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Bolt demolishes world record in 200

Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates setting a new World Record as he wins the men's 200 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

By PHILIP HERSH Chicago Tribune
Published: 8/21/2009 3:35 AM
Last Modified: 8/21/2009 8:38 AM

BERLIN — As they passed time before the start of the 200 meters, Usain Bolt feigned a jab to the jaw of U.S. sprinter Wallace Spearmon, who ducked it with a little movement of his head.

If only it were that easy to get away from Bolt's punch on the track.

Like everyone else, Spearmon is nothing more than a sparring partner, real or pantomimed, for the Jamaican who is knocking out rivals, world records and concepts of human limits as if they were so many palookas.

By setting a world record of 19.19 seconds in Thursday's 200-meter final at the World Championships, Bolt took the sport into new territory, where a single sprinter is light years rather than hundredths of a second ahead of the past and the present.

Beginning with his winning time of 9.58 in the 100 meters Sunday, Bolt has taken off 0.11 of a second from each of the already startling world records he set at the 2008 Olympics.

No one in 88 years had lowered the 100 mark by more.

He won the 200 meters by 0.62 of a second over Alonso Edward of Panama (19.81), with Spearmon third in 19.85. Defending 200 champion Tyson Gay, beaten soundly by Bolt in the 100, had skipped the longer race because of a lingering groin problem. By PHILIP HERSH Chicago Tribune

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