Olympics, Usain Bolt, track and field

LONDON – These are Usain Bolt’s Olympic Games. Everyone else here is simply running, jumping, swimming, cycling and rowing in his happy wake.

Relaxed enough to drape a comforting arm around the jittery volunteer responsible for collecting his gear at the start line and cheeky enough to give a stiff-wristed royal wave as he was introduced to the Olympic Stadium crowd, Bolt completed a golden grand slam by becoming the first man to win the 100- and 200-meter titles in successive Olympics.

“I am now a living legend,” he said, and few would argue.

Bolt avenged his losses to teammate Yohan Blake at Jamaica’s Olympic trials by winning the 200 Thursday in 19.32 seconds, despite relaxing over the last 15 meters.

“A lot of people doubted me, but in my mind there wasn’t any doubt. I was really confident in myself,” he said.

“All those people can stop talking now because I am a legend.”

He’s also a showman. Bolt, who won the 100 last week in a sizzling 9.63 seconds, ambled onto the track Thursday wearing a ballcap backward and mugging for the cameras. After he calmed the nervous volunteer in his lane, he whispered something to Warren Weir, the other Jamaican in the final. What did he say?

“One, two, three,” Weir said, smiling. And so it was.

After Bolt came Blake, in a season-best 19.44 seconds, and Weir in a personal-best 19.84 seconds. Wallace Spearmon of the U.S. finished fourth despite running a season-best 19.90.