Bolt eyes 200m gold

Bolt smashed the field in Sunday night's 100m final to retain his title, clocking an Olympic record of 9.63 seconds to see off a stellar line-up, with every man bar the injured Asafa Powell going under 10 seconds.

Reigning world champion and training partner Yohan Blake took silver in 9.75s and 2004 champion Justin Gatlin the bronze in 9.79.

"This gold means I am one step closer to being a legend so I'm working toward that," said Bolt, who confirmed he was unaware of an incident which saw a bottle thrown on to the track just before they starting gun fired .

"That's just one step, I have the 200m to go so I can't celebrate."

The bottle incident saw a Dutchman arrested and Bolt said he did not hear the bottle land just metres behind him just before he launches himself down the track to glory.

"No, I keep hearing that," he said. "I don't know who would have done that. The atmosphere was wonderful. I knew it was going to be like this.

"There wasn't a doubt in my mind that it was going to be loud and it was going to be great and you can feel that energy."