RIO DE JANEIRO — The greats prevailed on Thursday at the Olympic Stadium as defending champions remained golden and future stars notched gold medals.
The skies opened up with rain less than 25 minutes before Usain Bolt’s final individual race at the Olympics. Yet the world’s fastest man remained unfazed and won the men’s 200 meters in a season’s best of 19.78 seconds for an unprecedented third consecutive gold in the event.
Bolt came off the turn with the lead and powered through the final straightaway for the win but looked up to the sky with a small grin as he did not break his own world record of 19.