Not sure if you have been watching the Olympics – but I am guessing that if you haven’t been you would have missed the spectacle of Saturday’s Men’s 100m final. Well by spectacle what I really mean is the one man race which was ran/won by Jamaica’s Usain “Lightning” Bolt. After a poor start the world record holder picked up some ungodly speed to get himself about 10metres ahead of his rivals at which point he looked up and started to use air brakes to slow down (air brakes in the form of his arms stretched out). At which point he crossed the line at the new record time.

“I just ran the first 50 meters, then I looked around to make sure I was safe and shut it down,” Bolt, 21, told reporters at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium.

Looking at his run I think he could have maybe broke the 9.5 barrier he had enough speed and pace to go faster. His 9.69 was an improvement upon his own world record and he was well ahead of second place finisher Richard Thompson, who finished in 9.89 seconds. Not only was the record set without a favourable wind (+0.0 m/s) but he visibly slowed down to celebrate before he finished and his shoelace was untied. Bolt averted possible criticism of his mid-race celebration by saying “I wasn’t bragging. When I saw I wasn’t covered, I was just happy.”

Just watch the reactions of all the other runners as he starts to slow down and crosses the line. If you could read minds I think you would hear a unanimous “WHAT THE FUCK was that S**T about” from all the other runners even Asafa Powell was stunned.

Update Bolt ran two heats of his 200metres campaign today and has moved onto the semi finals. In his initial run the 200m commentator was wondering why it seemed that he was easing off and jogging while the runner next to him was at full pelt – the second race he was visibly ahead while jogging past the line. I will explain why everyone things he was jogging – yeah he was jogging what’s your point! – Just watch the kid run the final if he makes it he will do something different. Let’s see if he can beat the 19.32 set by Michael Johnson in the 1996 summer Olympics.

Can some one say sports enhancing drugs! We live in sceptical, disbelieving times and this means in hailing Bolt’s extraordinary achievement questions are also asked that reflect people’s doubts and fears. I’m not for a minute suggesting that he has cheated in any way but this is, of course, the burden Bolt, a clean athlete who has never failed a drug test, carries.

Tyson Gay previously made the following comment about Bolt’s physical superiority, stating “it looked like his knees were going past my face”

However don’t get to happy Jamaica is still 20th in the medals table.

If you missed the race on sat take a look at this;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565572.stm

(The BBC is the only ones with actual footage as nothing is legally allowed on YouTube.