By Paul A. Reid, Senior Staff Reporter 
Bolt ... looking to clock 20.4 at World Junior Championships. - File
WESTERN BUREAU:
TWENTY-FOUR hours after he destroyed the record books in the Boys Under 17 200m at the 15th Central American and Caribbean Juniors (CAC) Games in Bridgetown, Barbados, William Knibb's Usain Bolt was still trying to come to grips with the blazing 20.61 seconds (Note: Final time was 20.61, not 20.60 as earlier reported) he had run.
The 6' 4" Bolt who will not turn 16 until next month, kept referring to his 21.60 seconds time in his favourite event and had to be reminded several times by reporters that he had in fact run a whole second faster than that.
Bolt returned home for the second time this season from an international meet with a four gold medal haul after winning the Boys Under 17 200m and 400m, and was part of the winning 4x100m and 4x400m teams, all events won in new meet record times.
Bolt's 20.61 in the 200m, eclipsed the 21.34 seconds he set in the preliminaries and erased Omar Brown's 21.47 set in 1998.
His time of 47.12 seconds in the 400m finals also bettered his own 48.00 run in the heats. It erased the 48.14 set by another Jamaican, Kimani Williams, set in 2000.
The 4x100m quartet set a new time of 40.95 breaking the time set by Trinidad and Tobago two years ago while the 3:16.61 in the 4x400m beat the 3:18.29 set by another Jamaican quartet 12 years ago.
Bolt admitted, however, that he was still surprised at the time he ran in the 200m, describing it as "out of this world" and told reporters just after returning with the rest of the team yesterday, that he dedicated the win to his teammate Andre Wellington.
He explained that Wellington was depressed after picking up an injury and was not able to face the starter in the final and told him to go do it for both of them.
His reaction to the time flashed on the scoreboard in the stadium was one of shock he told reporters as he was expecting to run maybe 20.8 seconds.
This kind of performance, he said, did a world of good to his confidence as he said he is now ready to take up the challenge and go in search for the one goal he has yet to achieve this season, a gold medal at the World Junior Championships set to start next week in Kingston.
While not remembering the name of the two American athletes ranked above him in the 200m this year so far, more importantly he said he knew what times they were running and what he needed to do to beat them.
He was well aware of the times he would need to run come next week, he said, and added that he knew that with some effort he should be able to run 20.4 which should be good enough to get him past the winning post first.
The 200m will be the only individual event Bolt will be running at the World Juniors as he said he took a decision with his coaches to sit out the 400m as he had not started running sub 45 second times.
Between the start of camp on Thursday, Bolt said he would be concentrating on his starts and speed around the corners as he still had work to do in those areas.
While reminding the reporters that he was not yet 16 and was still a kid and needed to do what kids did.
"I am looking forward to the end of the season when I can sleep as long as I want and play football on the streets with my friends in Sherwood Content, Trelawny," Bolt said.
