Usain Bolt made history August 9 when the 25-year-old Jamaican successfully defended his Olympic 200m crown to claim an unprecedented second successive sprint double. Bolt, who retained his 100m title on Saturday, crossed the line in 19.32sec to win in front of a delirious sell-out 80,000 crowd at the Olympic Stadium. This meant he bettered the record of US track legend Carl Lewis, who won 3 golds and a silver in the sprints at the 1984 and 1988 Games. It was also the first time two individual track titles were successfully defended at successive Games since Finland’s Lasse Viren won the 5000m and 10,000m in the Munich and Montreal Games in 1972 and 1976.
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