Cricket Country Staff
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Written by Cricket Country Staff
Published: Aug 19, 2016, 03:12 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 19, 2016, 03:12 PM (IST)
The Caribbean athlete Usain Bolt once again made headlines by winning another gold medal at Rio Olympics 2016. This time, he did it in the men’s 200m on Thursday by crossing the line in just 19.78 seconds.
Bolt beat Canada’s Andre De Grasse by 0.24 seconds. This is yet another gold medal Bolt has won in this Olympics and this one came just four days after he achieved a hat-trick of gold medals at Olympics in the 100m category. ALSO READ: Virender Sehwag heaps praise on Usian Bolt; advices him to compete in F1 race without a car
On this occasion, star cricketers from the Caribbean like Darren Sammy, along with other international cricketers, took to Twitter and Instagram and expressed their joy over Bolt’s another gold medal win at Olympics. Also, Bolt has expressed his wish to be ranked alongside Pele and Muhammad Ali in sport’s pantheon of greats after winning his third straight Olympic 200m title here.
Here are some of the reactions from cricket fraternity from social zone.
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No words to describe @usainbolt … This is incredible. Great man — Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) August 19, 2016
How good are you!!! @usainbolt reasonable claim to fame…I am the fastest man on the planet 3 times over@Rio2016_en
— Matthew Hayden AM (@HaydosTweets) August 19, 2016
@usainbolt Greatest athlete the world has ever seen.@henrygayle please make sure he’s at ur place wen we come there next — Angelo Mathews (@Angelo69Mathews) August 19, 2016
Simply put,there will never be another @usainbolt #thechosenone
— Herschelle Gibbs (@hershybru) August 19, 2016
If @usainbolt is racing can anyone else ever win? The answer is noooooooooo! — Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) August 19, 2016
First the good news. @usainbolt wins 200m gold to complete an unprecedented sprint double at 3 Olympics. Greatest ever! #Rio2016
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) August 19, 2016
USAIN BOLT you Beauty.. Have we just witnessed History.. #differentleague #whattaman — Kartik Murali (@kartikmurali) August 19, 2016
Usain Bolt
— Aaron Finch (@AaronFinch5) August 19, 2016
The day we played cricket n sprinted.Backing the fastest man @usainbolt when he tears the track in 200m tom pic.twitter.com/hE5pFatlS1 — yuvraj singh (@YUVSTRONG12) August 18, 2016
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