Bolt like a bat out of hell

9.69 seconds. That's, nine point six nine seconds! With no tailwind. That was awesome!

Usain Bolt - so damned good that he only has to run for 90 metres

This is the Olympics, competing against the best athletes in the world and 10 metres before the finish line, Bolt is slowing, looking around with his arms stretched wide in celebration. Now, that is what I call class!

"It’s been recorded that he takes only 41 steps to run 100m. Try it. Go outside and try running 41 steps flat out and see how far you get. Some of us won't make it past the letter box."

- Paul Lewis, The New Zealand Herald

Just think, maybe he'll decide to run for the full 100m next time. How quick can he go? A low 9.6, anyone? A high 9.5?

He'd just better be clean. The signs look good. As far as I am aware he has been tested several times before and during the Olympics, and I assume that a World Record beater is now tested after the event as a matter of fact? That may be no guarantee, but I hope he is just as he seems - a freak of nature and a man who is, quite simply, taking the piss out of the opposition.

I have read a couple of reports having a dig at Bolt for his actions, but they deserve no recognition. When you're that far in front, with that much in hand, you have every right to have some fun!

The 200 metres beckon and Michael Johnson's World Record of 19.32 has got to be under serious threat. Of course that assumes Bolt doesn't decide to slow down after 150m and start waving to the crowd.

Or, perhaps Bolt could take a quick break mid-race and pop-in to McDonalds for some of his favoured Chicken Nuggets? There has to be some big sponsorship coming his way from the Big Ron, surely it's too good an opportunity for the food-chain giant to miss... "Usain Bolt, fastest man in the world. Powered by McDonalds." Then again, maybe he could run in a Ronald McDonald clown suit?

I think he can do a mid/high 19.2. We'll find out on Wednesday.

PS. I lost my money on Asafa Powell because the odds on Bolt were so ridiculously short. Wonder why that was?