"It is Over", is a song by Rod Stew­art.

"All Good things come to an end", is a song by Nel­ly Fur­ta­do.

On Sat­ur­day, at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, there was that fa­mil­iar tune in play and whether it was the joy­ous beat of the steel­pan or beat­ing of drums, the signs were pre­sent­ed that T&T men's speed mer­chant era in sprint­ing was com­ing to an end or at least ac­cord­ing to Frank Sina­tra's song, "The end is near."

Is it the end of an era, we will prob­a­bly know next Sat­ur­day when the men's 4x100 me­tres re­lay is staged. How­ev­er, in the heats on a bright morn­ing with the sun­shine push­ing the tem­per­a­ture to 32 de­grees, T&T's three 100m run­ners Ron­del Sor­ril­lo (Heat 2), Ke­ston Bled­man (Heat 5) and Richard Thomp­son (Heat 6) all failed to progress to to­day's semi­fi­nals.

So­ril­lo was third in his heat in a time of 10.23 sec­onds, be­hind even­tu­al win­ner Justin Gatlin and Daniel Bai­ley. At one stage So­ril­lo seemed to have the au­to­mat­ic sec­ond po­si­tion sown up.

"Rac­ing in the first lane, I could not see what was go­ing on around me and in the end that may have af­fect­ed me. I felt that I ex­e­cut­ed a good race but just at the end, I was try­ing for that au­to­mat­ic spot," So­ril­lo said. "I be­lieve, that I have a sub ten in me again and once I progress, I know I will have to do that so I am hop­ing."

Un­for­tu­nate­ly we will nev­er know now.

"Oth­er­wise, the mood is good in the team and we are all fo­cussed on giv­ing our best," said So­ril­lo.

Bled­man was fifth in his heat in a time of 10.20 and al­so failed to ad­vance.

"I have been hav­ing some pain re­cent­ly but it felt okay to­day. It af­fects my start a lit­tle but I was gen­er­al­ly okay with how most of the race went, giv­en the sort of sea­son, I have had ," said Bled­man.

"What­ev­er hap­pens from a team per­spec­tive, we will be ready for the re­lays as we are just a dif­fer­ent group when that hap­pens. I be­lieve that I have to learn from these ex­pe­ri­ences, this is my third Olympics and I still be­lieve in my­self."

Thomp­son, a three-time Olympic medal­list al­so failed to fire, fin­ish­ing sixth in a dis­ap­point­ing time of 10.29, in the same heat where dou­ble Olympic 100m cham­pi­on Us­ain Bolt won in 10.07.

"I have no ex­cus­es. I do not know what hap­pen in the race, I can­not ex­plain what went wrong , it is hard to un­der­stand, I am just very dis­ap­point­ed with the end re­sult," Thomp­son said.

"Af­ter the Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships, I missed two weeks be­cause of a ham­string in­jury but af­ter that I went to Lon­don and since then Ato (Boldon) and I have been hav­ing some fair­ly good train­ing ses­sions so I came in here ex­pect­ing to do bet­ter than this.

"I do not know about the next Olympics, if I will be still here but for the time be­ing, I want to go to the World Cham­pi­onships next year and let us see how things go.

"Now the fo­cus is on the re­lays and I will not al­low this re­sult to­day to af­fect how we pre­pare and get our­selves ready for that. We have the time and the mo­ti­va­tion and a very good his­to­ry in these re­lays so we will be giv­ing that our all," warned Thomp­son.

He added: "Though it may not have looked like it, I gave every­thing I had to­day. Un­for­tu­nate­ly it wasn't enough to ad­vance me to the next round. I told my­self com­ing in­to these games that re­gard­less of the re­sult, I am thank­ful to God for an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty to rep­re­sent T&T at the Olympics. God knows what this year has been like for me and words can't ex­press how much of an ho­n­our it was to rep­re­sent my coun­try again on the world stage.

"To every­one who has sup­port­ed me on this jour­ney, Thank You! I've seen all of the com­ments. Thank you for the pos­i­tive en­er­gy sent my way and I ap­pre­ci­ate your sup­port for me un­der all cir­cum­stances. As for the neg­a­tive com­ments, I am a sport fan as well and I un­der­stand your dis­ap­point­ment in my per­for­mance to­day. No love lost."

Over­all, Bled­man was an un­lucky 25th over­all, with the top 24 ad­vanc­ing and even though his time was the same as those in po­si­tions 22, 23 and 24, they were all high­er placed in their races than him. So­ril­lo was in 29th and Thomp­son in 40th.What­ev­er hap­pens, as Metal­li­ca said: "The Mem­o­ry re­mains."