What if Bolt actually tried?
From the start of these Olympics all the talk has been about Michael Phelps and the “amazing” feat he was trying to accomplish by winning eight gold medals in just one Olympics games. Well, Phelps did win all eight; and it is amazing; and I’m sure we’ll hear so much about that in the next few weeks that Phelps may start penetrating our dreams. So I’m going to talk about Usain Bolt and his equally amazing accomplishment, that may get barely 1/3 of the attention that Phelps gets.
Look closely at that picture above…..look at that margin of victory………and yes that is a 100m race. These are the fastest men in the world, and Bolt jogged and celebrated for the last 15 to 20 meters, all while setting what may perhaps be one of the most unbreakable individual records in the history of competitive sports. 9.69s; are you kidding me? Do you remember when Maurice Greene set the record at 9.79s in 1999? Track enthusiast were sure that was unbreakable. What about when Asafa Powell broke that record in 2007 by clocking 9.74s? Once again everyone was in aww. Well, when Bolt ran 9.72s earlier this year, in only his second 100m race, the red carpets were beginning to roll for him, but 9.69s…….are you kidding me! I’m trying to emphasize here how unbelievable this is. Not to mention the fact that he didn’t even run the whole race at full speed. Once he looked to his right and realized Asafa was nowhere to be found he slowed up and started celebrating. If this dude had ran that race like everyone else behind him, he could have easily ran about 9.58; unquestionably.
PLEASE LET THIS DUDE BE CLEAN!!!!!!! 
In the wake of a number of doping scandals, this sport has loss a lot of support in the past few years, and this could be just the thing to give it some much needed resuscitation. It’s crazy how easy he made this look. A .20 seconds margin of victory in the 100m race is something that hasn’t been done since Jesse Owens in his prime. I just hope it has all to do with the fact that he is an uncommon 6′5″ sprinter with a huge stride. Being a Caribbean man myself, I’m glad to see Bold representing the Caribbean with this gold medal, but I would hate to find out that he was all juiced-up in the process. I personally don’t believe he is, but in today’s sports, you have to wonder. After what we’ve seen thus far it may be foolish to say this record will never be broken, but unless Bolt decides to actually run full speed for an entire race, I don’t know if anyone else will be able to top it.
