Made it Ma - Top of the world
Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the 2012 Olympics as he anchored Jamaica's sprint relay team to a world record. The new Fab Four ran 36.84 seconds to beat their own World Record by two-tenths of a second and leave the USA team with silver. Nesta Carter and Michael Frater are the soon to be forgotten athletes who produced stunning first and second legs to set-up Yohan Blake for his leg that in turn set the stage for the living legend that is Usain Bolt. Bolt seemed to be driven forward by 80,000 people in the Olympic Stadium who were shouting themselves hoarse as one of the most memorable athletics meetings of recent times came to a close.
Earlier in the evening the Mobot had been on display again as Mo Farah capped possibly the finest individual performance by any British track athlete at a major games by doing the 'double' at 5,000 and 10,000 metres. His last lap in the 5,000 metres tonight was as dominant and controlled as his last lap in the 10,000 metres had been last Satuday.
It's been a fantastic nine days of action across all the centres and all the sports and we can feel proud as a nation that we have embraced the games with such enthusiastic passion. The doubles of Bolt and Farah in their individual events will be long remembered but for me it was the 800 metres final on Thursday night, a race that was really part of the 'undercard' to the second part of the Bolt inidvidual double that was the highlight of the events in the stadium.
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