Sports Thread #2 For 8/20/09: Bolting To The Best Ever Status

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No question about it. What Usain Bolt has done tonight was arguably, for me, one of the greatest things I have ever seen in sports. Probably in my lifetime.

It is just unbelievable. Coming into this final, Michael Johnson and Ato Bolton doubted (as did I and many) that he would not break his 200 meter record because of just looking gassed

Usain Bolt will not break his 200 metres world record later on Thursday, American legend Michael Johnson said.
Johnson, who is here at the world championships commentating for the BBC, said that the 22-year-old Jamaican, who won the 100m world title in a world record of 9.58sec on Sunday, was showing signs of fatigue.

"His exertions this week have taken a lot out of him," said Johnson, whose 200m world record was broken by Bolt in Beijing last year in the Olympic final when the Jamaican ran 19.30sec.

"He's also been very busy and he looks tired. It is certainly less possible than it was a few nights ago. Also he has said that his training this year hasn't been as good as last year."

But he did. And he, with this 19.20, for my eyes, has cemented his greatest ever status.