Jamaica's Usain Bolt completed his sprint double gold medal today in Beijing, winning the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds, a new world record.Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles won the silver. American Wallace Spearmon finished third but was disqualified for stepping out of his lane, so fourth-place finisher Shawn Crawford of the United States received the bronze medal. (UPDATE: Martina was also disqualified, so Crawford gets the silver and fifth-place finisher Walter Dix of the U.S. gets the bronze.)Bolt, who previously set a new world record of 9.69 seconds in the 100 meters, is the first athlete to win both the 100 and the 200 since Carl Lewis in 1984. Bolt is only 21 years old, and track experts are nearly unanimous in saying that a good coach could improve his technique. There's every reason to believe that he will be a dominant sprinter for years to come. He has the talent to become the greatest ever.Usain Bolt Wins Olympic 200 Meter Gold, Sets New World Record of 19.30 Seconds
Jamaica's Usain Bolt completed his sprint double gold medal today in Beijing, winning the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds, a new world record.Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles won the silver. American Wallace Spearmon finished third but was disqualified for stepping out of his lane, so fourth-place finisher Shawn Crawford of the United States received the bronze medal. (UPDATE: Martina was also disqualified, so Crawford gets the silver and fifth-place finisher Walter Dix of the U.S. gets the bronze.)Bolt, who previously set a new world record of 9.69 seconds in the 100 meters, is the first athlete to win both the 100 and the 200 since Carl Lewis in 1984. Bolt is only 21 years old, and track experts are nearly unanimous in saying that a good coach could improve his technique. There's every reason to believe that he will be a dominant sprinter for years to come. He has the talent to become the greatest ever.
Phelps
GLOWING from his record-breaking eighth Olympic gold medal win, the world's greatest swimmer just wants to give his mother a proper hug.
Colourful Display At Beijing Olympics
Fireworks explode over the National Stadium during the Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium on August 8 in Beijing.
Sight and Sound Behold at Beijing
Percussionists take part in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on August 8, 2008
Colourful Cultures At Beijing Olympics
Artists perform during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest", on August 8, 2008. The three-hour show at Beijing's iconic national stadium was set to see more than 15,000 performers showcase the nation's ancient history and its rise as a modern power.
Oksana Chusovitina
Gymnastics' grande dame, 33-year-old Oksana Chusovitina, a 1992 gold medalist, is beginning anew in Beijing after having competed once for the Unified Team cobbled together from the remnants of the Soviet Union and three times for her native Uzbekhistan.This will be Chusovitina's 5th Olympics--a record for a female gymnast--but her first for Germany, the country that took her in five years ago and provided medical assistance that saved her leukemia-stricken son, Alisher.Alisher is now a second-grader and a gymnast. His mother is still "the very best gymnast on the [German] team," according to German gymnastics official Gert-Peter Brueggemann.In this photo, Oksana Chusovitina of Germany celebrates after winning the women inividual all rounder competition of the German Artistic Gymnastics Championships at the Richard-Hartmann hall on June 7, 2008 in Chemnitz, Germany.
Dara Torres
Dara Torres, 41, is another woman who has already won four Olympic gold medals, yet continues to push herself. She will be the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics.Here Torres celebrates setting a US record time of 24.38 in the women's 50-meter freestyle semifinal at the US Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, July 5, 2008.
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