Usain Bolt Covers 100 Meters Much More Quickly than Everyone Else

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Usain Bolt crossed the finish line, saw his record-setting time on the clock and spread his arms as if he were soaring like a bird.

About all this guy can’t do is fly. And by saving his celebration until after the finish line this time, he showed how fast a man really can go on two feet.

The Jamaican shattered the world record again Sunday, running 100 meters in 9.58 seconds at the world championships to turn his much-anticipated race against Tyson Gay into a one-man show.

That was 0.11 seconds faster than the mark he set last year at the Beijing Olympics — the biggest improvement in the 100-meter record since electronic timing began in 1968.

Gay, his closest rival, broke the American mark with his 9.71 performance and still looked like he was jogging — finishing a few big strides behind Bolt in second place.

Bolt’s only competition these days is the clock.

And when he’s really trying, not hot-dogging it over the line the way he did in China, even time itself doesn’t stand a chance.

“I don’t run for world records,” said Bolt, who crossed the line with a slight breeze at his back.

Yet those records always seem to find him.

He thinks he can go even lower.

“I know I said 9.4,” Bolt said, grinning. “You never know. I’ll just keep on working.”

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