Tripple Tripple to Usain Bolt

The Jamaican's 4 x 100 meter man relay team broke a 16 years old world record previously held by Carl Lewis and his fellow American team mates.

The new world record made at the Bird Nest Stadium at Beijing Olympic yesterday on August 22 was 37.1 second slashing the previous record by a hefty 0.3 second.

The victory is even more special to Usain Bolt who ran the third leg, it is a tripple-tripple to him. ( see the earlier post).

Jamaica's 6 gold from the track events with just 2.8 million population makes this small island country really extraordinary.

Is it simply fortuitous to have all the very best athletes in a generation? The answer is perhaps not as simple.

It is perhaps a combination of gene, sporting science and determination (whether inspired by central planning or market forces)

Bolt bolted with a double-double

Usain Bolt, both literally and figuratively, bolted with with two world records at the Beijing Olympic Game - a 9.69 sec for 100 meter on August 16 and 19.3 for 200 meter yesterday, on August 20.

This is what I call a double-double victory if Carl Lewis's victory in the same two events at the 1984 Los Angeles game is called a double victory

Judging from Bolt's world record breaking 100 meter run, it won't be long for him to set another new world record in this track event.

The sports has been tarnished by doping scandals especially after the infamous Ben Johnson's saga at the 1988 Seoul Olympic.

It is therefore most remarkable that Usain Bolt's whose sensational victories are apparently clean. Bolt cleared 4 doping test in the last one month.

It maybe early but not wrong to predict that the world at large will remember Beijing Olympic fondly of Usain Bolt's prowess in the track, in additional to Michael's Phelp's 8 golds in the swimming event and the overall China's dominance in the medal tally.