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VIDEO: Usain Bolt co-opts LeBron James' celebration after 4x100 win

REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Real recognize real, and Usain Bolt and LeBron James are looking real familiar.

Bolt followed up his 100 meters and 200 meters gold-medal victories at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a third gold on Friday, anchoring Jamaica's victorious 4x100M relay squad. The win was Bolt's 11th career gold medal at the Worlds - to go along with six Olympic golds - making him as decorated an athlete as there is in sports today.

But rather than pat himself on the back or even employ his own signature pose, the world's greatest sprinter gave a nod to the world's best basketball player, copying James' traditional celebration.

This isn't the first time another top player has borrowed from James, and James doesn't seem to mind. When the NFL tweeted out a video last week of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton using the celebration in 2013, James took to Twitter to shout Newton out.

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