“He knows that I’m going to come with my A and he’s going to come with his A game,” Gatlin said. The 2004 Olympic champion already beat the Jamaican at the Diamond League meet in Rome this spring, Bolt’s only competitive flaw this season. The scandals leave Justin Gatlin as Bolt’s toughest competitor in the worlds’ premier event. sprint spots for Moscow after failing an out-of-competition doping test.Īlmost at the same time, it was announced that former world-record holder Asafa Powell tested positive for the stimulant oxilofrone at the Jamaican national championships in June. Yet even though the American has the two top times over the 100 this year, Gay’s year, and perhaps his career, came crashing down when he relinquished his U.S. In Blake’s absence, a revitalized Tyson Gay was to challenge hard. But the sprinter who won the world title in Daegu, South Korea, two years ago after Bolt false-started is out with a hamstring injury. This year was supposed to give him another shot.
Only a year ago, Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake was challenging Bolt for Olympic supremacy in London. “Right now, my only focus is winning three gold medals,” Bolt said in an email exchange with The Associated Press. And with seven world championship medals already, a triple of any color would also move him alongside American great Carl Lewis as the most decorated man in the event’s history with 10 overall. When he was growing up in Eindhoven, Danjuma dreamed of being Cristiano Ronaldo and to Dalot he would have appeared every bit as terrifying as the great Portuguese in his pomp.Bolt won three golds at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, three at the London Games and three more at the 2009 worlds in Berlin. His tormentor-in-chief was Arnaut Danjuma, who was born in Nigeria, learnt his football in Holland and had come to Villarreal from Bournemouth. Dalot, signed by Jose Mourinho, gave another indication that at this level he is horribly out of his depth. Telles scored his first goal for Manchester United and looked a sight more effective than Sancho going forward down the left. Unai Emery would not have required much analysis to have targeted the two full-backs, Alex Telles and Diogo Dalot, men who you suspect would not be at Old Trafford had not the pandemic squeezed all the money out of European football.
Solskjaer was without three of his regular back-four. They went into the dressing room at the interval lucky not to be three down.Įven before kick-off, the weaknesses were obvious. In Jadon Sancho and Mason Greenwood they had two of the brightest young talents in the English game. They had two World Cup winners, the man whom Sir Alex Ferguson rates above Messi as the greatest footballer of his generation. The whistle went and Ronaldo, celebrating a record 178th Champions League appearance, marched off with the headlines. Then he threw off his shirt and drank in the applause as if it had all been pre-planned. When Jesse Lingard laid the ball off in the Villarreal area, Ronaldo pounced and drove his shot into the net beneath the Stretford End off the bottom of Geronimo Rulli’s gloves. As the watching Usain Bolt proved time and again over 100 metres, it is not how you start, it is how you finish.Īs the anonymous star of a team that had been outplayed for much of the night, Cristiano Ronaldo waited until the last possible moment before making his mark. Then, at the death, his supreme ability to see a chance fractionally before anyone else, a talent he had first shown at Old Trafford nearly two decades ago, rode to Manchester United’s rescue. There was an early header over the bar where you marvelled at the spring in those 36-year-old legs but, generally, he was a spectator. OLD TRAFFORD - After Lionel Messi’s sublime finish against Manchester City at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday night, some wondered how Cristiano Ronaldo might respond.
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