Sydney, June 30(ANI): Olympic champion Usain Bolt got beaten by his world champion and his training partner Yohan Blake, who completed the race in a time of 9.75 seconds, at the Jamaican Olympic trials on Friday.
Bolt took 0.11 seconds more than Blake's time to clinch the second spot at the Olympic trials.
The result will possibly change the notion that Bolt will saunter to the Olympic title in London, just as he did in Beijing.
"Nine-point-seven-five - it's awesome. I won the world championship, so I've got that," The Herald Sun quoted Blake, as saying.
"Now, I'm the national champion for Jamaica, so I've got that. And now, I go into the Olympics like this," he added.
Blake is the reigning world champion but Bolt didn't run that night in South Korea after being disqualified for a false start, and was their first rematch in a real race since then.
Bolt was considered the favourite, not only because of his world record of 9.58 seconds, but because Blake, his training partner had never run below 9.84 in his life.
But now Blake's 9.75 seconds goes down as the best time this year and also breaks the four-year-old National Stadium record, both marks were 9.76, and both are held by Bolt.
Asafa Powell will join them at the Olympics, after finishing third in 9.88. (ANI)
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