Nevermind Bolt. Did anyone see Bakele in the 10,000 metres last night.



He's a pure machine.



Some of the other distances in Athletics don't have many "stars" nowadays. (Men and Womens 800 and 1500 spring to to mind). Thankgoodness for Bolt and Bakele (oh and Jess Ennis

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19.19 for 200m



Bloody hell.

I don't know why he doesn't try something different like the hurldes or the 400 metres.



He's got nothing to achieve in his "two events" now.

He mentioned about the 400m towards the end of his career because it's too demanding for him at this Stage of his career...

Does this mean he's signing for Cas???

Phil Ford could do that, and he couldn't even run in a straight line.

And he says he felt tired before the race and didn't run well!



I reckon he can go faster at 200m - traditionally the 200m world record is a bit less than twice the 100m record - that would suggest Bolt should run around 19.1 (and probably sub 19 seconds

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I think he will be the first to go sub 9.5 for 100m and sub 19 for the 200

100m:



Bolt covered the distance in 42 strides.



If my maths is right (and it often isn't) that equates to almost 8 feet per stride and probably somewhere over 9 once he hits full speed (bearing in mind his strides would've been much shorter after the start).



Astounding.

How long before another athlete of this standard comes along - there must be a limit to mechanically how fast the human body can actually run?

I'd struggle to long jump that!

Average stride for many athletes who run longer distances is around 9 feet, sprinters have to make sure they don't over-stride as this reduces their speed. Bolt is so fast because he can maintain high leg speed and a larger than average stride. It was bound to happen that a freakish tall guy with that leg speed would come along - he's it.



Amazing is definately the word (and clean as well - unlike FloJo who did similar things in Womens sprinting).