{"id":6144,"date":"2017-08-13T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2017-08-13T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T12:46:06","slug":"greatness-of-usain-bolt-burnished-even-with-bittersweet-final-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/greatness-of-usain-bolt-burnished-even-with-bittersweet-final-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatness of Usain Bolt burnished even with bittersweet final appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Andy Bull (Guardian)<\/p>

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T<\/span><\/span>his is how it ends then,\u00a0with Usain Bolt face down on the track<\/a>, 10 metres out from the finish line. Just when you wondered whether\u00a0Bolt was going to accelerate<\/a>\u00a0counter-clockwise around the earth to reverse time, or announce that he had to return to his home planet and then fly off into the night sky, or disappear with the princess into the happily-ever-after, all the dragons dead behind him, he gave us a last reminder that he\u2019s only human after all. His hamstring went before he\u2019d made it halfway home. He slowed to a halt while the field sped past him, then stumbled into a roll. It meant he crossed the line alone, and last. His first world championship final, in the 200m in 2005, finished the very same way.<\/p>\n