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10 Mins Video Clip: Usain Bolt New 200m World Record 19.19
Usain Bolt breaks 200m world record in time of 19.19sec in Berlin
• Sprinter shaves 0.11 seconds off his own world record
• Bolt breaks second record in a week
Usain Bolt’s extraordinary world championships continued as he broke his own 200m world record, running in a time of 19.19sec that slashed 0.11sec off the time he set in Beijing last year. Earlier this week he ran a time of 9.58sec to break his own 100m world record by exactly the same margin.
“I can definitely say I didn’t expect that because I was a little bit tired,” Bolt said after the race. “I said ‘Let’s try because people are really looking out for this’. I said ‘It won’t hurt to try’. So I tried really hard and now I’m really tired.
“Maybe next time I should just run the 200m or the 100m alone,” he added. “My form was going backwards. I wasn’t running upright. It wasn’t a good race but it was a fast one.”
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
‘I aim to become a legend,’ says Usain Bolt as he smashes 200m world record
• Jamaican sprints into history in 19.19 seconds
• ‘Sir Usain Bolt’? That would be very nice’
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Congratulations, Jamaica.
Now, since the Committee in germany is investigating the South African female runner who “came out of nowhere” to set new world records in the women’s 800m.- they are checking to see if she really is a woman- I am strongly recommending that they check Lightning Bolt to see if he has any cheetah blood in him, or maybe antelope.
What a run! Watching these young people push back the concept of what is achieveable is a oy.
Perhaps the young South African woman would help redefine what a woman is, if the battery of tests she is supposed to undergo does not break her spirit first.
I am glad that BolT never bothered with the blather
of Blatter.
Didn’t Bolt bolt out of nowhere about four years ago?
I air my concern and concur with my immediate writer on USain Bolt’breaking of both 100m and 200m World record events. I hope now that the hype has subdued, it’s time for the World especially the Anti Doping Agency to verhemently instigate investigations in not only what Bolt did, but why all of a sudden 3/4 of the jamaicans seems to be performing wonders.
Trust me, I am proud to be black and associated with Bolt’s success, but when a human being defies the laws of speed and gravity, I don’t care whether blue or black, pink or red, it’s just fair that everything possible be done to find out why and how. No one has ever done what Bolt has within a space of 12 months, coming from nowhere, except that he was a 200 world Junior champion. The human physiology by virtue of it being what it’s, does not concur with Bolt’s very sudden development considering the fact that and please, that’s my opinon, he has fast/middle twitch fibers not capable of doing what he’s doing.
Unless the Human Physiology that we all know is and has been so wrong until the coming of lightening bolt. Otherwise, it begs every question by everyone to even investigate the entire jamaican team thoroughly much as I love the little innocent giggles from the little 100m winner kid, Sherry Ann Frasier.
Otherwise, if Bolt’s performance it that real, then the only competion he has and I don’t mean this in bad taste, is “Moonshine Flash,” the world horse recorder holder at 400 yards because, he is far way beyond the capabilities of any other human beings past or present.
Otherwise, I am proud to be part of this history in making and it’s my prayer that it stands the test of time. God bless yer all.
Enock
Former Chief National Coach
I just truly need the opinion of all these IAAF doctors/Professors of medicine who have been there so long especially that no woman has ever even come close to the 400m world record that in my opinion, will stand the test of time, unless the young girl from South Africa Semenya, decides to drop down into 400m. I think we should in future consider races for cheetahs so that we might know which is the fastest and greatest of all cheetahs because the human speed notion, is being put to test.
Wamuzanga, you mised the sarcasm I attempted to direct to the White World Critics of the performance of African diaspora athletes.
I draw your attention to the fact that the had never heard of kip Kino either, and they disqualified Abe Belika of Ethiopia, after he won at tehe Rome Olympics, running barefoor. Thier attitude is the same as “If an African connects with his/her spiritual self, it must be witchcraft”.
If an African knows the lost wax method of making metalware, he/she must have learned it from some Greek or Roman who came there.
No one has yet claimed that Yao Ming took growth hormones to achieve his very symetrical 7′6″ physique.I am a fan of Yao’s too.
Anything an African does still surprises the European, because deep inside, they expect nothing.
No one but the creator knows whta the human physique is capable of, until it has been done, and detractors are left in the dust! All talk about particular muscles is just rubbish. The muscle that matters is the human heart, and the brain that powers it.
For years, we thought that African American runners, with superior training facilities,and supposedly better food. were better. Now we see.Yam, dasheen and cassava are natural foods, that are good for you.
Now, did Venus nad Serena Williams take drugs? and Tiger Woods? Give us a break.
Next thing you will hear is that Barak Obama did something illegal to give him an edge over the almost senile McCAin. Some people never give up!
We all congratulate Bolt and are sincerly hope that all is well as far as his records and performances are concerned, but we must be cautious…remember Florence Griffith-Joiner, Ben Johnson,Marion Jones,Tim Montgomery, Justin gatlin, C.J. Hunter. Kelli White…….and the list goes on!
The drug testing done after the 2008 Olympics was the toughest ever. It caught a number of European athletes, not a single African or Caribbean, or African-American athlete was disqualified.By now, they have inspected Usain Bolt from every angle, except perhaps the colour,odour and texture of his excreta. But, they never give up. They could have dismissed McDnald Bailey as an abberation, and Jesse Owens,but since 1960, they have had to rethink athletics, and are squirming under the onslaught of athletes from the African diaspora. You see it too, in World Cup Soccer.Last time in Germany, nine of the French eleven were African. Oh, Bliss.
