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SPORTS Monday 14 august 2017

JUSTIN

TIME

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt makes
his trademark gesture
during a lap of honor at the
end of the World Athletics
Championships in London
Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017.
Associated Press
Bolt gets the
cheers, and

Americans

get the medals
at worlds

By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
LONDON (AP) — Usain Bolt
took a last leisurely stroll
around the track, placed
his hands over his heart
and then pointed toward
the stands, where barely a
soul had left.
The running had been over
for nearly 30 minutes. As al-
ways, though, Bolt had a
way of making everybody
stay. The world champion-
ships came to a melan-
choly close Sunday with an
on-track tribute to the man
who made the sport fun
again.
There were 11 gold med-
als at stake on a frenetic
final day in London, and
yet it was the sight of the
hobbled champion walk-
ing slowly around the track
— stopping to kneel at the
starting lines for the 100-
and 200-meter races he Thomas wins his first major at the PGA
dominated for a decade
— that made for the eve- Justin Thomas poses with the Wanamaker Trophy
ning’s best theatre. after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament
“I think I almost cried,” at the Quail Hollow Club Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, in
Bolt said. “I was just saying
goodbye. That was it. Say- Charlotte, N.C.
ing goodbye to my events. Associated Press
Saying goodbye to every- Page 19
thing.”
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