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Bolt, 9.58 - Nothing more to say!

Posted by CaribShout on August 16, 2009 at 7:40pm

Berlin, Germany - Ultimately it was no contest. Usain Bolt of Jamaica cast aside the clowning for 9.58sec*, the World record time it took to win the World title at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, beating Tyson Gay of the USA and an Asafa Powell, also of Jamaica, who took the bronze medal as he had done two years ago in Osaka. Defending champion Gay had actually said prior to the race that if he was with Bolt at 30 metres, “you got a race”. It was both wishful thinking, and in its way, an admission of defeat. Bolt just blasted out of his blocks and was gone. The lead built with every stride, and so, commensurately did Gay’s advantage over Powell. The American ran 9.71sec, for a national record, and Powell finished with a season’s best 9.84sec. Bolt paid Gay the compliment of running the race flat out, and even glancing right a couple of times in the last 20 metres, to ensure that the American, in the lane beside him was not threatening. But just the possibility of it had propelled Bolt to break the World record he set in winning Olympic gold by 0.11sec, a massive margin at this refined level of the sport, but telling testimony to Bolt’s massive talent.

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