Bolt breaks 10 seconds for first time this season in Monaco win


Athletics - IAAF Diamond League Herculis meeting - 100m Men - Louis II Stadium, Monaco - July 21, 2017. Prince Albert II of Monaco congratulates Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

MONACO (Reuters) - Usain Bolt ran under 10 seconds for the first time this year as he narrowly won the 100 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.

The eight-times Olympic sprinting champion was slow out of the blocks, just as he was in his last race in Ostrava last month, and never managed to put a big gap between him and the field.

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