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Bolt runs 9.79 seconds in the Paris rain (Extra)
Jul 17, 2009, 19:48 GMT
Paris - Usain Bolt defied the rain again as he stormed to a personal season best 9.79 seconds over 100 metres at the Paris Golden League stop on Friday.
The three-time Olympic champion and world record holder Bolt moved ahead at the halfway mark as he improved his previous 2009 time of 9.88 seconds by nine hundredth in the Stade de France.
Bolt moved within two hundredth of the world leading 9.77 American world champion Tyson Gay ran last week in much better conditions in Rome. Bolt also had his fastest 200m race of the year in the rain, 19.59 seconds earlier this month in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Daniel Bailey of Antigua and Yohan Blake of Jamaica ran personal bests of 9.91 and 9.93 seconds, respectively, to finish behind Bolt.
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WOW, Yohan is improving each race. I wonder what would be his time by the time we reach the World Champs? Go BOLT, POWELL, BLAKE and KERRON STEWART... Bless and One Love.
To those who charge that Bolt is using drugs I say; can't you see that the man is naturally fast. At only twenty two and with such speed he will be a force to reckon with for a long time. And Yohan Blake running under 19 secs. at 19 years old is coming strong behind him.
I am not sure what to make of Carl Lewis. Obviously he has not followed the progress of Usain as a Junior. It was quite clear tous Jamaicans and the world that he would be someone special, someone the athletic world has never seen.The world has seen many geniuses before; Mozart, Einstein, Michael Jackson? Usain is simply a genius on the track, an aberation of nature. If he continues to improve he will certainly become 'The Legend'
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nickJul 17th, 2009 - 20:02:57
i am looking forward to a three-peat from bolt next month, and i would like to tell Mr. carl lewis to eat his heart out becuz there is another jamaican waiting in the wings namely yohan blake (9.93)and he is only 19years.
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