Bolt captures 200 gold in sizzling style

Track and Field: Even with the 200 meters already won, Usain Bolt gritted his teeth and dipped his 6-foot-5 frame at the line.

He proved his point.

The Jamaican may have clowned around before the race and renewed his antics afterward, but for 19.40 seconds Saturday at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, he was as all business. And when he’s this serious, he’s impossible to catch.

“I am still the best,” he said. “It was beautiful.”

Bolt stayed an instant longer in the starting blocks, clearly not wanting to false start as he did in the 100 final when he was disqualified. His slow start hardly mattered. He quickly passed the competition around the curve. From there, it was simply a matter of what his time would be. He didn’t let up, huffing and puffing all the way.

It wasn’t near his world record of 19.19, but it was the fourth fastest in history. And that’s with Bolt admitting he’s nowhere near his record form of two years ago at the worlds. He expects that to change for next year’s London Games, when the stakes are bigger and the lights brighter.

“I have to come to the Olympics and do my extreme best and blow the peoples’ minds,” Bolt said.

He was not the entire show. The Americans hauled in five medals to increase their total to 21, four more than Russia.

Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards-Ross led the women’s 1,600-meter team to gold, while Walter Dix wound up with silver, finishing 0.30 seconds behind Bolt. Danielle Carruthers and Dawn Harper couldn’t catch Sally Pearson in the 100 hurdles but still took silver and bronze.

The surprise of the night for the U.S. came when 21-year-old Matthew Centrowitz finished third in the 1,500 meters, less than a second behind winner Asbel Kiprop of Kenya.

Libyans celebrate win under new flag

Soccer: Hundreds of joyful Libyans cheered and fired off celebratory gunshots in Tripoli’s main square after the national soccer team won in its first match since rebels toppled Moammar Gadhafi’s regime and forced the longtime leader into hiding.

The Libyan team, wearing the colors of the rebel flag and playing in neighboring Egypt, won its African Cup of Nations qualifying match against Mozambique 1-0.

“First there was our great victory over despotism and now in soccer,” said Abdel-Wahab Shoush, 52, who brought his young son to be among the crowds gathered in Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square to watch the match on a giant screen.

The game was played in Egypt and organized by the Egyptian Football Federation with the approval of the country’s interim military rulers, said Abdel-Moneim Mostafa, the technical director of the Confederation of African Football.

There was no audience for security reasons.

Wiggins extends lead at Spanish Vuelta

Cycling: Rein Taaramae of Cofidis won the 14th stage of the Spanish Vuelta for his first victory in a major race and Bradley Wiggins extended his overall lead in a grueling mountain leg.

Taaramae broke away in the final uphill push to finish the 109.2-mile run from Astorga to La Farrapona in 4 hours, 39 minutes, 1 second.

Wiggins is 7 seconds ahead of Sky teammate Christopher Froome, while third-place Bauke Mollema of Rabobank is 36 seconds off the pace.

Schwartzel, Scott, Watson share lead

Golf: Masters champion Charl Schwartzel turned anger into a string of birdies for a 5-under-par 66 that put him in a three-way tie for the lead with Adam Scott and Bubba Watson in the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Mass.

Watson played in the morning and produced what he called a “boring” round of 64 that included an eagle on the seventh hole for the second straight day.

Scott, who won on the TPC Boston eight years, shot 63 in the afternoon.

The morning was filled with big cheers, mostly around one hole.

Brandt Snedeker hit 9-iron from 146 yards on the par-3 16th, and the ball spun back to the right and into the cup. Some 20 minutes later, Greg Chalmers also made an ace.

The leaders were at 10-under 132 as they work their way to a Labor Day finish.

Former Kansas football coach dies

Miscellany: Don Fambrough, the former Kansas football coach who played or coached in five of the nine bowl games the Jayhawks ever participated in, died Saturday. He was 88.

Associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said a family member informed the school that Fambrough, who served two four-year stints as head coach, died following a fall in his home in Lawrence, Kan.

He was an all-Big Six guard for the Jayhawks in 1946 and 1947 and served as an assistant coach of his alma mater for 19 years before becoming head coach in 1971. After four seasons, he became one of the Kansas’ chief fundraisers and then returned as head coach from 1979-82. He was Big Eight coach of the year in 1981 after taking the Jayhawks to the Hall of Fame Bowl.

His eight-year overall record as head coach was 37-48-5.

In a fan poll conducted by the Lawrence Journal-World, Fambrough was a first-team choice at guard.