London 2017 World Championships
Bolt and Gatlin having a discussion after their 100m heats. Photo Credit: Making of Champions/PaV media

A lot has been said about the winning time of the men’s 100m final at the ongoing IAAF World Championships in London, with Justin Gatlin’s victory in a time of 9.92s being regarded as too slow for the GOLD medal position at the World Championships.

At the World Press Conference that followed the men’s 100m final, a journalist tries to find out why this is the case, saying that Gatlin’s time is the slowest since 2003 and suggesting that the times weren’t as fast due to the rigorous anti-doping measures put in place by the appropriate bodies.

However, the reporter’s facts aren’t even accurate as Jamaica’s Yohan Blake won the men’s 100m at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu with the same mark of 9.92s.

World Record holder Usain Bolts feels the question is in bad taste and disrespectful, and doesn’t hesitate to say so. Watch him tell off the reporter:

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Yemi Galadima is a Senior Sportswriter and Editor at Making of Champions. She has a bias for Athletics and was previously a Sports Reporter at the National Mirror, where she hosted a weekly column ‘On the Track with Yemi Olus’ for over two years. A self-acclaimed ‘athletics junkie’, she has covered national and international events live, such as the African Athletics Championships, African Games, Olympics and World Athletics Championships. She also freelances for World Athletics.

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