Have you ever seen a champion bow to the runner-up after a race?
After the men's 100m final at the 2017 London Athletics World Championships, Gatlin's kneeling to Bolt was full of heroic tribute and made countless people cry.
Gatling won the gold again after 12 years, he completed the biggest dream of his life, defeating Bolt, the god of 100 meters in the world, who was 4 years younger than himself, for the first time in the World Series, breaking the curse of his career.
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Gatlin beat all the masters with a time of 9.85 seconds to break the world record holder Green and win the 100 meters at the Athens Olympic Games
Just when everyone thought that the world was about to enter the Gatlin era, he was banned for 4 years for doping.
Four years, how precious is it for an athlete?
In Gatlin's time from 24 to 28 years old, the world of athletics also underwent earth-shaking changes.
In the men's 100m final of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Usain Bolt broke the world record by looking back at the moon, thus opening more than ten years of bolt era, and Bolt's birth also made him the nemesis of Justin Gatlin's life.
The 2012 London Olympics was a big showdown of human speed, and the 30-year-old Gatlin used tenacious perseverance to win the bronze medal with a good time of 9.79 seconds after Bolt's 9.63 seconds and Blake's 9.75 seconds.
After Blake was crushed by injuries, Bolt became Gatlin's only target, and they staged one peak showdown after another, but the script was extremely similar.
The gun starts to lead bolt counter-overtaking again meets the gun to start running, Gatlin leads Bolt in the final overtaking, it is simply murderous, Gatlin has been ravaged by Bolt madness after repeated defeats, and has the nickname of the millennium old two.
2015 was Gatlin's peak, with Gatlin running a personal best of 9.74 seconds, while Bolt's best was only 9.87 seconds, but probably too eager to win.
In the end, he lost to Bolt at the Beijing World Championships with a 0.01 second disadvantage to Bolt.
By the 2017 World Championships, which was also Bolt's retirement battle, Gatlin finally defeated Bolt by 0.03 seconds in the last match where he could defeat his old enemy, and won the world championship gold medal again after twelve years.
How similar the scene was when everyone thought Bolt would overtake again, the script was rewritten by Gatling, only to see him rush across the finish line with a furious roar, this time winning.
At this moment of tears after the game, I wonder what he remembered?
A bow is a tribute to a generation of legends, a tribute to the greatest sprinter of this era, and an affirmation of one's perseverance.
Although Bolt regretted in his heart, he also hugged Gatlin to congratulate him, Both Bolt and Gatling are Olympic 100-meter legendary superstars, the former represents the maximum speed limit of human beings, and the latter represents the most enduring evergreen combat power of human beings.
It's incredible that he survived Bolt's peak at the age of four, and in 2019 he still won the silver medal in the 100 meters of the Doha World Championships at the age of 37, becoming the oldest medalist in the history of the World Championships.
However, the legend will finally come to an end, the 39-year-old sprained his hamstring in the men's 100m semifinals of the US Championships, and finally ran only 10.87 seconds to rank eighth, completely missing the 2021 Tokyo Olympics is doubly regrettable.
If Bolt is an Olympic miracle, then Gatlin can definitely be regarded as the Olympic spirit, thanks to the encouragement and strength he has brought to countless people.
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