Sebastian Coe will look into why Usain Bolt was prevented from taking a skipping rope through security.
Coe to look into why sprint star could not use skipping rope
London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe will look into why Olympic 100 metres champion Usain Bolt was prevented from taking a skipping rope through security.
Bolt has revealed that he has been annoyed by the amount of red tape he has encountered around the athletes' village and the rest of the Olympic Park.
And Coe says he will now investigate why the Jamaican, who set a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds in the process of retaining his sprint crown on Sunday, could not use the rope.
Coe said: "I will look at this, I presume the skipping rope was a warm-up aid so I will look at that.
"I think some of it has been slightly lost in the translation, every venue is different, there are different protocols. I have raced in pretty much most places and that's the nature of it.
Protocols
"I think it was more a broad point about different protocols and I don't read too much into that."
Bolt said on Sunday night: "The Games have been okay, a little bit different from Beijing. There are a lot of rules, oh my God. You can't do anything.
"I was coming and wanted to bring my tablets in and they said I couldn't. I asked why. It is just a rule. I had my skipping rope in my bag and they said I can't bring it in. Why? It is just a rule.
"What if I need to take a rubber band inside to stretch? I can't take it inside because it is a rule. It is just very small rules that don't make any sense to me."
Bolt said he even encountered some overzealous applications of the rules just before the start of the 100m final.
He added: "The guy was telling us to line up. We were about to race and we were being told to stand in a straight line. It is kind of weird."
