Usain Bolt is from another planet

August 20th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Let us get one thing straight: it is not so much that Usain Bolt is setting world records and winning golds. These things happen at the Olympic Games. It is the fact that in races that last but a scant few seconds, he is absolutely destroying the competition.

At the top level of sprinting competition, everyone is so close; the skill sets of athletes are near identical and it’s the little things (like taking PEDs!) that give you that tenth of a second edge against your competition. But with Bolt, this does not exist. I’m pretty confident he could have crawled in the last 10 meters of his 200 meter run last night and still won (video probably down by the time you read this):

Say what you want about Michael Phelps — his records and medals are an amazing feat — but I was much more entranced and fascinated by Bolt’s Olympic endeavors than Phelps’. Dude is a flat out FREAK.

{HT: The Sporting Blog.}