(Adds medal prospects, women’s boxing, mayor)
* Men’s 100 metres tops bill on day nine of London Games
* Murray looks to keep up British gold rush against Federer
* Britons win heptathlon, long jump and 10,000 metres
* Phelps finishes with 18th gold, record 22nd Olympic medal
* Women’s boxing begins, first time at Olympics
By Kevin Liffey and Alison Williams
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Usain Bolt answers the nagging
question of whether he is still the fastest man on Earth on
Sunday in an Olympic cauldron that almost boiled over when
Britain’s athletes enjoyed their greatest night on Saturday.
The Jamaican won a golden treble with three astonishing
world records at the last Olympics in Beijing. But since then he
has lost his world title and his aura of invincibility.
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