LONDON (AP) — Track official Gordon Staines has two special words for Usain Bolt: “Thank you!”

Staines is the guy who fired the gun to start the men’s 200-meter final Thursday night, and he’s downright thrilled that Bolt and his other competitors stayed “steady” at the start of the race and that no one had to be disqualified.

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