Like a Bolt of lightening
Filed Under (Jamaica, Track and Field) by pwalker on 06-05-2008
Yet another Jamaican is center stage in the world 100M arena. Usain Bolt shocked the crowd and himself by posting one of the fastest 100M finishes ever at 9.76s at the recently concluded Jamaica International Invitational meet. Bolt, whose specialty is usually the 200M was participating in the event as a warm up to the Olympics, left the field in his dust as the closest finisher, American Darvis Patton, could only muster a 10.08s. Bolt’s time was posted with a following wind of 1.8m/s, just shy of the legal limit.
“I knew that I was coming here to do under 10 seconds” says Bolt, “… I really did not know I was going that fast, I was looking for 9.80 or 9.85″
