Posts Tagged Usain Bolt 200m world record
Bolt elevates his game on biggest stages
Posted by ShopinJA in Sports Center on August 22nd, 2009
Left to Right: Silver Medalist Alonso Edward (Panama) 19.81 | Gold Medalist Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 19.19 | Bronze Medalist Wallace Spearman (USA) 19.85
BERLIN, Germany (AP) - All over the city hang posters of Usain Bolt, his smile radiating, his hands held high in triumph as he crosses the finish line.
Under the image is a simple phrase - “Who faster?”
As if that’s even open for discussion anymore.
Bolt was dazzling yet again, breaking another world record at the World Championships. This time, it was the 200 metres, which he finished in 19.19 seconds. He shattered his old world record by a whopping .11 seconds, the same margin he trimmed off the 100 earlier in the competition, when he finished in 9.58.
These days, no one can catch him. No one can even push him.
“Who faster?”
How about who wants second?
“I didn’t have that on my mind,” Bolt said of the world record. “But I got it right so I’m just happy with myself.”
Got it right, indeed.
In his race Thursday, the Jamaican went all out, holding nothing back. He grunted all the way through the race, trying to propel himself to the finish a little faster.
And just like at the Olympics in Beijing - when he started shattering records - his only competition was the clock. Even that didn’t stand a chance. Bolt beat Alonso Edward of Panama by .62 seconds - a landslide in sprinting.
