NINTH OLYMPICS GOLD FOR BOLT.

Usain Bolt won his ninth Olympic Games gold
medal as he anchored Jamaica to victory in the
men's 4x100m relay in Rio.
Bolt took over on the last leg with a narrow deficit
to Japan but soon overcame it and won by a wide-
margin after some fine support from Asafa Powell,
Yohan Blake and Nickel Ashmeade.
The sprint great has now won gold medals in the
100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the last three
Olympic Games, starting off in Beijing eight years
ago and repeating the victories at London 2012.
Victory brings down the curtain on Bolt's Olympic
career as he has already stated he will retire from
the sport at the end of the World Championships in
London next summer.
Usain Bolt earlier picked up his gold for winning the 200m
Great Britain finished in fifth place, promoted from
sixth, with Japan taking the silver and Canada the
bronze after the United States quartet was
disqualified.
Bolt said: "I'm just happy to have done what I came
here to do. I'm just proud of myself. I have to give
thanks to the guys, they really came through for me
and I'm really happy about that.
"The pressure is real, but I look at it as an
accomplishment. I enjoy pressure and I live for
these moments. For me, it's beautiful.
What more can be said about the world's greatest track and
field athlete?
"I won't celebrate now. I'm just going to go
home and stay up late tonight, just talking and
having fun.
"I'm just happy and relieved. I've done it and it's
unreal. I never knew from the start that this was
going to happen to me and now it has it's a
brilliant feeling. I told the guys that if they didn't
come through for me I'd beat them up!"
"We wanted to win to make Usain immortal and he
is immortal," Blake added. "I've told him he should
come back for 2020!"