How unbelievable is the world record set by usain bolt in the 100 meter dash?
It’s the official slogan of the 12th World Championships of Track and Field and they hit you with it everywhere from the Brandenburg Gate to the upscale streets of Friedrichstrasse and the Kurfurstendamm, and in every shop window in town. And, of course, they’re everywhere at Olympiastadion, the massive grim-grey relic of the 1936 Olympics, the reminder of the bad-old days of the National Socialist Party regime that they’ve renovated into the state-of-the-art site of the biggest track and field event to hit the German capital since the days of Jesse Owens. Usain Bolt must have been reading all them all. All he did Sunday night was deliver the greatest time in the history of sprinting, 9.58 seconds for 100 meters, a totally eye-popping performance that destroyed his own world record for the distance, the 9.69 he ran at last year’s Beijing Olympics, and turned perhaps the greatest gathering of sprint talent ever gathered for a single race into seven of his personal foils. And he might ha
Usain Bolt crossed the finish line, saw his record-setting time on the clock and spread his arms as if he were soaring like a bird. About all this guy can’t do is fly. And by saving his celebration until after the finish line this time, he showed how fast a man really can go on two feet. The Jamaican shattered the world record again Sunday, running 100 meters in 9.58 seconds at the world championships to turn his much-anticipated race against Tyson Gay into a one-man show. That was 0.11 seconds faster than the mark he set last year at the Beijing Olympics — the biggest improvement in the 100-meter record since electronic timing began in 1968. Gay, his closest rival, broke the American mark with his 9.71 performance and still looked like he was jogging — finishing a few big strides behind Bolt in second place. Bolt’s only competition these days is the clock. And when he’s really trying, not hot-dogging it over the line the way he did in China, even time itself doesn’t stand a chance.
It’s the official slogan of the 12th World Championships of Track and Field and they hit you with it everywhere from the Brandenburg Gate to the upscale streets of Friedrichstrasse and the Kurfurstendamm, and in every shop window in town. And, of course, they’re everywhere at Olympiastadion, the massive grim-grey relic of the 1936 Olympics, the reminder of the bad-old days of the National Socialist Party regime that they’ve renovated into the state-of-the-art site of the biggest track and field event to hit the German capital since the days of Jesse Owens. Usain Bolt must have been reading all them all. All he did Sunday night was deliver the greatest time in the history of sprinting, 9.58 seconds for 100 meters, a totally eye-popping performance that destroyed his own world record for the distance, the 9.69 he ran at last year’s Beijing Olympics, and turned perhaps the greatest gathering of sprint talent ever gathered for a single race into seven of his personal foils. And he might ha
Usain Bolt crossed the finish line, saw his record-setting time on the clock and spread his arms as if he were soaring like a bird. About all this guy can’t do is fly. And by saving his celebration until after the finish line this time, he showed how fast a man really can go on two feet. The Jamaican shattered the world record again Sunday, running 100 meters in 9.58 seconds at the world championships to turn his much-anticipated race against Tyson Gay into a one-man show. That was 0.11 seconds faster than the mark he set last year at the Beijing Olympics — the biggest improvement in the 100-meter record since electronic timing began in 1968. Gay, his closest rival, broke the American mark with his 9.71 performance and still looked like he was jogging — finishing a few big strides behind Bolt in second place. Bolt’s only competition these days is the clock. And when he’s really trying, not hot-dogging it over the line the way he did in China, even time itself doesn’t stand a chance.
