{"id":3732,"date":"2025-03-09T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-paris-2010-bolt-beats-powell\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:46:37","slug":"wdl-classics-paris-2010-bolt-beats-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-paris-2010-bolt-beats-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"WDL Classics Paris 2010: Bolt beats Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Live from the archive every single Sunday on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@diamondleague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel<\/a>, the WDL Classics series revisits historical Diamond League meetings with a re-live stream of the full two-hour TV broadcast. This week: a clash of the sprint titans in Paris.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By the midway point of the inaugural Diamond League season in 2010, the rivalry between Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell had developed into the story of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Powell had thrown down the gauntlet early with two impressive &#8211; if wind-assisted &#8211; 100m wins in Doha and Oslo, while Bolt\u00a0 had bitten back with a 200m meeting record in Shanghai and a 100m win in Lausanne which saw him equal Powell&#8217;s world lead of 9.82.<\/p>\n<p>So when the two Jamaicans went head to head in Paris, it was fair to expect some fireworks on the track.<\/p>\n<p>As so often, it was Bolt who had the edge, clocking 9.84 to beat Powell by just 0.07 seconds and cut short his rival&#8217;s lead at the top of the Diamond League standings.<\/p>\n<p>The sprint showdown was the centrepiece event of a meeting which also saw a flurry of world leads in other events, including a\u00a0 14:27.41 from Vivian Cheruiyot in the women&#8217;s 5000m and a joint American record of 12.89 from David Oliver in the 110m hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>You can rewatch the 2010 Paris meeting in full on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fne8DHshWsuE%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paris 2010 Full Broadcast - Wanda Diamond League\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ne8DHshWsuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt went head to head with compatriot and rival Asafa Powell at the first ever Diamond...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[213,1109,6,192,56],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashback","tag-asafa-powell","tag-classics","tag-diamond-league","tag-paris","tag-usain-bolt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}