The last blow of lightning

The Great Jamaican Runner Usayn Bolt ended his career. And upset the audience more than defeat on the hundred -meter

He left defeated, losing the crown distance at the World Cup in London Americans Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman. This is in fact. But in fact, a 30-year-old sprinter from Kingston, even lubricating the ending, gave everyone the next performance and left the track in a korolly, smiling and tearing the applause of the audience who looked like tears. The "lightning -otic" left a bunch of records to the world, which is unlikely to beat anyone soon, even pumping up doping. And “bronze” ... This is just a reminder that Usain is not an alien and not a car. Although in Berlin he was built by a lifetime monument from bolts and screws ...

It was in the Olympic arena in Germany in 2009 that he flew 100 meters in 9.58, and overcame the distance twice as long as 19.19, forcing the planet to go crazy from these incredible numbers. Personally, before that evening, I saw only two miracles of a sports nature on August 19th. In 1985, Sergey Bubka, pushing away the sixth from the garnish path of the French stadium named after Jean Buen, soared over the bar, which, barely moving, held back at an mark of 6 meters. It was a “flight in the XXI” century. And in the 94th in Monte Carlo, Alexander Popov swam a hundred-meter for 48, 21, having received the nickname the Great. Uli, by the way, was only eight years old, and he was unlikely to think that he would also applaud the whole world.

... In childhood, the “bolt”, according to his mother, was so restless and hyperactive that he had to take him to a doctor who, having examined the fidget, said that there was nothing surprising in the guy: healthy and only. This is later, after his first victories, doctors will find scoliosis from him and find out that his right leg is 1.3 cm shorter than his left, and ban them to engage in athletics. But the two -meter usane, who spoke to the warnings of doctors, will begin to fly on the path, collecting medals that professors from steep medical centers and universities will explore the special structure of his muscles, allowing to gain speed even at the moment when it is impossible according to all the laws of nature. However, dozens of experts from scientific groups who studied his super -fast cells did not fully solve its phenomenon. Only in one doctors came together unanimously:

The bolt with unique talent was ahead of the time of thirty years. Like Bob Bimon, flying at 8.90 in Mexico City 68 ...

... reggae-bealed actually fell on everyone with his records, like snow on his head. If most athletes go to their achievements through thorns, then the bolt, whistling on May 31, 2008, a hundred meters in 9.72, since then he has only improved the result and has not inferior to anyone. In Beijing, he turned into the first person in history, which set world records at two distances at the same Olympics, and the first person who won the distance of 100 and 200 meters at the same games from the time of Karl Lewis. In London-2012 and Rio-2016, Bolt easily repeated his exploits, adding victories in the 4x100 relay to them. For almost nine years he competed only with himself and numbers. The rivalry did not work with colleagues in the workshop. Only at the championship of the planet in TEGU did he allow himself to “get ahead” of the teammate Johan Blake, having earned disqualification because of Falstart (many are still sure that he did it on purpose) ...

I was lucky to watch the Usain at the 2013 World Championship in Moscow. And this can not be compared with nothing. On the final day, clouds thickened in Luzhniki, and charged with a powerful rain.

Under the whipping streams of water, the bolt flashed in 9.77, and as soon as it finished, the rain stopped and the sun looked out. It still sometimes seems to me that they made a movie, it looked so fantastic.

The bolt ran to hug mom, and unfamiliar citizens hugged in the stands, repeating the following: "I saw him ...".

He wanted to see him again and again. If Michael Schumacher killed many interests in the “Formula 1” with his victories in the “Formula 1”, then the bolt with his every achievement only fired even more the interest of the public, which worried about him and longed for the next achievements. Although what about people from his records? Just in the age of digital technology and various cloning, such amazing and at the same time natural things help to believe. What? In one's own strength and capabilities. Sergey Bubka once said about this very well: “When I acted myself, I could not appreciate what was happening from the outside. Now I understand that for the audience a record jump is even more necessary than for the athlete himself. ”

... Cynics will say that the 8-fold Olympic champion was simply not successfully caught in doping, since it is unrealistic to give out amazing imagination as an amazing imagination of a second as orderly, eating for breakfast. I will not argue with skeptics. I will express my opinion. Usain won because he never hung up on the result as such. If he was “programmed” for something, then only for the holiday. See: before every run he arranged a mini-show. He twisted, flirted, showed pantomims and had fun with the heart. For him, it was more important than future triumphs. “I want to go out on the path as soon as possible, because I have prepared for the audience ... a new dance! I just burst out with impatience! " - These are the words of the bolt in front of one of the finals. And this internal “doping” of happiness, which fell into the blood of Usain thanks to the genes, was the “forbidden” substance that left the rivals behind the start at the start.

But it all ends someday. There are no eternal engines.

“My body repeats to me that it is time to hang Shipovki on a nail,” the Bolt recently admitted, which was tortured by injuries.

In addition, fighting exclusively with a shadow is difficult psychologically. And Tyson Gay, Assafa Powell, Christoph Lemeter and de Grass wanted, but could not.

And to London, Usain went to a farewell tour. For the 12th gold of world forums. So it was written in the script. But the Americans launched their legs into it: 35-year-old old acquaintance Justin Gatlin and young Christian Coleman, who prevented the lightning of the lightning of the lightning and leave in Hollywood. However, the performance with an unplanned outcome, oddly enough, came out even more touching. Since the monastery of Gatlin (the audience did not forgive him for past doping sins) after 9.92 leaned in front of the bolt, and the great champion hugged him and congratulated him with the heart.

And all the applause still went to the native of Trelaloni, who was 60 thousand spectators for half an hour (!) Welled to stand and begged to linger at least for the season. The stadium literally drowned in tears, but a smiling sprinter, who stretched out onions in the famous pose and sent air kisses to fans, did not change his decisions. “Justin is a good guy and a worthy opponent, but I just did not succeed. I am very sorry, but this is life, ”the hero of the evening will tell reporters.

Thank you, Usain St. Leo Bolt. It was a glorious hunt.