I’m not worried, insists Usain Bolt as he loses out to Yohan Blake again

 
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Usain Bolt was beaten by training partner Yohan Blake for the second time in 48 hours at the Jamaican Olympic trials.

Blake had upstaged the world’s fastest man on Friday night in the 100m after Bolt suffered a dire start and he again came out on top in last night’s 200m in Jamaica.

Bolt crossed the line just 0.03 seconds behind Blake’s winning time of 19.80sec but the margin of the victory was unimportant.

Bolt had not lost a 200m race for almost five years and appeared to struggle under pressure, grimacing as he entered the home straight trying to claw back Blake’s advantage.

Despite the defeat, the defending Olympic champion in the two sprint distances insisted there was no cause for concern.

He said: “I’ll have to figure out what I did wrong and work on it [but] I can never be discouraged. I’m never worried until my coach gets worried and my coach isn’t worried so I’m okay.”

Blake, who is the quickest man over the 200m and 100m this year — his 9.75sec for the 100m made him the fourth quickest of all time — has downplayed the significance of his wins at the trials.

“It leaves me to get back into training,” he said. “It’s not over. I still have the Olympics to go.”

In the US trials, Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix finished joint third in the 100m in 11.07sec and will run off for the right to compete at the London Games.

With no formal policy on how to deal with such a situation, it had been unclear whether the issue would be decided by a race or the toss of a coin but the pair will meet again in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Meanwhile, UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee has hinted that Dwain Chambers will earn Olympic selection when the squad is officially announced tomorrow.

When asked if Chambers would be picked for the Games following the European Championships in Helsinki, Van Commenee said: “It’s a likely outcome.”

Of his decision not to select Chambers, who had failed to achieve the Olympic A standard in the 100m this year, in the individual event in Finland, Van Commenee said: “I told him not to compete here because he won the trials and the fourth-best athlete in Britain can’t be better than the winner of the trials, so it’s common sense.”

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