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Cant believe what the Lightening Bolt did in the 200 - didnt think Michael Johnson's WR was ready to go - but he took it into a 0.9 headwind!!!
The BBC commentator was just raving on about what Bolt had done at the end of the race, and ou could hear he was slightly in shock - and then (obviously with the producer in his earpiece) he pauses and goes "... Im sorry, Im not sure who finished second and third" and I realised then I had no idea either, because they werent even in the same shot.
what he has done in the 100 & 200 is just unbelievable... he's something different to anything that's come before. Its LITERALLY like a 13 year old kids sports day, with the boys running a race, and then a grown man turns up to run against them...
People have said he celebrates too much, but I think its balls - he isnt taunting people, it just a impetuous display of joy and celebration of his great powers. He isnt just clipping something of WR's - he is smashing them - 3 of them in one meet (with a bit of help from Asafa & the boys in the relay I think)... I cant imagine what it must have felt like, as he came into the second stage of that 100 and he really put his foot down and the realisation that no one could live with him, that he was moving faster under his own power than any human being has ever done in history...
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And I was really happy to see the relay gold for Jamaica. A talent as great as Asafa Powell deserves a gold and it would have been awful for him always to be known as a bottler, but he has his gold now too... and those boys must have a great team spirit. Even though Asafa was a gold hope in the 100 and Bolt beat him so comprehensively, the determination on his face in the final straight to get the third WR for Usain when the gold was already certain was incredible... he had a big lead but he was going away from them, and even the Lightening Bolt took a while to catch him up to celebrate!
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hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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