9.58s 9.58s 9.58s If you’re looking for analysis of Usain Bolt’s magnificent 9.58s WR last night, you’re in the right place. , including Bolt’s splits, speeds and a comparison with his previous world record in Beijing. Extra-ordinary. 9.58 seconds for 100m, and Usain Bolt just got better. Quite astonishing, as the Jamaican won the race by 0.13 seconds […]
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Usain Bolt 9.55s? Yeah, right
Yesterday, the news wires were buzzing with the news that scientists in Oslo predicted that Usain Bolt, Jamaica’s triple Olympic champ, would have run 9.55 seconds had he not celebrated prematurely in his 100m final in Beijing. It was on the radios, internet, TV news, all over. A while back, just after that race, we […]
Fastest man in the world?
It’s seems an age ago, but it has only been just over three weeks since . He was duly dubbed the “fastest man in the world”, a title that is given to the record holder over 100m. Or, in some cases, the world champion, as was the case last year when the record holder Asafa […]
World 100m Record broken
The world has a new “fastest man” – the king is dead (for now), long live the new king, Usain Bolt of Jamaica. Bolt last night beat the defending world champion Tyson Gay, and the absent world record holder Asafa Powell to blitz his way to a new world record over 100m. Powell’s time of […]
Boston Marathon 2008 result and splits
Robert Cheruiyot fulfilled most people’s predictions today, by winning the 112th Boston Marathon. But it was not so much the fact that he won as the manner in which he did it that was remarkable. He absolutely destroyed the field through his own front-running efforts, taking up the pace very early on in the race, […]
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