Two national records, two personal bests.

Troy Douglas' performance in Olympic Stadium over the past nine days makes him a natural candidate for Bermuda's athlete of the Games.

But it could have been so much better had the 33-year-old sprint veteran shown a touch of consistency.

In his opening 400-metre event, Douglas blazed through to his third successive Olympic semi-final, clocking a new Bermuda record of 45.26 seconds, only to follow up with a disappointing 46.33 in the semi-finals.

It was a similar story on Wednesday. In the fastest of ten 200 metre morning heats, Douglas again thundered out of his blocks to storm home in 20.41, seven hundredths of a second inside his own national record (20.48).

Statistics would later show that time to be the fourth fastest of the entire field of 78 runners who took part in the first round heats. Only Trinidad's Ato Boldon (20.26), Mike Marsh (20.27) and Jeff Williams (20.37), both of the US, ran faster.

But come Wednesday evening, Douglas couldn't rediscover that form. In a tough quarter-final heat which included Williams, Namibia's Frankie Fredericks and Obadale Thompson of Barbados, Douglas, again after a fast start, faded on the stretch and appeared to resign himself to elimination as he slipped from fourth to sixth. His time of 20.63 was almost two tenths slower than his morning heat.

Had Douglas been able to repeat his morning time he would have qualified for the semi-finals easily. In fact, of the 16 who went through to the semis, only five ran faster than 20.41. A modest 20.58, as it turned out, would have been sufficient to advance.

Douglas, visibly upset by his performance, left the track immediately, avoiding reporters as he headed straight back to the Games Village.

Paula Lewin and Malcolm Smith completed their Olympic regattas with encouraging finishes on the final day of sailing off Savannah on Wednesday.

In winds blowing up to 18 knots, Lewin crossed the line eighth in the Europe dinghy class -- equalling her third best finish in the 11-race series -- and placed 14th overall in the 28-boat fleet. Gold went to Denmark's two-time world champion Kristine Roug.

Smith completed his Laser series with a 35th -- his fourth best finish -- to place 42nd overall in a fleet of 56. Both contenders for the gold were disqualified on the final day, leaving Brazil's Robert Scheidt in first place and Great Britain's Ben Ainslie second.