Ah the folly of a Trini , even their compliments ‘ must be taken with a grain of salt cousin Bolt , for they’ll give you a cup of water and turn round and kick down your bucket, thus leaving you in thirst . What exactly are they attributing to the global running successes of Yardee brothers and sisters , as well as others across the Diaspora? Yes, the food they eat, the elite gene pools of Africans , and doping . Notice very little consideration is given to the systematic structural policy that was created in the wake of initial grateful Jamaican success stories , who understood their national responsibilities to give back by mentoring , and proudly waving the flag which encouraged upcoming others to strive to emulate them , as they too try to elevate themselves on to the world stage. Don Quarry won a Gold and Silver in the 76 Montreal Olympics and he came home and started a running Sports Academy , and with the help of his government we saw a myriad of proud winners since.
Trinidad and Tobago won a Gold in the same period , and we made Crawford a Minister of Sports, name a plane after him, and wine and dine him for a month. Last Olympics he had to beg St. Vincent Olympic Committee for a press pass to go to Beijing, and no one even on this board found that to be a problem . Wendell Mottley won Silver some time before ,then became a St Anns political MP with a bright PNM future until someone -perhaps his then wife – mysteriously shot him in his knees , and we know the end result of his career thanks to Manning . Mc Donald Baily won something at one time, but died in obscurity, perhaps no one outside of our resident blogging Historians knows who he is.
The Kenyans and Ethiopians have done the same like Jamaica since their early success , by building on the backs of early giants since Mexico in the case of the former. Today, every long distance race are theirs for the taking no matter what obstacles are placed in their way , even as Kenyan kids walk 100 miles to school daily ,and most of their parents engage in inter ethnic political battles, and economic struggles.
Ever since 1979 , when Trinidad and Tobago staged and won the netball competition, along with New Zealand and Australia at the Jean Pierre Complex, and every angry , disgusted Caribbean sore looser fan booed each time our once powerful , and grand Calypso Girls touched the ball, I always tried to figure out why Trinis were so hated by others across the region , even with all their attempts at generosity .
I just finally got a clear understanding, and hope that most of us on this bloggersphere can figure it out as well , or perhaps we are so vain to really care anyway.
T-Man ,let me translate your subtle swipe at any form of national art or sporting investments , as you are one that sincerely believe that the only effort worth pursuing as a policy is that of academic, where scholarships to foreign universities , and eventual brain drain are the eventual end goal. We won’t investigate if the social / psychological price some of our kids and families have to pay might be so steep that some have to resort to cheating , (buying exams) and sometimes suicides as many deprive themselves of wholesome recreations ,and much needed important life skills to sustain them throughout later life.
We would therefore follow your lead and rain on the parade of cousin Bolt ,while speculating whether the Jamaicans are also sporting cheats like the few Black Yankee win at all cost misguided, and the then young ,naïve Jamaican Ben Johnson that sold his soul to Canada , who kicked him to the curb once he became a useless national disgrace-the initial victim of conniving sporting and medical elites.
As a former Caribbean person I am extremely proud and full of admiration for Usain Bolt, but I also remember Merlene Ottley, the famous Jamaican “Queen of Track”.
She won 14 World Championship medals between 1983 to 1997 —more than any other athlete, male or female — however, her failure to win many golds in major international competitions earned her the nickname “the Bronze Queen” in racing circles. She has won a total of three gold, three silver and eight bronze medals in the 4 x 100 m relay, the 100-m, and 200-m races. In 1999, during a meet in Lucerne, Switzerland, a urine sample submitted had returned positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Her ‘B’ sample also contained higher than normal levels of the substance. Ottey was subsequently banned by the IAAF from competing in the upcoming twenty-seventh Olympiad in Sydney, Australia in 2000. She also pulled out of World Championships in Seville, Spain.
Neal,
You are obviously not aware of the number of Jamaicans who have lost their athletic scholarships from American colleges because of the ues of steroids and banned substances.
Look, there is no doubt that Blacks have proven their superiority in almost all athletic challenges. No one has to be convinced of that.But there are a few cheaters out there from just about every country in the universe.
I hear you loud and clear T- Man, and concur. This sport like numerous others certainly has it’s share of problems when it comes to doping , and Jamaicans are guilty in many instances one can be sure as long as they too are prepared to adopt in desperation , the ‘win at any cost mentality,’ favored by others.
Hopefully our own nationals won’t travel down that pathway . We can only do our part as parents, leaders, mentors particularly for the younger impressionable minds , and should never fail to inculcate into them sound values of the merits of honesty , hard work ,and the futility in quick fixes in all aspects of life , and the reasons are obvious by now one would think.
According to the wise ones- Like cousin Bolt , “ the night can run as much as it wants , but the day would finally catch up with it.”
Perhaps it’s time I write that much delayed book I have been talking about as a tribute to the wise lady , as her admonitions served me in good stead through the decades, and just might be useful to others -in and out of sports- that care to listen . And no , I have absolutely no intention of walking along our illustrous and expensive Piarco Airport , or across our city and peddle it in similar fashion to the once important. relevant Dr Morgan Job, like if I am a hungry natty head Hasley Crawford Stadium Nuts vendor during an overpriced concert for a Yankee or Yardee musical artist.
Who said we don’t support the art , and sport in our dear country? I stand corrected.
The man or woman that can make me hate Sweet T&T aka Rainbow Country ,ain’t born as yet.