Sunday, August 16, 2009

Usain...




After a clean start and the most incredible acceleration ever seen, Usain Bolt had redefined the boundaries of human potential with a sensational world record. How fast is 9.58? Carl Lewis, in his best world record, would have been a distant three meters behind. Maurice Greene, more than two. Tyson Gay ran the fastest non-Bolt time by any man and was never in contention. Gay’s 9.71 would have won every major athletics championship 100 in history (except Beijing) by a wide margin. Bolt’s unimaginable .11 improvement of the world record is by far the largest since the introduction of automatic timing. The place times for second, third, fifth and seventh were the fastest ever in what was certainly the greatest sprint race -- perhaps any race -- ever run. And Bolt appeared to ease up slightly before the finish. In the tribune, Prince Albert slapped his forehead in amazement...for good reason.

It was the biggest change in the record since electronic time was introduced in 1968. It came very close to the 9.55-second time that an American professor said Bolt would have run in Beijing had he run all out in the Olympic 100 finals.

At age 15 he ran the fastest 200m dash in history for his age, did the same thing at age 16 ,and finally at age 17, in high school, he ran the fastest time ever for his age and which was a sub 20 second effort. Guy has had natural talent since like 9th grade.

Bolt is like 6 foot 5 inches and 200 pounds. The top speed in the race for Usain Bolt was 30 mph. With a running start, Bolt would have run a football 40 in 3.1 seconds.

Sportynation, this my friends is an athlete not some meddling golfer. This is my Minority Report.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/22825103/vp/32439402#32439402

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