Tyson Gay, the premier American sprinter and second fastest man in the world, just put in a 9.70 sec mark at the World Championships in Berlin, only one one-hundredth (0.01) of a sec off the world record time set by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt at the Beijing Olympics, which was 9.69 sec.
And yet he lost by well over a tenth of a second, which in sprinting is like an hour.
That's because Bolt shattered his own mark in incredible fashion, almost effortlessly gliding to a new world record of 9.58 sec. He said afterwards he thinks he can hit 9.40 before his career peaks. It was only a few years ago we were in the 9.85 area, and not too many years since someone broke 10 sec for the first time ever. Remember, this is meters, not yards. The ten-second mark was only broken by human beings 4 years before I was born.
Usain Bolt is truly an "insane bolt" of lightning on the track.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=4402644
2 comments:
A movie called Boltman is called for!
LOL.
Perfect name for a sprinter though, and its his given name. "Usain Bolt" - even his name sounds fast!
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