I think your mate's about right. It's no coincidence that the times in the 100m (not just Bolt, but everyone's) are getting steadily quicker. Advances in training, nutrition and other aspects of sports science dictate this. Even the tracks are faster now than in the days of Christie, Lewis et al. Usain Bolt may also, IMO, be naturally the fastest man ever to lace up a pair of spikes, but there's more to it than that. There is, of course, a question of how fast the human body can actually go. And I don't remember any of his predecessors in my lifetime being quite as dominant as Bolt is. Sprinting has been short of superstars lately, and you could argue that he doesn't face the same competition as some of those mentioned did, but given what the likes of Gay and Powell can do, I don't really think that's true. He may be the best around, he may be the best there has been, but it's entirely likely that somebody else will come along sooner or later and go even faster.

Didn't Bolt have some chicken nuggets before running in the Olympics?

He's like Don Bradman. He is so far ahead of anyone else, it has to be more than just training methods, better equipment etc...etc....

I am glad to be around to witness his brilliance.

Well consider this. According to various agencies North American Track and Field Athletics loses it's top ten percentile of it's fastest athletes to the NFL draft.

No doubts at all that the tracks help. First time I ever ran a competitive 1500m on a rubberised track I took nearly 20 secs off my time.

99.94

Well done that bowler, well done, no really. What an absolute pr1ck.

Thats weeney slow for 100m.

After that Race, me drunk as I was last night agreed to race someone over around 100 metres from one end of the street to the other.


Lost by about 0.04 seconds. Gutted I was. I can't say I'll be the next Usain Bolt.

Sorry to go OT, but the defication of Bradman annoys me - probably cos I live in Aus. fact is, he never played outside Australia or England. He also never faced a relentless bowling attack. During the infamous Bodyline series England really only had three quick bowlers. of those only Larwood was genuinely quick, and a hell of a lot of overs in every test in those days were bowled by the likes of Wally Hammond - nice gentle medium pace whilst mainline bowlers took a break. I'm not arguing he was the best ever, but I suspect had he been around and faced the Windies 75-85 (especially pre 1 bouncer per over) his stats would have looked rather poorer to say the least.

Anyway, back on topic, Bolt is just a joy to watch.

Defacating on Bradman? Are you sure you've been watching the correct "video footage" ??

Bradman clearly wasn't good enough.

In this morning's paper, John Regis says that if Maurice Green and Donovan Bailey had been in the same race as Bolt and they had both run at their personal bests, Green would have come third and Bailey fifth.

The 200m will be interesting to see how long he can maintain that sort of pace.

I guess Tyson Gay's injury puts him out of the 4x100m now.
He ran the best time this year prior to this race and, in this race, he set a new national USA record but was still beaten by two metres ... that must be hard to take.

Putting it into a rugby league perspective:

Martin Offiah at he is very best, his absolute fastest could intercept the ball on his own try line, get a 10mtr start and Bolt would still run him down somwhere near the halfway line.

Anybody who saw how lightning fast Martin Offiah was may find it hard to believe that someone else could be that much faster.