LONDON (AP) ― Being the fastest man on Earth doesn’t get you through security any quicker at the Olympics.

There’s no cutting the line for Usain Bolt or getting London’s rigid regulations relaxed.

And the Olympic champion’s not happy about it. Especially when the security guards hold him up ahead of his showpiece 100-meter event.

“I was in the line, we were waiting to run and the guy was telling me to line up straight,” Bolt said early Monday. “I was like, ‘Really? We’re about to run and they are going to make me stand in a straight line?’ There are just some weird rules here.”

Such as not being allowed to get skipping ropes past security.

“They said I can’t bring it in, and I asked, ‘Why?’” Bolt recalled. “They just said, ‘It is the rules.’ So if I have a rubber band that I need to stretch, I can’t take it in. And when I asked why, they say, ‘It’s just the rules.’

“It’s just some weird small rules that don’t make any sense to me, personally.”

Security has been the only major problem area for games organizers. Thousands of soldiers, sailors and air force personnel had to be drafted to plug the gaps left by the failure by private security contractor G4S to supply all the guards it had promised.

Since the games began, it is mainly G4S guards manning entry and exit points.

“Every venue is different. Wherever it happens to be in the world, there are different protocols in most places,” London organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said. “That’s the nature of it.”

But there will be an investigation into Bolt’s frustrations, which Coe initially tried to claim had been “lost in the translation.”

Japan beats France to reach soccer final

WEMBLEY, England (AP) ― World Cup champion Japan reached the women’s Olympic soccer final Monday by beating France 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.

Yuki Ogimi and Mizuho Sakaguchi each scored for Japan, but France substitute Eugenie le Sommer pulled one back in the 75th minute.

A minute later, Elise Bussaglia could have equalized from the penalty spot following a foul, but the Frenchwoman shot wide of the right post.

“They were an amazing team, but we had the most passion,” Japan captain Aya Miyama said.

France attacked for the last 10 minutes of the match, with le Sommer coming close again with an overhead kick that was saved. Ogimi then the hit the post in the 90th after breaking from the halfway line.

Wendie Renard and Louisa Necib each came close for France in the four minutes of extra time.

Japan will play the United States in the final on Thursday.

Kenny, Pendleton keep British rolling

LONDON (AP) ― It was hard to tell what sounded more deafening: Britain’s Jason Kenny winning an Olympic sprint gold medal or Victoria Pendleton moving one step closer to doing the same thing.

The home nation’s dominance of the London Velodrome continued Monday when Kenny swept Gregory Bauge of France in their best-of-three final to give Britain its fifth Olympic gold through seven track events. It was the second for Kenny, who teamed with Philip Hindes and Chris Hoy to win the team sprint earlier in the program. “It’s amazing. I hadn’t thought about it until the last lap, then it suddenly dawned on me. It was quite the battle to get here,” Kenny said. “I didn’t want to mess that one up.”

He certainly didn’t do that. Neither did Pendleton, the reigning world champion who earlier in the day cruised through the quarterfinals in the women’s version of the sprint event.

Judoka says he unintentionally ate pot

LONDON (AP) ― American judo fighter Nick Delpopolo was expelled from the Olympics for doping Monday, saying he unintentionally ate something before the Games that had been baked with marijuana.

Delpopolo is the first of the 10,500 London Games athletes to fail an in-competition doping test. His case is the fifth positive test for a banned substance reported by the IOC since the Olympic body started its London testing program in mid-July. The other four were caught before competing.

The International Olympic Committee said it disqualified Delpopolo from the 73-kilogram class, where he placed seventh. He beat opponents from Hong Kong and Belgium, then lost to fighters from South Korea and Mongolia.