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Can he do it? – Usain Bolt looking to run the 200m in under 19 seconds in 2014
Usain Bolt. PHOTO/File
Jamaican sprint sensation, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, wants to run the 200 meters in under 19 seconds and possibly as early as 2014.
Bolt, writing in his autobiography “Faster Than Lightning” which went on bookshelves on Tuesday, said achieving that landmark would mean having a ‘perfect’ season, similar to his exploits in 2008.
Bolt believes achieving that feat would mean more than winning medals at the next Olympic Games.
“Suppose I don’t make any quicker times in the 100, I would love to be able to run 18-something seconds in the 200, even if it was an 18.99 race,” Bolt said in his 291-page book.
“Forget making the next Olympics and the medals, breaking that time would be an ever bigger success. I’d love to crack it, knowing that people were sitting in their homes and losing their minds at my achievement”.
Bolt became the first man in Olympic history to win both the 100 meters and 200 meters in world record times in 2008.
He etched his name in history four years later by becoming the first man to win the sprint double at consecutive Olympic Games as well as setting three world records in a single Olympic Games.
