Usain Bolt’s Ungodly Anchor Leg
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It’s already been established that Usain Bolt is a freak, but what he did at the Penn Relays this past weekend may just graduate him from the “freak” moniker and move him to the “best athlete, maybe ever” category. Hyperbole? Maybe so, but then again, it’s not often I get to react to an 8.79 split time in a 4×100 relay, either. While some are wondering what the World’s Fastest Man was doing at the Penn Relays, his performance while he was there was otherworldly. Bolt was so good, he upstaged the fact there were Catholic school girls running around in track and field gear.
Now, before someone calls Chris Hansen on me, all I meant by that was, when Bolt shows up to race, everything else involved takes a back seat to the Jamaican speed demon.
Yes, I know Bolt had a running start, but a sub-nine second 100-meter dash is, for lack of a better word, ridiculous. Even more so? Getting close to traveling 30 MPH, all thanks to the muscles in his legs (and arms, but legs mainly).
Not only that, but because of Bolt’s long-and-lean build, he doesn’t have a traditional sprinter’s body. Obviously, that little “fact” doesn’t seem to matter when Bolt races. Long strides + sprinter’s leg speed = Bolt, which, in turn = the best sprinter ever — and really, it’s not even close.
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every once in a lifetime, there are individuals in sports who come along and stop you dead in your tracks, no pun intended, there was Dr J, Magic and Bird, Michael, Tiger, now there’s Usain. I get goose bumps just thinking what he’s accomplished in such a short period of time. I can only liken him to Tiger Woods, who set the golfing world on it’s ear, but just how do you describe this one. There are no more adjectives to descibe what Usain has done, you just run out of superlatives. I am just grateful that I was here to witness it in my lifetime, not read it in a history book in the next generation. Oh and by the way, makes me incredibly proud to be jAMAICAN
Howie, the only fitting description I can offer of Bolt is “otherworldly.” I’m not sure anything else really fits. Dude truly is a freak of nature.