Usain Bolt says movement in the blocks distracted him before ill-fated 100m

All runners have bad starts every now and then.

The one and done rule is the worst thing ever to happen to track and field.
I ran tack in high school, and whenever we went to track meets, it was always hard to focus. Between your nerves being on edge and the overall atmosphere, someone is likely to buck and cause a false start trying to get a jump on the rest of the runners. So if they buck and you see them in your peripheral as Bolt explained, you are more likely to think the race as started even though the gun has not sounded.
They need to bring back the old rule and abort this nonsensical one and done rule.

A world class runner distracted??? How many times has he done this.........sounds like a classic "choke" to me.

what a loser. just blame it on someone else.

The dog ate my homework.

Okay, he lost and the other guy won. End of story.

The real reason he lost was the other guy was faster.

Lol, why the hell is he telling everyone, including his competitors, his weak spots ???

GENIUS !!!

The first false start used to be "free" then ANYBODY who false starts after would be DQ'd. People would blatantly false start then the entire field would be where they are right now. So what's the difference?

Every time I log onto Yahoo the first thing I see is photos of sweating black men in some kind of sports costumes. Life must be pretty boring at the Yahoo news desk.

He can blame anyone he wants but he is trained to focus on nothing but himself. This puts him at fault.

Maybe they need to do away with the one and done false start rule...it seems a bit punitive and severe.

Ive done that before.. if you dont have that tunnel vision.. you will be distracted... learned my lesson

excuses

Let me guess, the sun was also in his eyes and the wind was pushing him back, right?

man, someone else was faster champ. Stop making excuses

Good intel revealed that the REAL reason was that he had an itch in a place that for obvious reasons he couldn't scratch at the time!

Jamaican athletes just keep getting better and younger

shut the fup...you got beat. no excuses. no whining. you lost. deal

World class sprinters, especially 100M "fastest man" types, need be macho and arrogant. Mind games are part and parcel of the event, especially when dealing with hundredths of a second. He's trying to shrug off the loss. I'm not making excuses for Bolt. Let's face it, all this will just make the Olympic 100M final all the more exciting and us fans will benefit.