THANKS TO YOU Usain Bolt. I will never forget this. How can anyone?

Thanks to Asafa Powell, who also ran (injured). Now Asafa will have to do his surgery and get back in shape and come again - to beat Tyson Gay, who also ran. There lies the problem. Bolt was so far ahead, that silver and bronze were relegated to the also-ran category.

There is excitement but after the euphoria this world will wake up to realise that Usain Bolt, the great, has redefined sprinting and how future participants will look physically. To equal Bolt's older records, the new breed of sprinters will need to look like basketball players, six-and-a-half feet, or taller. Imagine a 7'1" Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal burning up the curve on an athletics track in a 200-metres. Fearful indeed but it is the reality that has struck - like a bolt of lightning.

Frightening

But I also fear that Bolt's run may have frightened the short bodybuilders away from the sport. And I fear that, indeed, after Bolt retires, at say age 32 (with more money than he can possibly use), he will leave world athletics with the 100 and 200 metres (everything about them, including the hopes and dreams of persons yet to be born) in his back pocket.

That said, I love this boy, who has done more for the sport, and for Jamaican tourism than anyone else in modern time.

I am, etc.,

Stead M. Williams

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