BOLT SIZZLES TO A SEASON BEST 9.98 TO WIN IN POLAND

Photo: Usain Bolt (Getty Images)

Track and Field legend and Triple World Record holder Usain Bolt ran a season’s best 9.98 seconds to win a 100m race at the 5th Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Warsaw, Poland yesterday.

Bolt who was running his second individual 100m race of the season, got off to a decent start and caught the fast starting American Trell Kimmons and went on to win easily with fellow Jamaican Sheldon Mitchell taking second in 10.33 seconds.

The six-time Olympic champion looked good for most of his race running on a on a makeshift straight track inside a soccer stadium, to defeat the 8 man field. Bolts came off a win earlier at the Copacabana beach, in Rio Brazil where won in 10.06s.

Bolt opened his season when he anchored the Jamaican 4x100m team to the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

Bolt got a late start to his season due to a foot injury he announced in late March. He told BBC Sport magazine he was tempted to not compete at all this year, adding that he required crutches for the first time in his life after the surgery.

“Constant pain; constant pain,” before the surgery, Bolt told Sport. “I trained through it for a couple of weeks, and it would not go away. I went to see my doctor, and he said: ‘You can treat it, and it’s gonna stop. But then it will come back, so it makes sense to do a surgery.’ So we had to do a surgery.”

Bolt will hit the track again in Zurich at the IAAF diamond league on the 28th of August 28, 2014.

This year’s meeting will take place on a newly-laid track at the Letzigrund Stadium.

Bolt told reporters that he anticipates, participating in Zurich this year.

“I always look forward to running in Zurich,” said the six-time Olympic champion. “The event is always extremely well organised. The atmosphere at Letzigrund Stadium is unique, and the crowd is world-class.”

This will be Bolt’s seventh appearance in Zurich. He finished second in the under-23 200m on his debut in 2006 and then finished second again in the main 200m one year later. In 2008 and 2009 he moved down to the 100m, winning on both occasions, and then in 2012 he set a meeting record of 19.66 in the 200m. He notched up another 100m victory in Zurich last year, winning in 9.90s.