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Bolt Simply electrifying!
Usain Bolt has continued to talk about gold medal and world record at a stratospheric 200 meters Thursday at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.
In 19.19 seconds, the Jamaican improved by 11 hundredths of seconds the previous world record, as it did four days ago by spraying in the 9.58 world record of 100 meters.
Author of 100-200 meters double at the Olympic Games in Beijing last year with already two world records beaten, Bolt was able to repeat this amazing feat in Berlin, relegating the opposition to over 10 meters at a 200 meters fly high.
Usain Bolt
“I have given everything. I made a good start was the key. After the start, I felt good,” said Bolt, launched a rocket in the corridor 5.
The Panama Edward Alonso was relegated to 0.62 seconds, while American Wallace Spearmon was given the bronze.
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Bolt could not disappoint, since just before the race, Jamaica before once again marked the spirits expeditiously with the victory in the 400 meter hurdles Melaine Walker of world champion after being sacred Olympic champion.
Bolt, who succeeds the winners to the American Tyson Gay – who had missed the race due to injury – is now the Berlin of Jamaicans. “Ich bin ein Berliner”, said U.S. President John F. Kennedy during the Cold War. Bolt was originally presented with a jersey “Ich bin ein Berlino”, in reference to the nickname of the mascot of the World in Germany.
On the eve of his 23rd birthday, Bolt has confirmed he is no longer on the same planet as the other sprinters.
Walker finished the 400 meter hurdles in 52.42 seconds, the second time in history. She anticipated the American Lashinda Demus (52.96) and Josanne Lucas of Trinidad and Tobago took the bronze in 53.20. Only the Russian Yuliya Pechenkina was better when she ran 52.34 in August 2003.
The warm evening in Berlin (30 degrees) was wonderful from start to finish also with the Croatian Blanka Vlasic who has retained his world title to the task. Surprise in Beijing where she had to be content with silver, Vlasic has cleared a bar at 2.04 meters before failing three times at 2.10 m, a bar called a centimeter over the world record. The Olympic bronze medalist Russia’s Anna Chicherova took the money before the German Ariane Friedrich, both athletes have crossed 2.02 m. Belgian Olympic champion Tia Hellebaut had retired before Berlin.
The wheel has turned in 110 m hurdles. Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados won the photo finish. After hitting the first hurdle, he committed a fault-free to succeed in 13.14 seconds.
American Terrence Trammell took the silver in 13.15 ahead of his compatriot David Payne.
The final took place without some of the best specialists in the high hurdles. The Olympic champion and world record holder, Dayron Robles of Cuba has been released in the semi-finals, injured after hitting the first three obstacles. The world champion title, the Chinese Liu Xiang, was not aligned in Berlin due to injury