Usain Bolt Breaks 200m World Record!

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August 20, 2008

Usain Bolt dazzled the crowd once again with Dance moves and another World Record. The race was over at 100 meters and all that was still to be determined the home stretch was how fast the Bolt would run. Bolt did not disappoint, he crossed the line and broke Michael Johnson's 12 year record with a 19.30. The rest of the field was scattered over the ground while reggie blasted and Bolt danced. Usain Bolt has now set two World Records and won two gold medals but he still has one medal left to capture when the Jamaicans go head to head with the Americans in the 4x1.

Crawford and Dix take silver and Bronze, Spearmon gets DQ'ed for stepping on the lane lines.

Pictures by Victah Sailer/Photorun.net

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	Sam Murray posted August 21 at 10:11pm. For Karen: Ben Johnson is from Falmouth, Jamaica and later emigrated to Canada. Bolt is from Trelawny. The two are about ten miles apart. Nobody has yet to respond to the Jamiacan woman dropping her sprinting pr by over .5 seconds in a little less than a year to win a gold medal. And with people like Gatlin, Montgomery, Ben Johnson, Pettigrew, you name it, doping is a legitimate fact in track and field. These people went undetected for awhile. Johnson wasn't caught until a full year after the 1987 World Championships. Pettigrew was never caught, he merely confessed years later that he doped and passed all drug tests! As for envy, I'm a 10K runner, so I envy no sprinter whatsoever. Sorry Karen...
	Coaching Trend posted August 21 at 6:17pm. short sprinters are done for. If your under 6 ft. your going straight to the mile and beyond from now on.
	Floyd Mayne posted August 21 at 3:12pm. Bolt a de big man "KABOOM" Some people is too envious. Whatever Bolt did or do he deserve it 100%. Bolt is not doping or cheating. But he is the Fastest man on earth, de man eat good natural food, when some of us eating Berger-King. Instead of being so Jealous and too face of Bolt, Go back when he was around 16 years old and recall the talent he had (20.5). What to come next, if I was Bolt, my next move will be the 400m. People this is the judgment, The IAAF tested Bolt multiple of times, what more is to explain? “Bad-minded”
	Karen posted August 21 at 1:51pm. Sam Murray, you should be ashamed of yourself. Please get facts on Bolt's career before posting something that reads like it should be written in GREEN...green for envy. As to the comment that he is from the same area as Ben Johnson.... I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you to clarify that comment. Nobody could be as ignorant as to think that.... naaah... I'll wait for you to clarify.
	ivanvano13 posted August 21 at 11:24am. to all those who says he dopes: he ran 45.35 for 400 at age 16. just sayin...
	IL Spirnter posted August 21 at 6:51am. now i just gotta make my legs move as fast as the shorter guys then i win HE SHOWED ME I CAN WIN
	Cushmace3 posted August 21 at 4:42am. can't believe I am supporting a Jamaican, but Sam your facts are a little off. Bolt started comprting as a professional in 2004. He tried the 100 13 months ago. get it right. 19.30 is in sane. I thought 19.5 at best. He is a freak period. It is easy these days to look at anything freaky as drug induced. What drug right now makes you 6'5 and with fewer strokes on the track? maybe you know more about the latest drugs than I do. Until then this was amazing.
	Genial posted August 21 at 1:33am. Oh I forgot to say this, the world will soon see top distance runners from Jamaica, so the Africans will now have some real competition :)
	Genial posted August 21 at 1:28am. Bolt and other top Jamaican athletes have been tested multiple times by IAAF and THEY SAY HE IS CLEAN READ FOR YOURSELF : http://voices.washingtonpost.com/olympics/2008/08/iaaf_bolt_…
	Anonymous Coward posted August 20 at 10:22pm. doper...has to be...MJ's time was impossible to break....and still be clean at least
	John Petricevic posted August 20 at 10:11pm. hey 'DEATH OF THE SPRINTER'... you are a douche!
	Sam Murray posted August 20 at 9:10pm. Bolt began competing on the professional circuit 13 months ago. And he is from the same area of the Caribbean that Ben Johnson was from... That aside, the Jamaican team has been a little suspicious these Olympic games. Fraser, the women's 100 m. champion, dropped her pr by over half a second from a year ago, and she only finished third in the Jamaican national championships. Consider also that Jamaica has no official anti-doping agency. With this in mind, one must also consider how iconic sprinting is in Jamaica. It is like swimming in Australia, or football in the US. Bolt obviously has motive (winning a gold medal aside) and means. Either way, I won't be surprised if he has his medal and records stripped by a scandal.
	Cushmace3 posted August 20 at 8:07pm. Bolt ran 20.5 at age 15. We should have known then that he is pretty special. Actually we did. Cover of Track and Field News at either 15 or 16?
	Death Of The Sprinter posted August 20 at 6:25pm. Bolt is not doping or cheating. But he has killed the notion the sprinting is scientific and can be developed. His insanely easy victories while setting world records should make every sprinter alive give up and quit. Any idea we had that hard work and a technically perfect race was the only way to set a world record has been blown away. The bottom line now is talent and physiology. Bolt is going to be 25? for the next olympics.. why is anyone going to try to race him? Why is anyone going to train to run the 100? Sure Bolt's progression of times is impressive, but his demeanor and the last 40 meters of both his olympic victories destroy the necessity for analyzing form, race strategy, and any thought that good sprinting needed to be scientific or perfect. It has been affirmed that running really really fast is attitude, guts and glory.
	Wayne Wu posted August 20 at 4:47pm. I disagree with you Sam. If you pay attention to Usain's progression from age 16 on up, it is very gradual and there really isn't a huge jump between times. He's fast. End of story.
	Sam Murray posted August 20 at 3:52pm. two words: doping scandal
	Ricky Trevino posted August 20 at 2:46pm. This guy makes me want to quit distance running and become a sprinter, lol.