21 year old sprinter Usain Bolt has just broken the 100m world record, clocking 9.72 seconds at the New York Grand Prix meeting. What’s really impressive is that this was only the 5th time Bolt has competed in the 100m, because he is better over 200m!
At 6ft 5in (1.96m) tall Bolt is a giant on the track - you can see him towering over the other sprinters in the video. As a result the rangy figure finds the start the hardest part of the race, and was apparently running 100m as a means of improving his start for his favoured distance, the 200m. Until now Bolt wasn’t even sure whether he would run the 100m in Beijing this summer.
http://beijingolympicsblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/new-100m-world-record-by-usain-bolt/
