Usain Bolt Sets 100 Meter Dash World Record at 9.72
FanIQ Blog —
Step aside N'ail Diggs, Usain Bolt officially has the best name in sports.
Headline writers are already eagerly awaiting all the possibilities as the the Beijing Games approach. Bolt figures to win gold as he bolted to a 9.72 100 meter dash at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
Bolt, from Jamaica where you're obligated to have a sweet name, broke the record held by fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell.
You to wonder, if his name is indeed Usain Bolt, that he was obligated to become a sprinter.
As you can see from the video, Bolt isn't your prototypical sprinter. ...
We Have A New World’s Fastest Man
Intentional Foul —
Introducing Usain Bolt, the fastest person in the world. In case you missed it with all the MMA fun going on, the 100-meter dash now has a new record time as the Jamaican-born Bolt turned in a 9.72 seconds performance, beating the old record by two tenths of a second. In bonus news, the record Bolt beat was previously held by Asafa Powell — another Jamaican sprinter.
Not only did Bolt bolt to the new world record, he beat Tyson Gay — the best American sprinter — in the process. Bolt’s performance puts even more emphasis on the upcoming track and ...
Usain Bolt: Cool Name, Cooler Story
The Big Lead —
Missed over the weekend by 99.9 percent of sports fans, for no reason other than “any startling performance brings immediate suspicion” that someone has cheated: Sprinter Usain Bolt setting a world record in the 100 meter race. It’s like the next slugger to jack 60 homers. Won’t everyone will assume he’s cheating, like Mark McGwire et al?Be that as it may: Jamaica’s Bolt is 21, stands at 6-foot-5, and obliterated the record with a time of 9.72. This makes him the fastest human being on the planet. He recently ran a 9.76 and people chalked that up as bunk. We’re hoping he’s not doping. Hey, ...
How fast?!
And now, bowls... —
Two weeks is a long time in athletics, but then, it turns out, so is 9.76 seconds. Having seen Usain Bolt destroy fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell's 100m world record a fortnight ago with an astonishing time of 9.72 seconds, we were treated this week to another sprinting milestone as Dayron Robles set a new benchmark for all 110m ...
YouTube: Usain Bolt's 100 meter world record run
Fourth-Place Medal —
The men's 100-meter dash is usually the most anticipated event of every Summer Olympics, and this time around should be no different. American record holder Tyson Gay will face off against Jamaica's Asafa Powell and Usain Bolt, the former and current world record holders, respectively. The three men have run the three fastest 100 times in history, all within the last 11 months. Bolt snatched the world record away from Powell this past May in a meet in New York, running a blazing 9.72. I decided to carry around a stopwatch today to see what I could get done in 9.72 ...
