Bolt Blazes Again In Season-Ending 100 Meters In Belgium

Unless you’ll soon be in Jamaica, Usain Bolt will be out of the sporting spotlight until next season following his blazing, season-ending race Friday night in Brussels, Belgium.

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Competing in what was billed as the fastest 100-meter field ever assembled, Bolt rallied in the final 20 meters to defeat countryman Asafa Powell with a winning time of 9.77.

While the effort was .08 seconds slower than then 9.69 world mark Bolt set in the Beijing Olympics, the runner known as “Lightning Bolt” ran into a 1.3-meter per-second headwind and in 59-degree temperatures.

Powell finished second in 9.83, with Nesha Carter completed a Jamaican in third place at 10.07. American Tyson Gay, who was scheduled to compete, withdrew because of nagging leg injury.

Entering the meet, Bolt, Powell and Gay had combined run the top-10 fastest 100 meters in history.

A sellout crowd of 47,000 attended the meet at the King Baudouin Stadium.

Bolt, who won the 100 and 200 meters and was part of the 4×100 victorious relay in Beijing, all in world records, will soon return to Jamaica where huge post-Olympic celebrations are expected.