohan Blake of Jamaica. Fastest man in the world this year thus far. Pacing in the background. The former Olympic champion. 9.82 in qualification. Look to have more in the tank. Justin Gatlin has won 9.80 this season too. Failure supplies really in the American team. He was third in the trial. Equal his personal best in the heat at 9.88. The European 200 meter champion. Chirandi Martina of the Netherlands. 9.91 mindset in the EU personal best. The Olympic men's 100 meters final. Thompson Trinidad. Powell Jamaica. Gay USA. Blake Jamaica. Gatlin USA. Bolt Jamaica. Bailey USA. Martina of the Netherlands. Oh they're away and Gatlin got away brilliantly and he's ahead of the field and Bolt going very near. He is the fastest man on the planet. 0.63. A superb demonstration of power sprinting. What a performance that was. Gatlin attacked early but Bolt got into his running really. It was an unbelievable run and Blake I think got the silver he did and Gatlin got the bronze. But Jamaica won on two. A reversal of the result in the Jamaican trials earlier on this year but my goodness me. There's Gatlin getting his celebration. He couldn't beat these two. They promised and they delivered. Usain Bolt became the first Jamaican to win the Olympic title in 2008 and once again Asafa Powell finds himself out of the medals in eighth place. He didn't really finish did he? But anyway the race was on and at halfway Usain Bolt emerged from the pack and powered his way to the line in the most emphatic way. He is the fastest man. He's had his problems over the last couple of seasons if we ever doubted him. Then the new Olympic record is set here which breaks the record he set in Beijing four years ago. Well that now goes to the record books and that is the showman back in form and Johan Blake too and Justin Gatlin carrying the flag for the United States. This time Jamaica prevailed didn't they? In the past of course we've had Carl Lewis, we've had Maurice Green, we've had Justin Gatlin but this time we've got the Jamaican threat once again. Asafa Powell well once again proved not to be the championship man. But apart from him the whole of the rest of the field broke 10 seconds. Blake equaled his personal best. Gatlin ran a personal best 9.75 and 9.79 there but the king has retained his crown. Let's look again. Bolt got a very good start not the best but very good. Back Gatlin was slightly ahead of him. Blake going very strongly so too Tyson Gay. These great four men before we expected. Powell pulls up there but here comes Bolt transcending the world of athletics once again as a superstar of world sport. Yeah he really did. Gatlin got away the better of the two I must say but and Blake was a little bit under pressure look at this. This is the point at which he moved away and how can you do this? This is the Olympic final. It's not a heat, it's not a semi-final, it's the Olympic final and that should not happen but he is so far ahead of the rest. So far ahead and there is the evidence. 9.63, 9.75, 9.79 that was incredible and this crowd here have seen a demonstration by the man they've seen on posters all around this athletics arena, all around the town of London, all on our television screens. They've seen him in person, they've seen him deliver and my goodness didn't he deliver. The showman is back. The hottest ticket in the world of sport and fully delivering it. Usain Bolt 9.63 new Olympic record. Johan Blake 9.75 the silver. Justin Gatlin 9.79 the bronze and the rest well what a performance. Everyone except Asafa Powell as you said sub 10 seconds. How the crowd were privileged to see this man in action. It is a privilege, it was keenly anticipated and it lived up to its rich promise just as last night was a great night and lived up to its promise. So too this final race of day three of the Olympic Games here in London 2012. There was an element of showmanship early on. Let's look at it once again. Gatlin certainly came out lower. He was a little bit ahead early on and you thought well Gatlin looked good in qualifying but then this man opened the burners and once he did you cannot stop him. Look at him looking at the clock already. He's looking at the clock. He's not worried about the people around him. He's watching the clock and he said have I got oh look at that near the world record. It's not a world record. I think he believed he could break the world record. I really do and on a warmer evening who knows he might have done because 9.63 is only 0.05 away but this man equaled his personal best. He fully lived up to his potential. He's just not quite as good as Bolt but he's a very very great sprinter and look at the difference in stature. Smaller, stockier, muscular and the 2004 champion under real pressure in the end. Eyes down. Tunnel vision. Desperate to get to the line but there's a man in yellow who's got there before him and that is the moment of realisation. He will go around this track and they'll allow him to go around this track. The crowd will receive him. They'll receive him well. When will we get that famous salute. These are moments to be treasured. And in the hammer we have Cosmas coming in for his fifth attempt and he had a great start to the competition 78.97. You would think that would warm him up nicely but he's had three no throws in succession and the second no throw caused about a 30 minute delay in reconstructing the hammer cage. So this is his fifth round throw. Well he avoided the cage door this time which has to be applauded and it's not a bad throw but I don't think it's going to go near his first round effort of. So we're just waiting for that score to come up. It cements his position in the 79.36. It's an improvement and he moves into the silver medal position. Well this celebration will go on for some time. It's a moment of history. Athletics history we're witnessing here. Well he's only the second man to retain Olympic 100 meter title. The great Carl Lewis perhaps the greatest athlete we've seen but maybe now we should say that Usain Bolt is. If he hadn't done it before in Berlin, in Beijing, once again in London he's triumphant. There's the greatest field assembled here and yet he runs away from them. Absolutely magnificent. A great, great athlete and he's transformed the world of sprinting. Yes, the tall men they said couldn't sprint. Well that's not true. Look at this celebration from the Jamaican fans. They've seen their two men, the first and second in their trials, prevail here and it's so good to see. And this man has, here we go, this is it.