Tuesday, June 7, 2011








Here are some interesting facts about Usain Bolt!




•His homeland, Trewalny, produced many world class track and field athletes;




•Usain Bolt’s first sport was cricket:




•Usain Bolt is the youngest ever gold medalist of the World Junior Championship, wins the 200m at age of 15;



•Usain Bolt is the first and the only junior athlete to break sub 20 seconds in 200 metres;



•Usain Bolt's nickname is 'Lightning Bolt’




•Usain Bolt became the first to holds the World records, World Championship records and Olympic Games records at all-three sprint events (100 , 200 and 4x100) at the same time;



•Usain Bolt improved his annual 100m time from 10.03 to 9.69s at Beijing Olympics where he set not only without a favorable wind (0.0ms) and a slow reaction time (0.165s) but also with a celebration at the last 20 metres which significantly slowed him down and his shoelace was untied.






Twitter! On Twitter, Usain Bolt Twits about his live and places he travels to as well as races that he will attend.




"Usain Bolt wins 100m in Rome – Video: Usain Bolt has run 9.91 seconds to defeat rival Asafa Powell on the line a... http://bit.ly/lTexHX" Twitter, May 26.

http://twitter.com/#!/usain_bolt - Here is his Twitter account.