Olympics 2016, track and field results: Usain Bolt makes it 9-for-9 with a win in the 4x100

Usain Bolt did it again -- for the ninth time. He anchored the Jamaican 4x100-meter relay team to a win in a time of 37.27 to win his third gold medal of the Rio Games, and ninth overall.

He grabbed the baton nearly even with the US team, but pulled away easily in the homestretch to give Jamaica its third consecutive 4x100 gold. That makes them the first country to win back-to-back-to-back Olympic titles in the event since the U.S. won in 1968, ‘72 and ‘76.

And while Bolt’s brilliance should be praised, so too should the rest of Jamaican sprinting team. There are small rumblings of doping within the small country, but their dominance in the sprints is simply amazing. Bolt is Bolt, but they also have Elaine Thompson on the women’s side, who won the 100 and 200 in Bolt-esque fashion, winning going away in both events.

Bolt keeps saying this will be his last Olympic Games, and it’s a shame -- he’s going to be sorely missed.

Felix missed out on individual glory thanks to a timely dive from Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas in the 400 meters, but she still became the first female track and field Olympian to win five gold medals thanks to the U.S. women’s 4x100 relay team running to a dominant win from Lane 1.

Felix likely isn’t pleased that she lost the 400 meters, but the relay has to take a little bit of the sting away. She ran a phenomenal second leg, and now she has her fifth gold with the help of her teammates Tianna Bartoletta, English Gardner and Tori Bowie.

Team USA’s Morris grazed the bar with her leg on her final jump of the evening -- a jump that would have won her gold had she cleared it -- knocking it to the ground to give Greece’s Ekateríni Stefanídi the gold medal in the women’s pole vault. Both Stefanídi and Morris cleared 4.85 meters, but Stefanídi had fewer misses on the earlier heights, which gave her the gold medal. Morris, the American record holder, just missed out on the gold, but the silver was her first medal in an outdoor global championship.

Almaz Ayana, the world record holder in the 10,000 meters, was supposed to run away with the title in the 5,000 meters -- and she appeared ready to do so, leading the race by a wide margin with about a mile to go. Then, rather quickly, the Kenyans started reeling her in. Vivian Cheruiyot passed her with less than three laps to go and never looked back, running to an Olympic record of 14:26 to bring Kenya its first gold medal in the women’s 5,000 meters. Ayana would finish third, running a time that was slower than the second half of her 10,000 meter world record. It was a shocking upset.