Usain Bolt Wins Gold in 200M Despite Missing World Record

No chest-pumping before the finish of this race. Usain Bolt was clear of the field, by a good body length, down the stretch of the 200-m final at the Olympic Stadium in Rio on Thursday night. His face curled with exertion. Bolt talked all week about how badly he wanted to break his own world record time, 19:19, in the 200, which he set at the world championships in Berlin in 2009. He said he felt as if his soon-to-be-30-year-old body could accomplish that ambitious goal.