South African gold medallist Wayde van Niekerk was warmly congratulated on his record-breaking 400m run by the world’s fastest sprinter Usain Bolt.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chogTEXxFLg
Van Niekerk set a world record time of 43.03sec at the Rio Games on Sunday night.
Bolt excused himself during an interview and dashed off to congratulate Van Niekerk after his win‚ embracing the athlete and shaking his hand.
>https://twitter.com/MatTMQ/status/765011596016029696Van Niekerk retweeted video footage of the moment‚ early on Monday‚ in a post by Mathew Quinn that read: “Brilliant. Bolt stops interview to go and congratulate Van Niekerk.”