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Put aside for a moment that in 2012, Usain Bolt solidified his standing as the greatest sprinter in history by winning three gold medals at the London Olympics, matching the three that he had won four years earlier in Beijing.
Forget that Bolt became the first man in history to win the 100- and 200-meters at consecutive Olympics, and never mind that he is tangibly the fastest man ever to walk the earth, having set world records in the 100m (9.58 seconds in 2009) and 200m (19.19 seconds, also in '09), and just to demonstrate that his competitors are not even close, the three fastest times ever in the 100.
Ignore for now the fact that he has calculably evolved his sport, the rarest of purely athletic achievements, and in stride with that, kept track and field globally relevant. Place all of this on hold.
Because Bolt has done something even more remarkable than any of these things (though comprised in some part by all of them): He has become presumptively disconnected from the act of winning or losing a footrace.
It is not the fact of Bolt's victories that defines his greatness; those victories are a given (though only in mythology, not in reality, because he does occasionally lose, just not on the biggest stages when the most people are watching). He has transcended the scoreboard and the stopwatch.
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Forget that Bolt became the first man in history to win the 100- and 200-meters at consecutive Olympics, and never mind that he is tangibly the fastest man ever to walk the earth, having set world records in the 100m (9.58 seconds in 2009) and 200m (19.19 seconds, also in '09), and just to demonstrate that his competitors are not even close, the three fastest times ever in the 100.
Ignore for now the fact that he has calculably evolved his sport, the rarest of purely athletic achievements, and in stride with that, kept track and field globally relevant. Place all of this on hold.
Because Bolt has done something even more remarkable than any of these things (though comprised in some part by all of them): He has become presumptively disconnected from the act of winning or losing a footrace.
It is not the fact of Bolt's victories that defines his greatness; those victories are a given (though only in mythology, not in reality, because he does occasionally lose, just not on the biggest stages when the most people are watching). He has transcended the scoreboard and the stopwatch.
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz2Dfg8J6xo
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201....html?mobile=n
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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