Bolt back to training today
MOSCOW, Russia — After taking a well-earned day off on Monday, after winning his second IAAF World Championships 100-metre gold medal on Sunday, double world record holder Usain Bolt will continue his preparation to defend his 200-metre title today.
Bolt, the winner of the events at the two previous World Championships in Berlin, Germany, in 2009, and Daegu, South, Korea, in 2011, is seeking to create even more history by becoming the first man to win three straight 200m titles.
Currently, he is tied with American Calvin Smith, who won back-to-back titles in 1983 and 1987, as the only men to repeat as champions.
Dennis Gordon, the Jamaican media liaison officer, told the Jamaica Observer yesterday that Bolt was scheduled to get back on the track as he prepares for the start of the 200m on Friday morning.
Bolt ran a season’s best 9.77 seconds to win the 100m in steady rain inside the Luzhniki Stadium, beating American Justin Gatlin, while Jamaica’s Nesta Carter took the bronze for his first major outdoor individual medal after winning silver in the IAAF World Indoors in Turkey last year.
Bolt told journalists after Sunday’s race that his legs had felt sore after the semi-finals and as a result he had not pressed too hard in the final, just doing enough to win and then get ready for the 200m.