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Jamaica's relay team, (from left) Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Michael Frater and Nesta Carter on the podium after receiving gold medals for their world record men's 4x100m relay victory
Jamaican Usain Bolt continued to steal the show close to the end of the London 2012 Olympic Games by claiming his third gold medal as he anchored his country's sprint relay team to a sensational world record of 36.84 seconds.
Jamaica's quartet clocked 36.84 seconds, smashing the old mark by two-tenths of a second and leaving the United States with silver.
Nesta Carter and Michael Frater produced excellent first and second legs but it was 100m and 200m silver medallist Yohan Blake's blistering third leg that set the platform, while Bolt provided the perfect finale - exploding away to leave Ryan Bailey trailing as the capacity crowd stood to acclaim
Canada were initially given bronze before being disqualified when third-leg runner Jared Connaughton stepped outside of his lane, meaning Trinidad and Tobago were promoted to third place.
The lastest godl has therefore increased Bolt's total number of gold medals to six over two Olympic Games, having also won the 100m, 200m and the 4x100m realy in Beijing. All medals won before his 26th birthday.
Bolt's run was described as “electric” in an atmosphere at the Olympic Stadium that was greatly anticipating the event. After Blake received the baton in the third leg, he tore around the bend - and he was up against Tyson Gay! Usain Bolt was watching that clock all the way down the home straight, and it was a fitting way to conclude a wonderful nine days of athletics in the Olympic Stadium.
Bolt said London 2012 had been "amazing" and on the race added: "It's a wonderful feeling to end on a high note. It was a great championships, I'm happy, the team came out and gave it their all, I wish we could have gone faster but we leave room for improvement."
Usain Bolt ended his London Olympics in glorious style with a third gold and a world record but the 'living legend' was uncertain of repeating the feat again.
He said he did not know if he would be aiming for a third treble gold haul in Rio 2016: "It's going to be hard. Yohan (Blake) is running hard and I'm sure there's going to be more young cats coming up."
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