Usain Bolt rarely complains about going too fast.After the rushed road to Sunday night's 100-meter final, he had to make an exception.Faced with a turnaround time of barely over an hour between the semifinal and final, Bolt had trouble gearing up to be at his best for the marquee event of the Olympics.
He won his record-setting third straight gold medal , but his post-race comments were tinged with slams about the scheduling."I don't know who decided that," Bolt said. "It was really stupid. So, that's why the race was slow. There's no way you can run and go back around and run fast times again."
It was a decision made with broadcasters in mind more than runners. In the recent past, 100-meter sprinters have been given more than two hours between semifinals and finals.
"It's the first time I've had to jog to the warmup area to get ready for the final," Bolt said.
He said after the semifinal, he felt great. I was like 'Yo, I probably could run a fast time,'" he said. For him, "fast" often equates to something in the world-record range of 9.58 seconds. And "slow" would qualify as the 9.81-second time he ran to win Sunday's gold medal.