Bolt unconvincing in 200m win at NY
AFP
AFP, NEW YORK: Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt has work to do after clocking an unconvincing 20.29sec to win the 200m at the New York Diamond League meeting on Saturday.
Even with a headwind of 2.8 meters per second, Bolt said he was baffled by a performance that included the worst curve ever in my entire career, although he said it was too soon to say the alarm bells are sounding for the World Championships in Beijing in August.
Bolt holds the 100m world record of 9.58sec and the 200m world record of 19.19, both set in 2009.
He won 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics but last year was limited by foot and hamstring injuries.
In other races, Tyson Gay, won the mens 100m in 10.12sec in a brisk headwind of 1.7 meters per second.
World record-holder David Rudisha returned from an early-season injury scare to canter to victory in the 800 in 1:43.59.
Francena McCorory will go into the US trials buoyed by a world-leading performance in the 400m, which she won in 49.86sec.
The indoor world champion improved on the prior season-best of 49.95 set by compatriot Sanya Richards-Ross in Kingston on May 9.
Rudisha, who set the world record of 1:40.91 in winning Olympic gold in London, had withdrawn from the meeting in Birmingham, England, last week after pulling up in a race in Ostrava in late May.
The Kenyan cruised to victory ahead of American Boris Berian (1:43.84) and said he was pleased to have achieved his target time of 1:43.
