The GOAT awards - Who will rewrite the record books this year?

That’s the Greatest Of All Time. Whether it be Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt monopolising another Olympic Games, Novak Djokovic seeking a Grand Slam or Katie Taylor punching her way into legend, the sporting record books look set for another complete rewrite in 2016...

The GOAT awards - Who will rewrite the record books this year?
Wed, 06 Jan, 2016 - 00:00
Ian Chadband

Usain Bolt - Third straight Olympic sprint double?

If the great Jamaican can achieve a third successive 100m/200m sprint double - actually, make that a third straight sprint treble, if you throw in the relay - it would surely be the greatest athletics feat in Olympic annals.

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