RIO DE JANEIRO: Usain Bolt won his second gold medal of the Rio Olympics, brushing aside all-comers again in his favourite 200m sprint but blamed his “ageing” body for missing his own world record.
The Jamaican triumphed as Britain’s Brownlee brothers dominated in triathlon to keep their country ahead of China in the medals race.
Teenager Kimia Alizadeh became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal in taekwondo. The 29-year Bolt covered 200m in 19.78sec to easily beat Canadian Andre de Grasse and France’s Christophe Lemaitre.
Before the race Bolt had said he would go for his world record of 19.19sec and his winning time was sluggish by the Jamaican’s exacting standards.
