Word: bolting
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...race was over at the turn, but this time, Usain Bolt didn't clown around. No chest beating before he crossed the finish line. No mugging for the millions on TV. Believe it or not, for Bolt, that astounding 100m win Saturday night was just an afterthought. The 200m world record was the one he always wanted...
...seconds flashed on the scoreboard. He beat the world record by .01, a hundredth of a second (the winning time was later lowered to 19.30). Michael Johnson's sacrosanct, 12-year old 200m mark, 19.32 seconds, set in the '96 Atlanta Olympics, was wiped off the track. Bolt became the first runner since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win both the 100m and 200m races at an Olympics. He's the first to ever break world records in each. "I just blew my mind," Bolt said after the race, "and blew the world's mind...
...official. The second week of the Olympics is a bonanza of Bolt. Two races, two world records, and one more to go - the 4X100m relay on Friday. People are even mentioning him as they did a certain swimmer last week. "He added spirit to the sport," says Shawn Crawford, the 200m gold medalist in '04, who backed into a silver this time around when two other sprinters were disqualified for stepping out of their lanes. "He danced for us in the introduction, he danced for us at the end. I mean, he put on a show...
...stretch? Perhaps, though it's mathematically impossible for a sprinter to win 8 golds. But like Phelps, the 6 ft. 5-in. Bolt keeps you in your seat. Start with the pre-race ritual. As the loudspeaker blared military music during introductions, Bolt, who turned 22 just hours after his race, was far from standing at attention. He slapped his chest, shimmied and smiled. He pointed to the 91,000 fans in the Bird's Nest...
...think so, because I believe it. There wasn't any doubt in my mind, until I missed the final, that I was the world's fastest man. You can 'coulda woulda shoulda' Bolt's race. If he had run to the line, what he could have done? This is going to sound weird, but it's only 9.69. You know, it's not 9.58. Or 9 forty-something...