Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Guy Can Run!

The guy can run. — US sprinter Walter Dix on the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt

Big up Jamaica for a long overdue first Olympic gold medal in the men's 100 meters after producing generation after generation of top sprinters.

The Third World Girl is inspired that a kid from Trelawny working out in a humble gym and training on a grass running track can smash the best of the rest in the insane World Record time of 9.69 seconds...and that's jogging the last 10 meters.
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She's also holding her breath that his tests come back clean and that like his father says it's the Trelawny yam in him that propels him to go so fast.

1 comment:

Third World Girl said...

Over at the Times of London, Simon Barnes has an interesting piece on how Bolt's amazing run has us believing again in the tarnished sport of sprinting even while clinging to disbelief... then he decides maybe it's the other way around.

Link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
sport/olympics/article4551370.ece