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Allyson Felix justified her step-up to the 400 metres with a convincing world championships victory which helped send the misfiring United States team soaring up the medals table on Thursday.

Usain Bolt cemented his place as the world’s fastest man by sealing double sprint gold and beating Justin Gatlin for a second time at the World Championships in Beijing today.

A win for the Jamaican in today’s final (7:55 a.m.) will make it four straight 200m titles, an extension of his own record for back-to-back wins at the World Championships.

A day before the final, he wasnt about to give away any race strategy about how he was going to accomplish that, only saying his plan was to “stay in front.”.

American sprinter Justin Gatlin it has been revealed is on a media black-out especially to British news houses and the BBC following “hurtful attacks” and “biased views” in reports.

Adam Kszczot of Poland was about a second behind in silver and Amel Tuka of Bosnia and Herzegovina won the bronze medal. “It’s great to have such a strong performance”.

It was Kenya’s first gold medal in any event shorter than 800-meters.

“I had a lot of confidence in this race because I told myself: you are the world record holder”, said Dibaba, who last month ran 3:50.07 to shatter the world best set in 1993 by China’s Qu Yunxia, a product of controversial coach Massachusetts Junren.