Jamaican Track and Field Athletes

Usain Bolt beaten by Yohan Blake at Jamaica trials

Here is what MSN Fox Sports had to say about the men's 100M race at the Jamaican National Trials:

KINGSTON, JAMAICA (AP)

The Fastest Man in the World wasn't the fastest man in Jamaica on Friday night.

That honor goes to Yohan Blake, who blew away Usain Bolt out of the starting blocks and finished the 100-meter final in 9.75 seconds to upset the world-record holder by 0.11 seconds in the Jamaican Olympic trials.

A shocker? Well, that's for the world to decide. One thing for sure, however, is that the calculus for the London Olympics has changed dramatically.

''Nine-point-seven-five, it's awesome,'' Blake said. ''I won the world championship, so I've got that. Now, I'm the national champion for Jamaica, so I've got that. And now, I go into the Olympics like this.''

Blake is, indeed, the reigning world champion, but that victory came with an asterisk because Bolt didn't run that night after being disqualified for a false start. This was their first rematch, their first real race since then. Bolt was considered the favorite, not only because of his world record - 9.58 seconds - but because Blake, his training partner, had never run below 9.82 in his life.

Well, now, he has.

The 9.75 seconds goes down as the best time this year and also breaks the four-year-old National Stadium record; both previous marks were 9.76 - both held by Bolt.

As much as the numbers, though, it was all that daylight between Blake and Bolt at the finish line that told this story. Blake, the man known as ''The Beast,'' let out a primal scream when he crossed.

Bolt just sort of pulled up - no ''To the World'' pose or anything else to celebrate. And for as poor as that scene at the finish line must have looked, the start was even worse. Always the toughest part of the race for the 6-foot-5 defending Olympic champion, Bolt lumbered out of the blocks this time and had to make up heavy ground simply to get in the mix.

Afterward, he said someone near the start line was bothering him, beginning with the semifinals, where he also got off to a bad start.

''I had to ignore it,'' Bolt said. ''I had trouble getting out, but I kept feeling like I could not give up.''

Asafa Powell will join them at the Olympics, after finishing in 9.88.

As was Bolt, who knows there are four more weeks to go before the Olympics - plenty of time to get in shape to actually catch someone instead of avoid being caught. The man who coaches them both, Glen Mills, said Blake came into this race in far better shape than Bolt.

''We're right where we want to be, going into London,'' Mills said. ''We just want to keep them healthy. That's the key.''

But there are two more days of racing left. It starts Saturday with heats in the 200, the race Bolt has always considered more his ''job,'' while the 100 is more like a hobby.

It was widely believed Blake might provide a better challenge to Bolt in the 200 because he holds the world's second-fastest time at 19.26. Bolt's record is 19.19. The 200 final is scheduled for Sunday.

''He's a tough cookie, and I think he'll survive,'' Mills said about Bolt.

Blake certainly will.

He changed the story line on this night. Instead of talking about what it would take to catch The World's Fastest Man, he was fielding questions of a different sort: Is there pressure being the front-runner?

''No pressure at all,'' he said.