VIDEO: Usain Bolt COLLAPSES in his farewell race. Injury, tears ruin final hurrah!

Bolt finishes his career with a staggering 14 career medals in the world championships, 11 of them gold, and with eight Olympic gold medals

By: Ankit Banerjee |
August 13, 2017 11:07 am

Not often do you see big, world athletes cry in pain of losing. But it can happen to the best as well. That is exactly what the world witnessed at the IAAF World Championships in London on Saturday. The loudest cheer was reserved for the last race of the world’s fastest man on planet till date, Usain Bolt. The event was Usain Bolt’s favored 4×100-meter men’s relay, where Jamaica was starting as outright favourites. They had star runners in their lineups like Yohan Blake, Omar McLeod and Julian Forte.

Due to a lapse from Jamaica, the dark horse Brits went on to win the title.

Usain Bolt, having run a whopping 23 championship races since 2008, this was only the fourth time Bolt failed to win, the first time due to injury, that goes on to show the fitness levels he maintained for this period. Previously, he didn’t win because of a false start, a disqualification after the fact due to a teammate’s failed doping test, and last Saturday, because of an uncharacteristic performance – Bolt came in third in the 100-meter final.

. @NethaneelMB brings the baton home to ensure golden ending for Great Britain on Day 9 of #IAAFworlds

Report: https://t.co/tiGDnOylQE pic.twitter.com/tot2iItuL5

— IAAF (@iaaforg) August 12, 2017

Bolt is not someone the world is used to see losing, but age gets to even the best of them.

The noise in the London Stadium went through the roof.@BritAthletics take #IAAFworlds 4x100m in front of ecstatic home crowd. pic.twitter.com/XjrPnWLVNZ

— IAAF (@iaaforg) August 12, 2017

Bolt finishes his career with a staggering 14 career medals in the world championships, 11 of them gold, and with eight Olympic gold medals. These are achievements even a continent put together in Olympics fails to achieve, that shows the stature of the Jamaican.

But there was no final flourish for a man who has been not only one of global sport’s great athletes, but one of its great entertainers as well.

I’ve been a fan of this legend since ages and now am a crying mess seeing him in tears
YOU ARE A LEGEND, NO MATTER WHAT#UsainBolt #bolt pic.twitter.com/hJA4XEgyvK

— Lowie (@_Yifantasy_) August 12, 2017