Sometime about twelve months ago I was sitting in Bangor, Northern Ireland, still a few weeks shy of my move to Canada and watching the Olympic games. It had been pretty historic; the opening ceremony was unbelievable, the British track riders were dominating, Phelps was owning the swimming pool and then Usain Bolt ran faster than anyone ever has before … by a long way and did it at a canter.

Today, twelve months on, he did it again at the World Athletic Championships, tearing away from the field to shave 0.11 off his previous best time. Nobody else was close and Bolt showed that he saves it for the big occassions to break his record. It would not be shocking to see him break that record a few more times. After all, why set the best time of your career so early in your career and milk all the publicity at one go … spread it out across a career.

It was the fastest 100m race ever as Gay set the American record for the 100m and Powell took the bronze with a time of 9.84.

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