Usain Bolt showed up at the World Championships in Berlin last week wearing a t-shirt that said “Ich bin ein Berlino” which was a twist on the words said by JFK “Ich bin ein Berliner” when he visited after the Berlin Wall was erected.  He changed it to say “Berlino” as a tribute to the event’s mascot.  I thought it was pretty sweet.

Just a few days later, Bolt was honored by the city with a three ton piece of an original segment of the Berlin Wall after he broke records in the 100m and 200m races.  The 12-foot high piece …read more

Usain Bolt continues to be a world record shattering machine after he ran the 200m at the world championships yesterday.  The six-foot-five Jamaican sprinter topped his old world record by an astonishing 0.11 with a final time of 19.19.  His closest competitor, Panama’s Alonso Edward, was behind by a whopping 0.62 seconds.  That’s insane!  Even his fellow runners have to give credit where it’s due.

America’s Shawn Crawford came in fourth place and said: “He’s a gift to this earth.  He’s a blessing to the track game. … I’m just waiting for the lights to flash ‘game over’ ’cause I felt …read more

Presumably not content to hold the world records in the men’s 100m and 200m events, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt told the Associated Press this week that he is considering vying for the world record in the 400m, set by Michael Johnson at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain. Said Bolt,
“There are no major championships in 2010, so I could go for the 400-meter record that year,” Bolt said in a BBC interview. “The training for 400 meters is so much harder, but I’m thinking about it.”
Bolt won three Gold Medals at the Beijing Games–in the 200m, 100m, …read more

The cavalcade of Olympians continues. Last night Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt sat down with David Letterman. The 22-year-old was extremely poised even in the midst of Letterman’s silly questions. Take a look:

Bolt won three Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympic Games this summer in the 100m, 200m, and 4×100m events.

The crowds have gone home; the athletes, journalists, and dignataries have boarded flights for cities all over the world; the scores of volunteers have turned the Bird’s Nest back into an empty stadium; and the torch has been handed over to the British. In other words, the Games of the XXIX Olympiad are now history. It’s time to get some sleep.
International Olympic Committee President, Jacques Rogges said on Sunday that his favorite Olympic moment was that of Matthew Emmons, the American shooting contender who blew a chance at the Gold Medal in Athens by shooting the wrong target in the …read more

Three-time Gold Medalist, Usain Bolt of Jamaica held a press conference on Saturday to donate $50,000 of his own money to the Chinese Red Cross, earmarked to helping the survivors of the earthquake that hit China’s Sichaun province on May 12, 2008. The earthquake killed nearly 70,000 people and left more than 10 million people homeless.
Two children injured in the earthquake attended the press conference and presented paintings to the sprinter. Bolt indicated to the China press that he was made very welcome in their country and wanted to give back something to the country that hosted the Olympics that …read more

The action continued at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing on Friday. Here are the results:

In the women’s 5000m event, Ethiopa’s Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene took the Gold Medal, her second of the Beijing Olympic Games. She was followed to the finish line by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for the Silver Medal and Meseret Defar Tola of Ethiopia for the Bronze Medal.
Dibaba also won the Gold Medal in the women’s 10,000 event. She is the first woman to win both long distance events in a single Olympics. American Kara Goucher finished ninth.

In the womens long jump competition, Brazil’s Maurren Higa Maggi …read more

If there was any question that Jamaica’s Usain Bolt was the fastest man on the planet, he erased all doubt today in his 200m win. Bolt set a new world record of 19.30, besting the field by more than a half second. Wallace Spearmon of the United States was presumably so awed by Bolt’s performance that he ran out of his lane, causing him to be disqualified and costing him the Bronze Medal.
Coming in second for the Silver Medal was Churandy Martina of Netherlands Antilles. Shawn Crawford of the United States earned the Bronze Medal. Walter Dix, also of …read more

After all of the hype surrounding this event, the men’s 100m “dash” turned out to be not much of a race at all. Jamaica’s Usain Bolt easily bested the field with an astonishing time of 9.69 seconds, a new world record. Richard Thompson of the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago finished second and Walter Dix of the United States finished third for the Bronze Medal.
Fellow Jamaican, Asafa Powell finished fifth.