Three-time Olympic medallist Steve Backley looks back on a great last night of athletics in the Olympic Stadium for countries from the Caribbean. Usain Bolt celebrates winning the men?s 4x100m relay in a new world record (Picture: Reuters) What a spectacle the men?s 4x100metres relay final gave us as the track and field programme came to a close on Saturday. Jamaica were always going to be enthralling and I felt it was a fitting end to an athletics schedule which had been lit up by the superb athletes of the Caribbean island. Usain Bolt was dominant, of course, but his buddies helped him to set his only new world record of the Games as the Jamaicans finished in 36.84seconds. I still feel he could have set a new mark in the 200m if he had powered through the line instead of concentrating on beating Yohan Blake. But the Jamaicans have also given us a lesson in getting the baton around. Mo Farah won a gold medal in back-to-back saturday?s in the Olympics Stadium (Picture: Reuters) And at what speed, too.They say they don?t practice; more kidology, I?m afraid. I have seen them practising and practising the change-overs with my own eyes. Although this was the first time they had run the 4x100m in that order. That capped one of the two greatest nights ? both the Saturdays stand out for me and both featured our own Mo Farah. Of course, ?Super Saturday? had Mo, Jess Ennis and Greg Rutherford all winning golds and will live long in the memory. The second Saturday was impressive too, Mo completing his distance double and the Jamaicans lighting up the Olympic Stadium once again after Bolt?s excellence in the individual 100m and 200m. What I hope won?t be forgotten are the performances which went a little bit under the radar, such as the sensational David Rudisha in the 800m. It was fitting that he was so good in what is London 2012 boss Lord Coe?s old race. Seb would have loved that. There was a real turn-up in my old event, the javelin, which was won by a lad from Trinidad & Tobago. If you had asked me to call it beforehand, 19-year-old Keshorn Walcott wouldn?t have been in contention but his success is well deserved. PICTURES: Best of London 2012
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