Usain Bolt & Yohan Blake End Season In Style
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The final night of Diamond League action belonged to Jamaica as Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake stole the show in the sprints.
The Diamond League meeting in Brussels on Friday night brought the curtain down on what has been a super exciting season of athletics but Bolt and Blake both showed that they had a little something left for the final night.
Bolt was up first as he well and truly put his false start in the 100m final at the world championships behind him as he ran the fastest time of the year at 9.76 seconds.
But just minutes later Blake showed that anything Bolt could do he could do too as he ran the second fastest 200m of all time.
Blake won the 100m in Daegu but showed that he could be a force over 200m as he closed a time of 19.26 second to overtake the time set by Michael Johnson.
He now lies in second behind teammate Bolt. Speaking to Sky Sports after the race Blake said: "I was looking for this and I got it. I expected to run fast but not this fast.
"The last 40 metres was crazy, but I'm like a beast when that happens. I just take control of the track."
But there wasn't good new all round on Friday night as Sally Pearson didn't end her season as she would have wished as she fell in the 100m hurdles - she walked off the track unhurt.
But there was some Brit success as Dai Green won the Diamond Race title for the 400m - despite coming second in the final race of the season to Javier Coulson.
Phillips Idowu was another Brit who secured the Diamond Race title as he finished fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 16.29m.
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