LONDON – In the end, 2012 wasn’t the last Olympics to see Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps. It was the Summer Games where their legendary status was cemented.Bolt became the first athlete to win both sprints at consecutive Olympics.
The Jamaican track sensation electrified the Olympic Stadium in London by winning the 100 meters in 9.63 seconds and the 200 in 19.32.
It was so effortless that he could afford to ease up over the last few strides of the 200 and raise his left index finger to his lips.
It was telling everyone to shush.“That was for all that people that doubted me, all the people that was talking all kinds of stuff that I wasn’t going to do it, I was going to be beaten,” Bolt said. “I was just telling them: 'You can stop talking.