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Usain Bolt's Final 100m Race: 'There He Goes'

Track and field's greatest sprinter is expected to run his last individual race Saturday in London. Jamaican Usain Bolt says he will retire after dominating his sport for a decade.
Four-time Olympic medalist for Trinidad and Tobago and NBC Track and Field Ato Boldon says Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter of all time.

Saturday in London, Jamaican Usain Bolt will run a final 100 meters at track and field's World Championships at approximately 4:45 p.m. ET. A week later, after a relay finale, he says he'll retire. Bolt will leave with an eye-popping highlight reel that includes eight Olympic gold medals over the past three summer games.

Initially, there were nine golds - the hallowed Triple Triple – he won the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 X 100 relay in three straight Olympic games – 2008, 2012 and 2016. But , Bolt lost one of the medals when a teammate on the 2008 Jamaican relay team tested positive for a banned

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