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Old 08-16-2009, 02:54 PM   #1
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Default Usain Bolt smashes own record (100 M)

Didn't see this posted anywhere, hopefully not a fata. Love him or hate him, he's a beast.

http://tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=287896

Running full-out in ideal conditions and against the toughest competition possible for the first time in his 22 years, Bolt blew away his own world record by a massive .11 seconds and made Gay seem like a laggard despite setting a U.S. record of 9.71 seconds.

It was the biggest increase in the record since electronic time was introduced in 1968.
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Has there ever been a more appropriately named athlete? He's really fast.
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Old 08-16-2009, 03:32 PM   #3
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3rd place was 9.84?! Wow.
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Old 08-16-2009, 04:35 PM   #4
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I wonder if they x rayed this guy for bionics...unreal
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Old 08-16-2009, 06:09 PM   #5
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Amazing runner. He's got to be the best sprinter of all time the way he smashes records by a lot.
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Old 08-16-2009, 06:13 PM   #6
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Incredible time. Is he going to do the 200 M also? I wonder how much technology in shoes and track surface over the years has helped in breaking records.
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Old 08-16-2009, 08:51 PM   #7
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I love watching this guy and its incredible...but still think that he's on drugs.
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Old 08-16-2009, 09:16 PM   #8
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Usain was hilarious on Top Gear - the story about him eating McNuggets, napping, and eating more nuggets before the Gold Medal in Beijing was hilarious.

I don't necessarily think he's on drugs, but I do think he should be voluntarily submitting to a whole schwack of testing, hell, on a weekly basis to keep the record clean. Freeze sample for future testing too.

It's a sad truth to modern athletics, but I think it has to be done. I can't cheer Lance or any other cyclist in the TDF or UCI without wanting to see a doping report 1st.
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Old 08-16-2009, 09:17 PM   #9
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I wanna be Bolt.
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Old 08-16-2009, 09:22 PM   #10
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Usain was hilarious on Top Gear - the story about him eating McNuggets, napping, and eating more nuggets before the Gold Medal in Beijing was hilarious.

I don't necessarily think he's on drugs, but I do think he should be voluntarily submitting to a whole schwack of testing, hell, on a weekly basis to keep the record clean. Freeze sample for future testing too.

It's a sad truth to modern athletics, but I think it has to be done. I can't cheer Lance or any other cyclist in the TDF or UCI without wanting to see a doping report 1st.
Its the staggering amount of time he has sliced off the world record though...and last year it was only 1/2 trying. At least this time he ran for almost the whole 100m!

When a guy is suddenly this much faster than the other incredibly fast guys it makes me wonder. I have a hard time thinking that his training and equipment is that much better than the other guys...and in some ways its a sad comment on the world we live in.
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Old 08-16-2009, 09:43 PM   #11
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It is pretty unfortunate, but I thought the same thing as Slava did. With the amount of training and technology utilized by every athlete these days, it's hard to trust anyone who blows the competition away by so much. He could be clean of course, and I hope he is, but there's always the skeptical part of me that's waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Usain was hilarious on Top Gear - the story about him eating McNuggets, napping, and eating more nuggets before the Gold Medal in Beijing was hilarious.
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Phelps who?
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dude is fast.
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Old 08-17-2009, 09:10 AM   #15
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love him in those Gatorade commercials
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Not comparing the two athletes, but i'm pretty sure Joffrey Reynolds, the RB for the Stamps, and one of the best RB in the league, eats a bag of Wendys before every game. I actually saw him once in the parking lot before a game get out of his car with a bag and walk into the admin offices.
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I am on the fence about bolt and roids.

Some people are just genetically gifted. Bailey in Atlanta, Bolt, etc. Its too bad baseball and its dodgyness has ruined sports for everyone else.
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loved that Top Gear episode, what a funny guy. Nuggets!? lol.
The man is insane, I cannot believe how fast he is.
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Darren Rovell of CNBC is patting himself on the back right now. He figured Bolt pulled up in the Olympics so he could break his own record later and cash in on more endorsements and other financial opportunities. From his twitter account (@darrenrovell1):

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Old 08-17-2009, 11:20 PM   #20
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I don't think he dopes, he was just sent back from time to destroy man kind. He really is a machine.
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