Usain Bolt Breaks 200m World Record!

bolt is innocent until proven guilty

woooooooooooooooooooooooow that fast!

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...

short sprinters are done for. If your under 6 ft. your going straight to the mile and beyond from now on.

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”

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.

to all those who says he dopes: he ran 45.35 for 400 at age 16.

just sayin...

now i just gotta make my legs move as fast as the shorter guys

then i win
HE SHOWED ME I CAN WIN

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.

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 :)

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_tested_at_least_11_t.html

doper...has to be...MJ's time was impossible to break....and still be clean at least

hey 'DEATH OF THE SPRINTER'... you are a douche!

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.

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?

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.

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.

two words: doping scandal

This guy makes me want to quit distance running and become a sprinter, lol.