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SPORTS Saturday 5 auguSt 2017

WALK

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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt
crosses the line to win his
Men’s 100m first round heat
during the World Athletics
Championships in London
Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.
Associated Press
Farah upstages

Bolt at worlds,
and it took an

amazing race

By RAF CASERT
AP Sports Writer
LONDON (AP) — It takes
something to upstage
Usain Bolt in an Olympic
Stadium. Then again, there
is only one long-distance
runner quite like Mo Farah.
The British great came out
onto the track Friday af-
ter Bolt had absorbed the
adulation of the crowd just
by showing up and coast-
ing to victory in his opening
100-meter heat.
For Bolt it was easy. Farah
still had one of the tough-
est races of his life coming
up — an all-out assault by
the best African runners to
wear him down to sap his
finishing speed. There was
even a trip and stumble Walker takes lead with
on the final lap that could
have felled him. It didn’t. solid second round
“I am mentally strong,” said
the 34-year-old Farah, who
was born in Somalia but
moved to Britain as a child.
There was no doubt about
that after a 300-meter final
kick that still left him with Jimmy Walker reacts after missing a birdie putt
time to cross the finish line on the 16th hole during the second round of
with arms outstretched the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at
and the same amazement Firestone Country Club, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, in
in his eyes he had when Akron, Ohio.
winning his first Olympic Associated Press
gold in the same stadium
five years ago. Page 19
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