Jamaicans Spell Speed 'D-N-A'

He wins at World Championships one week after default

(NEWSER) - Yep, he's still fast. Usain Bolt didn't get a chance to prove it last week when a false start disqualified him from the 100 meters at the World Championships. He didn't make the same mistake today in the 200 meters, blowing past the field with the fourth-fastest time in history (19:40), reports USA Today . "I'm back to my old self now," he said. The USA's Michael Dix finished second (19:70). More»

Jamaican jumped the gun, while Pistorius advances in men's 400 meter

(NEWSER) - The fastest man on the planet was disqualified today from the event he's dominated for three years, while the most unlikely runner on the planet advanced to the semis at today's track world championships. Usain Bolt's false start in the men's 100-meter final automatically booted him from the race under the sport's no-tolerance rule, giving fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake the win. "He's human, isn't he? I always knew he was human," Bolt's coach tells the AP . "He will pick himself up. He's a champion." More»

'It's all about fashion,' sprinter says of Puma deal

(NEWSER) - Usain Bolt has just signed the biggest sponsorship deal in track-and-field history—and one of the biggest in sports history, period. The deal extends Bolt’s long-standing relationship with Puma, which has sponsored him since he was 15. Puma hasn’t released the exact figures, but sources tell the Guardian that it’s somewhere in the vicinity of the $32.5 million soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo signed with Nike. More»

(NEWSER) - Usain Bolt doesn’t even bother running through the tape at full speed. By the end of his sprints—even his mind-boggling, record-breaking 200-meters in Berlin—he’s mugging for the cameras. “Every race he leaves us wondering, ‘How fast could this guy go?’” writes Michael Wilbon in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, he leaves us wondering something else too: “Is he clean?” More»

(NEWSER) - Jamaica's Usain Bolt shattered the world record for the 100-meter race today, shearing more off the previous best time—his own—than anyone in recorded history, reports the Chicago Tribune. With a 2 mph tailwind, the 22-year-old clocked in at just 9.58 seconds—0.11 seconds faster than the 9.69 record time he set at the 2008 Olympics. More»