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19th August 2016
07:31am BST

Even his 100m record of 9.58 seconds is impossibly rational. Studies have suggested that the fastest a human being could ever run - based on their mechanics, based on how big of a stride they could take and still move that stride at optimal speed - would be 9.48 seconds. That's what is physically possible. Ever.
And Bolt was 10th of a second shy of it.
So he comes into the 200m final off the back of a semi where he literally took the piss and it's business as usual. Outlier business. Business the rest of us wouldn't or couldn't understand.
An eighth gold medal for the Jamaican, more of the fastest men on earth made to look distinctly average, and jaws dropping all over the world.
Usain Bolt - 19.78 seconds Andre De Grasse - 20.02 seconds Christophe Lemaitre - 20.12 secondsHe wins, naturally. But he does it in the most unnatural fashion. https://twitter.com/DIGICELJamaica/status/766472192225865729 Running at a speed of over 27 mph, he really is making us doubt his mortal status. https://twitter.com/MakaloMansa/status/766478927460241408 And how he's smoking competitors on the bend is just frightening. https://twitter.com/ZacEfron/status/766497648987648000 He's 30 on Sunday. Before then (tonight, Saturday morning at 2.35am), he's got the 4x100m final to contest. Still though, he's got us all mesmerised. He's got us all singing his praises. https://twitter.com/lovebscott/status/766485623976841216 The GAA Hour football podcast is here. Listen below or subscribe here on iTunes.
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