Ka cika wannan jumla: Bernard ya ji "ciwo" a sakamakon rashin nasarar da ya yi, in ji kocinsa. Duk da haka, ya sake dawowa don lashe gasar
lambar zinare a tseren mita 100 na maza. Kwana daya da suka gabata Bernard ya kafa sabon tarihin duniya na tsayin mita 100 mai tsayi mai tsayi na 47.20s a wasan kusa da na karshe. Bernard ya zama dan Faransa na biyu da ya lashe lambar zinare ta Olympics a cikin iyo, bayan Jean Boiteux, wanda ya lashe tseren mita 400 a wasannin Helsinki na 1952. Ya kuma gama na uku a wasan karshe na maza na mita 50 a bayan César Cielo Filho na Brazil da Amaury Leveaux na Faransa, wanda hakan ya zama karo na farko a tarihin wasannin Olympics da Faransa ta samar da masu lambar yabo biyu a wasan karshe na iyo.