Usain Bolt Excites Millions as He Breaks 100m World Record...Again

"I think it will stop at 9.4 [seconds] but you never know..."

That's the thing about Usain Bolt; he always knows how to tantalise the whole world of athletics.

It's one thing for a human to sprint 100m in 9.4 seconds, but to get even quicker than that...it's impossible, right?

Well, who knows? Because at the moment, in the words of Bolt himself, "anything is possible."

On Sunday 16th August 2009 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, millions around the globe witnessed this Jamaican sprinter beat his own world record by a whopping 0.11 seconds in the final of the mens' 100m Sprint at the IAAF World Athletics Championships.

He clocked in a time of 9.58 secs, much quicker than a year earlier, when he showboated his way to a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a time of 9.69 secs.

To take 0.11 secs off a record that pre-Beijing 2008 had fallen by only 0.21 secs in the last 39 years is something very special indeed.

The Berlin race is even more incredible when you think that he had again beaten the likes of Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay, with the latter running an incredible time of 9.71 secs (well, by normal athletics standards), and still only ending up with a silver medal!

When you think of all that, coupled with what seems like an achievement done without the use of anything illegal (and we all know athletics have been plagued by drug scandals, Mr. Dwain Chambers), one cannot help but get excited by the pure talent and living legend that is Usain Bolt.

Bolt is definitely a breath of fresh air to athletics.

Just when drug cheats were plunging this sport into its darkest days, out comes a Jamaican even better than Asafa Powell; a man who can single-handedly transform sprinting and slash all world records within a matter of months to be proclaimed the greatest sprinter the world has ever seen.

Of course, not everyone is completely taken away by Bolt. A US columnist voiced the opinion of the several skeptics hardened by years of doping allegations, saying, "I hope [Usain] Bolt is clean, but after a while, we only hope, we don't believe."

But for the many millions that believe Bolt can, and has, changed the face of athletics, the excitement levels just grow even higher when one thinks of the mind-blowing potential this man has.

Nobody thought 9.69 secs could be topped, and it was—convincingly. But that does not stop many thinking coach Glen Mills' prediction of Bolt ultimately reaching sub-9.5 secs is too much to ask.

Then again, when the man himself says, "I don't think limits," is it not clear that there are simply no limits to what he can achieve?

As was written by Ian Chadband of The Daily Telegraph, Usain Bolt simply sees no limits.

Chadband writes, "Think of this: on a rain-soaked day in Manchester earlier this year, he clocked 8.72 sec for the last rolling 100m on a 150m straight; he lost key weeks of training after his car accident and minor foot surgery in April; and he may well have only been only 85 percent fit on Sunday. What is possible once he is really back to his Beijing sleekest?"

With that in mind, any one of us mere mortals simply cannot help but get excited by what Bolt has already achieved, and what, mind-blowingly, he is still able to achieve.

To finish off with another quote from Usain Bolt, he says, "The competition between me, Tyson [Gay], and Asafa [Powell] is making the sport big again."

Oh no my friend, you are completely wrong. There is no competition; it's just you and the millions of excited people around the world, waiting to see how much you break your world record by next time.