Jamaica rules the trackpublished at 08:23 British Summer Time 18 August 2016
Usain Bolt will be attempting to follow in the footsteps of one of his team-mates as he goes for the sprint double.
Summary
Usain Bolt wins 200m gold in 19.78 seconds - his eighth gold in all
Adam Gemili fourth with same time (20.12) as Lemaitre in third
GB's Eilidh Doyle last in 400m hurdles final
Gold - Jade Jones wins 57kg taekwondo gold - GB's 22nd gold
Gold - Mills & Clark win sailing's 470 women class
Gold - Alistair Brownlee wins triathlon gold and brother Jonny the silver
Silver - GB's Heath and Schofield finish second in kayak double 200m
Bronze - GB's Ellis and Langridge beat China to win badminton medal
Boxing - Nicola Adams wins -51kg semi-final to ensure at least silver
athletics Jamaica rules the trackpublished at 08:23 British Summer Time 18 August 2016
athletics Bolt goes at 02:30 BSTpublished at 08:19
Image source, Getty ImagesThe 200m final is at 02:30 BST on Friday morning.
And since Usain Bolt spoke to BBC Radio 5 live last night the lane draw has been done.
He is in trap six - a gentler bend, a less rapid bunny to chase outside him, but a fine slot of racing the clock.
Tune in for a potential portion of history.
athletics It all depends which lane I get - Boltpublished at 08:11 British Summer Time 18 August 2016
Athletics
BBC Radio 5 LiveUsain Bolt ran his fastest time of the season to win his Olympic 200m semi-final.
Looking ahead to the Rio 2016 final, the Jamaican discussed his chances of breaking the world record with BBC Radio 5 live's Sonja McLaughlan.
“It depends on the lane I get,” said the 29-year-old, "I know I can do great if I get a top lane. If I get a lower lane it's always harder for me."
"There's no room for mistakes if I'm going to run sub 19 (seconds).
"It’s going to be really, really, really hard."
Bolt from the pastpublished at 08:06
Image source, Getty ImagesFifteen years later and we were questioning once again what sprinted among us. Or past us more accurately.
"Usain Bolt has redefined the boundaries of what was believed to be humanly possible. It sounds like hyperbole, but it's not. It's just Hyper Bolt," wrote our own Tom Fordyce after the Jamaican had lowered his own world record to a limbo-low 19.19 at the world championships in Berlin.
He has not managed to match it since.
But tonight, at the age of 29 and time running out on his career, Bolt says it's on.
'This man is surely not human'published at 08:00
Image source, getty"That's not a time, it sounds like my dad's birthday."
That was the reaction of rival Ato Bolden after Michael Johnson shattered the 200m world record with a run of 19.32 seconds at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 - taking more than a third of a second off the previous mark.
Commentator David Coleman was stunned into 14 seconds of silence after Johnson crossed the line, finally punctured with a simple gut reaction.
"This man is surely not human."