Bolt, Jamaica Rule the Sprints at the World Championships

Bolt Anchors Relay Gold, Jamaicans Sweep Sprints
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Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt (pictured) didn’t take his foot off the gas on Sunday, streaking across the finish line to complete a hat trick of gold medals at the track and field world championships in Moscow.
Bolt anchored Jamaica in the 4×100-meter relay, following teammates Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade to clock a time of 37.36 seconds. The U.S. was second and Great Britain finished third before being disqualified for an illegal handoff.
The victory made Bolt the most decorated world championships athlete ever, with eight golds and two silvers. Only U.S. sprinters Carl Lewis and Allyson Felix are close—they each have eight golds, one silver and one bronze.

Jamaica’s dominance didn’t end there. Earlier in the day, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who had already won the 100 and the 200, made it a clean sweep of the sprinting events by leading the team to gold in the women’s 4×100 relay. The quartet—including Carrie Russell, Kerron Stewart and Schillonie Calvert—blazed home in a world-championship record 41.29 seconds. The U.S. finished second.
—Joshua Robinson
Mourinho Comes Home and Wins, Of Course

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho (pictured) returned to Stamford Bridge on Sunday to find a love-in at his first league game back in charge. With Chelsea’s 2-0 victory over Hull City, Mourinho quickly fell into old habits: never losing at home.
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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho

During the coach’s first stint at Chelsea, from 2004 to Sept. 2007, the club’s record in 60 league games at Stamford Bridge was 46 wins, 14 draws and no defeats. That total, after a six-year break that took Mourinho to Inter Milan and Real Madrid, is now 47 wins.
“I am at home again; I am where I want to be again,” Mourinho wrote in his program notes. “I am, once again, in a club that is much more than my club—it is also a passion.”
In Sunday’s other EPL game, Tottenham got its campaign off to a winning start by beating newly promoted Crystal Palace 1-0.
—J.R.
A version of this article appeared August 19, 2013, on page B8 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Heard On The Field.

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