Athletics - World Athletics Championships - Men's 200 Metres Final - London Stadium, London, Britain – August 10, 2017. Ramil Guliyev of Turkey celebrates winning the final. REUTERS/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - Among the eight sprinters lined up at the start of the world 200 metres final and the 56,000 people in the crowd watching, only one man probably thought Ramil Guliyev would be the winner, and that was the Azerbaijani-born Turk himself.
His faith was fully justified as 20.09 seconds later he crossed the line ahead of a host of favoured rivals to take the gold medal that had been the property of Usain Bolt since 2009.
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