Bolt: A Rare Olympian

Bolt strikes twice: Earning his second World Folder in the Beijing Olympics after sprinting the whole time in the Men's 200meters. The scene: Wednesday duskiness under the hazy lights at the Bird's Nest, constantly glancing at the clock while heaving his chest toward the finish contour -- not simply to beat someone for the gold, but to eventually be a part of track's glorious, and sometimes troubled, history.

He, winning the Olympic 200 meters was already expected. his second gold medal of the Beijing Games given. This was now approximately a world record. About growth the fastest male on the planet racing against history.

Erasing doubts from critics that he is a funereal competitor, unlike his performance in the Men's 100 meters which he very won, this time he went all out commencement to stop forging the greatest contest ever run.
"I ethical blew my mind and blew the world's mind," Bolt said after finishing in 19.30 seconds to hole Michael Johnson's 12-year-old world record, one of the most venerable in the books.

Officially, he won by an astounding 0.66 moment over American Shawn Crawford (the biggest margin in an Olympic 200), the defending Olympic champion. Crawford won the silver medal when Churandy Martina of Netherlands Antilles, who had finished 0.52 behind Bolt, was disqualified after a U.S. protest for running out of his lane. "It feels like a charity case," Crawford said.

The bronze medal went to American Walter Dix when the third adult across the line, teammate Wallace Spearmon, as well was disqualified for leaving his lane.

Thanks to the DQs in this race, they moved the Americans into silver, bronze positions.

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