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London Olympics 2012 are near and these few final championships are opportunity for the great athletes to take psychological advantage over other.
Usain Bolt entered European track for the same purpose to take some psychological advantage before the beginning of London Olympics 2012.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has overcome a poor start to comfortably win the 100m at a meet in the Czech Republic town of Ostrava. In this European track season opener on Friday, Usain Bolt clocked 10.04sec in the 100m which he described "very bad day at the starting blocks".
The double Olympic sprint gold medalist Usain Boltfrom the 2008 Beijing Games overcame a dreadful start at the second time of asking and into a -0.8m/s headwind and grimaced his way from the 50m mark, the long-legged Jamaican opening up a lead on his rivals to the line.
Veteran Kim Collins of St Kitts and St Nevis came second in 10.19sec with American Darivs Patton third in 10.22.
"I don't really know what went on," said Bolt, who added that he hadn't run as badly as this one since an outing in Canada back in 2009.
The Jamaican revolutionised sprinting, and indeed athletics, four years ago in Beijing, setting world records when winning the 100 and 200m titles, and also starring in a record-breaking Jamaican quartet in the 4x100m relay.
The 25-year-old Jamaican left the Chinese capital as one of the most recognisable figures in world sport, unbelievably going on to beat both his individual sprint marks with new times (9.58 and 19.19sec) in the Berlin worlds in 2009.
He lost his world 100m title in Daegu, South Korea, last July to compatriot Yohann Blake after sensationally false starting in the final.
But with track and field set to again take centre stage at this summer's London Olympics, the world's largest sporting event, Bolt may not have delighted fans, sponsors and meet organisers alike with his performance here but as he said, a win is a win.
Briton Dwain Chambers, who has served a drugs ban and is now cleared to race in the Olympics after the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) overturned a British Olympic Association bylaw that banned doping cheats for life, recorded 10.28sec, missing the Olympic qualification time of 10.18.
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The double Olympic sprint gold medalist Usain Boltfrom the 2008 Beijing Games overcame a dreadful start at the second time of asking and into a -0.8m/s headwind and grimaced his way from the 50m mark, the long-legged Jamaican opening up a lead on his rivals to the line.
Veteran Kim Collins of St Kitts and St Nevis came second in 10.19sec with American Darivs Patton third in 10.22.
"I don't really know what went on," said Bolt, who added that he hadn't run as badly as this one since an outing in Canada back in 2009.
The Jamaican revolutionised sprinting, and indeed athletics, four years ago in Beijing, setting world records when winning the 100 and 200m titles, and also starring in a record-breaking Jamaican quartet in the 4x100m relay.
The 25-year-old Jamaican left the Chinese capital as one of the most recognisable figures in world sport, unbelievably going on to beat both his individual sprint marks with new times (9.58 and 19.19sec) in the Berlin worlds in 2009.
He lost his world 100m title in Daegu, South Korea, last July to compatriot Yohann Blake after sensationally false starting in the final.
But with track and field set to again take centre stage at this summer's London Olympics, the world's largest sporting event, Bolt may not have delighted fans, sponsors and meet organisers alike with his performance here but as he said, a win is a win.
Briton Dwain Chambers, who has served a drugs ban and is now cleared to race in the Olympics after the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) overturned a British Olympic Association bylaw that banned doping cheats for life, recorded 10.28sec, missing the Olympic qualification time of 10.18.
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