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Video: Usain Bolt Beats World Record 8/16/09

August 17th, 2009 Sports 8 Comments


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As previously noted. He’s fast. Big up Jamaica.

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8 Responses to “Video: Usain Bolt Beats World Record 8/16/09”

  1. Jaim says:
    August 17, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Amazing and fun to watch.

  2. Burn says:
    August 17, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Just the irony of his last name. Couldn’t be more fitting.

  3. freD says:
    August 18, 2009 at 12:33 am

    Apparently Bolt went to Glen Mills to help him figure out the biomechanics of getting a 400M body to win 100M records. Bolt wasn’t a “lazy” prodigy as some rumors suggest.

  4. tim says:
    August 18, 2009 at 8:34 am

    Lazy, really? People think you can be that fast and be lazy? How fast do they think he would be if he worked a little bit?

  5. somejackass says:
    August 18, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    Some biomechanics (or something) expert was on NPR yesterday asserting that he was “sure” that in the next 10 years we’ll see times “well under 9 seconds”… Madness.

  6. Andre says:
    August 18, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    Iono about Bolt. The pandemic history of juiced up athletes is casting aspersion on runners; particularly those who accomplish these kinds of feats.

    *cough* Carl Lewis, Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, etc., etc., etc. *cough*

  7. jrfunkenstein says:
    August 19, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    ‘Iono about Bolt. The pandemic history of juiced up athletes is casting aspersion on runners; particularly those who accomplish these kinds of feats.’

    And what evidence do you have for that slanderous assertion?

    The guy is practically 9 feet tall, will be only 23 years old on August 21, has not even nearly peaked in his career, and currently holds 3 world records and 3 Olympic medals, and has NEVER run afoul of performance enhancing drugs.

    Get ready for him to smash the 200 m record later this week.

  8. freD says:
    August 20, 2009 at 12:14 am

    Mills had Bolt work with weights to strengthen his legs, and he’s still looks more like a Kenyan distance runner than some doped up mesomorphic sprinter. And he’s always been fast. Ben Johnson looked a bit too good to be true – reminds me of a lot of politicians. Helio Gracie proved you don’t have to be a freak of nature to take on the big boys, by doing it with leverage. With Bolt, it’s a biomechanics thing: http://www.slate.com/id/2197679/

    Of course if I was a lot younger, I might have said it’s the really good ganja, mon.

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