Bolt begins ‘legend’ campaign Saturday

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Usain Bolt will begin the campaign to repeat his three gold medal haul from Beijing 2008 this Saturday.

Bolt will run the preliminaries of the Men’s 100m at 4:00am with the finals being run the following day at 3:50pm.

His 200m-title defence will begin two days later on Tuesday, August 7. The 200m finals will be run at 2:55pm on Thursday.

The winner of the men’s 4x100m finals, where Jamaica starts as overwhelming favourite, will be decided on August 11 at 3:00pm.