‘Bolt’s 200 win the best ever, first Olympic sprint double in 24 years
Usain Bolt’s 200m world record triumph was the greatest race ever, and bit Michael Johnson word record and its the first Olympic sprint double in 24 years
Bolt, who previously set a new world record of 9.69 seconds in the 100 meters, is the first athlete to win both the 100 and the 200 since Carl Lewis in 1984. Bolt is only 21 years old, and track experts are nearly unanimous in saying that a good coach could improve his technique. There’s every reason to believe that he will be a dominant sprinter for years to come. He has the talent to become the greatest ever.
American Michael Johnson set the previous 200-meter world record of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, a record that felt at the time like it was unbreakable. But no one knew at the time about a 9-year-old Jamaican named Usain Bolt.
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