TOKYO: Usain Bolt’s men’s 100m crown will have a new owner at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday as Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama targets golfing gold and US swimmer Caeleb Dressel aims for two more titles.
Also on day nine, the men’s tennis final pits Germany’s Alexander Zverev — who ended Novak Djokovic’s pursuit of a Golden Grand Slam — against Russian Karen Khachanov.
The pandemic-postponed 2020 Games are the first since Athens 2004 to be held without Jamaican sprint king Bolt, who retired in 2017 with the past three 100m and 200m titles, in Beijing, London and Rio.
The first Olympic 100m of the post-Bolt era looks a wide-open contest if the first round is anything to go by. American Trayvon Bromell, who owns the fastest…
