{"id":4669,"date":"2025-03-23T21:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:43:48","slug":"wdl-classics-stockholm-2010-bolt-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-stockholm-2010-bolt-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"WDL Classics Stockholm 2010: Bolt defeated!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Live from the archive every single Sunday on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@diamondleague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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 rare defeat for Usain Bolt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some things which have to be seen to be believed. And a one of them is a second-place finish for Usain Bolt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, Diamond League fans in Stockholm witnessed one of the rarest sights in world sport, as the greatest sprinter in history suffered a shock defeat at the hands of American rival Tyson Gay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gay raced to a meeting record of 9.84 at the 1912 Olympic Stadium, leaving Bolt stunned in second place with a comparatively modest 9.97. It was the Jamaican&#8217;s first defeat in two years, and one of only four 100m losses in the entire course of his professional career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win would prove to be crucial for Gay&#8217;s successful title charge in the Diamond League, as he made up ground on both Bolt and Asafa Powell in the 100m standings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolt, meanwhile, remained philosophical.&nbsp;\u201cI told you I\u2019m not unbeatable,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stockholm also saw meeting records from Gay&#8217;s fellow Americans Bershawn Jackson in the men&#8217;s 400m hurdles and Christian Cantwell in the men&#8217;s shot put.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can rewatch the 2010 Stockholm meeting in full on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel below.<\/p>\n\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%2FJFziqkjlCew%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stockholm 2010 Full Broadcast - Wanda Diamond League\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFziqkjlCew?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>American sprinter Tyson Gay inflicted a shock defeat on Jamaican legend Usain Bolt at the...","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,1137,5],"tags":[215,245,6,25,56],"city":[1189],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-flashback","category-general","tag-100m","tag-245","tag-diamond-league","tag-stockholm","tag-usain-bolt","city-stockholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}