London: 100 and 200 metres in successive Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has created Olympic history by becoming the first man to win the games.
Bolt ran the 200 metres in 19.32 seconds to finish ahead of fellow countrymen Yohan Blake, like he did in the 100 metres, and Wallace Weir at the London Games to become the first man to win the two sprint titles in back-to-back Olympics, reports Xinhua.
Surely nobody can question his status as the greatest sprinter in history.
"It's what I came here to do. I'm now a legend," Bolt said.
Bolt had complained of slipping on the blocks as he won the 100 metres, but he got off to a flying start in 200 metres, springing out of the blocks and running an excellent bend.
To his credit, Blake, who ran 19.44 seconds, was still in contention as they came off the bend and for a moment it looked as if he could close. But Bolt is Bolt and he maintained a lead of just over a metre which he stretched out in the closing strides, looking across to Blake as if to say "I'm still number one".
Blake finished 0.4 second ahead of Weir to highlight that at almost any other time he would be a great champion and maybe one day he will be, but for the moment, Bolt is the king of sprinting.
Earlier in a magnificent night, Kenya's Lekuta Rudisha set the first new world record of the London Games when he won the 800 metres in one minute 40.91 seconds.
Rudisha went into the race after having run five of the 10 fastest times in history and made a statement of intent right from the start, running a split time of 49.28 to open up a lead that he never looked like relinquishing.
The Kenyan powered out a five-metre lead as the field strung out around the final bend as his rivals were quite unable to live with the pace.
