So much for the suggestion Usain Bolt is ‘past it’, then. The Jamaican responded to his 100 metres defeat by Justin Gatlin in Rome last week by setting a stadium record and dominating the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo last night.
Bolt ran 19.79 seconds at the Bislett Stadium, breaking Frankie Fredericks’ 17-year-old record by three hundredths of a second and posting the fastest time in the world this year.
He drove around the track in a racing car before last night’s competition and performed a DJ set at an after-party, where he tweeted: 'You know what time it is...Dj Bolt'.
Scroll down for video Still go it: Usain Bolt blasted away from the field to win in a time of 19.79, a meeting record Reaching for the line: Bolt will be happy to make up for his defeat at the hands of Justin Gatlin last time outHe said he wanted Fredericks' record before his race and he duly claimed it despite the chilly, damp conditions and a poor start, accelerating off the bend from lane six to leave Norway’s Jaysuma Saidy Noure and Great Britain’s James Ellington in his wake.
'That would have been a 19.5-second run in better weather,' said Bolt.
'I'm not worried about losing one race. When it comes to the championships, I show up every year and get it done. My confidence is always high.
'I’m going to show the world I’m the No 1 and I’m the legend that I am.'
The Bolt show now moves to Jamaica’s National Senior Trials in Kingston next week, where the 26-year-old must finish in the top three to guarantee his place in the 100m at the World Championships in August.
Speedster: Bolt was introduced to the crowd in a Formula E car before the meeting got underway
Stretching himself: He did a couple of laps of the track, a bit further than he normally runs
Super cool: Would any other sportsman get away with something like this? Multi-talented: Usain Bolt at the after party in Oslo giving it a go as a DJ
Getting to pick the tunes: No less attention off the track
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Elsewhere on Thursday night, Great Britain celebrated its first Diamond League victories of the season as Tiffany Porter won the 100m hurdles in 12.76sec and Shara Proctor took the long jump title with her first-round effort of 6.89m. Anyika Onuora, a 200m specialist, also won the 400m national event in 52.11secs on her debut at the distance.
Perri Shakes-Drayton came second in the 400m hurdles, running 54.03sec behind Olympic bronze medallist Zuzana Hejnova - nearly a two-second improvement on her disappointing seventh-place finish in Eugene two weeks ago. Shakes-Drayton, 24, vowed to beat the Czech athlete next time out, declaring she was 'coming good' in time for Moscow.
The ‘Three Musketeers’ of British middle-distance running – Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram – were also reunited in the stadium in which they broke seven world records between them.
The Dream Mile has traditionally been the marquee event at Bislett and all three athletes claimed world records over the distance in Oslo: Coe in 1979, Ovett a year later and Cram in 1985 with three minutes 46.32sec. Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman's winning time last night, incidentally, was 3min 50.53sec.
Giant Leap: Britain's Shara Proctor won the long jump with her first round effort of 6.89 metres World beater: Czech Republic's Zuzana Hejnova beat Perri Shakes-Drayton in the 400m hurdlesPS Bolt has taken a turn on the decks before, after last year's Olympics. Judge for yourself how good he was...
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