Bolt return from injury upstaged by 28-year WR being broken

Usain Bolt will aim to become the first person to win the 100m and 200m double at three consecutive Games when he will feature in the Rio Olympics.

“Not making the Olympic team I was really just determined to come out here and show what I really could have done in Rio”, she said.

Panama’s Edward Alonso was second in 20.04 with Briton Adam Gemili third in 20.07.

Bolt won gold in both the 100m and 200m at the London and Beijing Olympics, and will defend both titles in Rio next month.

Bolt appeared satisfied rather than elated after a victory that has established him fifth in the 2016 world lists behind the 19.74sec run by former world and Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt at the US Olympic trials, and the 19.75 also run at the US trials by world silver medallist Justin Gatlin.

“I thought it wasn’t flawless”, said Bolt after the Diamond League meet. I feel I’m in better shape than I was a year ago.

“I am feeling good and injury free”.

The best British performance of the night came from Laura Muir, who broke Kelly Holmes’ national 1500m record with a hugely impressive run.

Nothing could top Kendra Harrison’s performance though, as the American broke the 100m hurdles world record with a scintillating 12.20 (+0.3) performance.

And as the Russian doping scandal threatens to overshadow the competition, the Jamaican is ready to deliver a good news story for track and field.

Usain Bolt is back in business.

But what has not altered is Bolt’s supremacy on this track, and in his sport. As he hit the straight and the crowd expected the sort of surge that brought him three Olympic golds on the same track four years ago, it didn’t happen.

“If I do that I have a chance to take a break from the 100 hurdles until world championships and try to get another record in the 400 hurdles”, said Harrison.

“He’s gotta take this opportunity and establish himself as someone who should be looked at every time he runs a race”, Canada’s Donovan Bailey, who won the 100 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, told CBC Sports this week.

Muir has always been knocking on the door of Dame Kelly Holmes’ 1500m mark – which had stood at 3:57:90 – but the 23-year-old promptly burst through it with a truly impressive display of front-running.

“As I always say I never focus on any one individual. It’s great to have”.

Holmes swiftly tweeted: “Amazing run – knew you could do it, you’ve been running so well this year”. It was also a frustrating night for Chris O’Hare, whose final pre-Olympic race was hindered by a knee injury as he trundled in last. She set the American record of 12.24 on May 28 at the Nike Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.

Further back there was a season’s best of 1.92m for Morgan Lake in seventh.

The world’s fastest man is bidding for an unprecedented “triple triple” of gold medals in Brazil, hoping to become the first athlete to win the 100- and 200-meter as well as the 4×100-meter relay title at three consecutive Games.