Blake steals Bolt thunder with stunning 100m victory

Usain Bolt was upstaged by training partner Yohan Blake at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne last night.

The young pretender became the joint second-fastest man in history as he won the 100 metres in 9.69 seconds shortly before Bolt clocked 19.58secs over 200m.

Only Bolt, a self-proclaimed ‘living legend’ after retaining his Olympic titles in London, has run quicker than Blake’s new personal best.

But Bolt may be turning his focus elsewhere after claiming he wants to try his hand at the long jump before the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Bolt, the 100m, 200m and 4x100m sprint relay winner in London, moved to end speculation that he may retire before Rio, but then claimed he might be competing in some different events in four years’ time.

“It’s just about making different goals, there’s a lot of things I can do in the sport,” Bolt said.

“My coach wants me to do 400 metres, I want to try long jump.

“I could always try to aim for the records again, so there’s different things but after the season we’ll decide what we want to do and work on that next season.”

If Bolt were to switch to long jump, he would be following the example of American sprinter Carl Lewis, winner of back-to-back Olympic 100m titles in 1984 and 1988, who was also a four-time gold winner in the long jump in a run spanning from 1984 to 1996.

Bolt is keen to end speculation that he may retire before the Rio Games.

“Yes, definitely I will be there (in Rio), as long as I’m fit and I’m ready,” he said.