At the end of the July the Olympic London starts. Yes, I look forward to this Olympis since June. Interestingly, the Olympic champion is what will determine the world class athlete. Malaysia has also sent sent 28 athletes to grab gold medals in several sports to be taken. The only chance we have is in badminton is participate by Dato' Lee Chong Wei and all Malaysian expect him to get a gold medal in badminton. Sport that interests me most in this Olympics is track and field. Jamaica have Usain Bolt defending his crown with Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell pushing him every stride. All anyone's talking about ahead of the men's 100 meters is the showdown between Olympic champion Usain Bolt and world champion Yohan Blake, a pair of Jamaican who train together.
In theory, this might be the friendlist deadly rivals in the macho, muscle-flexing history of men's sprinting, with both swearing that the most animated their animosity ever gets is probably over a game of dominoes. Bolt, the sorceror, and Blake, the apprentice, have trained alongside each other for four years under the wise eyes of coaching guru Glen Mills on the blue University of West Indies track in Kingston, Jamaica. From a relationship which began with Blake, a slightly awe-struck teenager more than three years Bolt's junior, simply soaking up the lessons from the greatest sprinter in history , the gap has narrowed to the point of invisibility. In a way, Bolt predicted this. "Watch out for Yohan Blake. He works like a beast. He's there with me step for step in training," he noted after the youngster had taken the initiative to better himself at Mills' Racers track Club in 2008. Then it was easier for Bolt to be magnanimous. Like everyone else, in their first five 100 metres races and one 200m clash, Blake could get nowhere near the phenomenon but last year everything began to change when Bolt false-started in the final World Championship 100m and then, masking his own disappointment, had to watch and applaud Blake's victory. That calamity, though, was not wounding to Bolt as losing at the recent Olympic trials to his training partner at both 100m and 200m. The latter defeat was his first by anyone at the half-lap event for five years and, increasingly, the pair are spending fewer training sessions alongside each other as the rivalry inevitably and quietly intensifes.
They meet:
- Aug 4, 12.30pm (100m heats)
- Aug 5, 7.45am (100m semi finals) 9.50pm (final)
- Aug 7, 11.50am (200m heats)
- Aug 8, 8.10pm (200m semi-final)
- Aug 9, 8.55pm (200m final)