QOTD
"It was the most impressive athletic performance I’ve ever seen in my life."
- former Olympian Michael Johnson, on Usain Bolt winning both the 100 and 200 meter races in world record time
Well, it was the most impressive track performance I've ever seen. It wasn't that Bolt won or set world records or whatever, it's that he did it effortlessly and didn't even run through the entire race. You can see in the photo below he's clowning and turning to the crowd in the middle of the dang run. It was weird to see a guy crush the field of sprinters and set a world record seemingly without even putting his pedal all the way to the metal.


The Olympics have been better this year in part because of the stories and China's grandiose display, but mostly because NBC is covering it better this time around. They're concentrating on the events rather than "up close and personal" stories or Bob Costas interviews, etc.
bolt... yow, bill

PS - Michael Johnson's famous gold shoes from... was it 1996, I think?

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