Fastest Man on Earth ,Usain Bolt, Breaks Facebook Record

World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt has broken another record when fans on his facebook page reached a total of 1,779.701 (figures as of time of writing) making him one of the most popular athletes in number of supporters on perhaps the leading global networking platform.

Bolt now has over 375000 more fans than famous golfer Tiger Woods whose facebook page counts 1402568 followers.

Even if some tennis and football players remain hard to catch, with both Roger Federer and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo having more than 3 million followers, the current “ballon d'or” Barcelona star Lionel Messi is in reach of Bolt with 1,916.990 fans.

At 22 years of age, and after setting world records in both the 100m and 200m at both the Olympic Games in Beijing and the World Championships in Berlin, Bolt is now a happy “victim” of his own success and wherever he competes, records are expected to fall.

Attendance records were broken for Bolt's last appearances on a track respectively last weekend in Kingston when 54.310 viewers witnessed the fourth fastest 200 metres of all-time at 19.56 and the previous weekend in Philadelphia when Bolt anchored Jamaica's 4x100 with an 8.79 closing leg.

Bolt is next expected to compete on 19 May in Daegu, Korea the host of the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics.

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Usain Bolt triumph 200 meters race in Olympic final

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt ruined his period with victory in the 200 metres at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece on Sunday.

The Olympic and world champion was fast out of the bend as usual Sunday but relaxed toward the end, when he realized he would not be setting another world record. Wallace Spearmon of the United States was second in 20.21 and Brendan Christian of Antigua was third in 20.65.

The three-time world and Olympic winner clocked 19.68 seconds in a powerful triumph in front of Wallace Spearman of the United States (20.21) and Brendan Christian of Antigua (20.65).

Bolt was in supreme form once again as he coasted home in Greece. This was the most recent race of the season for Bolt, who said he will return to Jamaica to celebrate his world records in the 100 and 200 at last month's world championships.
World bronze medallist Jenny Meadows produced Britain's best performance with third place in the women's 800m.

Usain Bolt set new world record

Usain Bolt will be in quest of to complete the 12th IAAF World Championships run double when he runs in the 200 metres final at the Berlin Olympic Stadium today

Usain Bolt in the starting blocks before his 150 metres world top run of 14.35 seconds.

Bolt started the season competing over 400 metres in order to improve his speed, winning two races and registering 45.54 s in Kingston, and windy conditions gave him his first sub-10 second finish in the 100 m in March. In late April Bolt suffered minor leg injuries in a car crash. However, he quickly recovered following minor surgery and (after cancelling a track meet in Jamaica) he stated that he was fit to compete in the 150 metres street race at the Manchester Great City Games. Bolt won the race in 14.35 s, the fastest time ever recorded for 150 m. Despite not being at full fitness, he took the 100 and 200 m titles at the Jamaican national championships, with runs of 9.86 s (a world-leading time) and 20.25 s respectively. This meant he had qualified for both events at the 2009 World Championships. Rival Tyson Gay suggested that Bolt's 100 m record was within his grasp, but Bolt dismissed the claim and instead noted that he was more interested in Asafa Powell's return from injury. Bolt defied unfavourable conditions at the Athletissima meet in July, running 19.59 seconds into a 0.9 m/s headwind and rain, to record the fourth fastest time ever over 200 m, one hundredth off Gay's world-leading time.

At the 2009 World Championships in August, Bolt eased through the 100 m heats, clocking the fastest ever pre-final performance of 9.89 seconds. The final was the first time Bolt and Gay had met in the season, and the American ran 9.71 s, 0.02 s off Bolt's 9.69 s world record run in Beijing. However, Bolt finished some distance ahead of Gay, improving the world record to 9.58 s to win his first World Championship gold medal. Taking over a tenth of a second off the previous best mark, this was the largest ever margin of improvement in the 100 m world record since the beginning of electronic timing.

Usain Bolt Worlds Fastest Man set 100 Meters Running Record

Like lightning out of nowhere, Usain Bolt is now the world's fastest man. The Jamaican sprinter, who doesn't even consider the 100 meters his best race, set the world record Saturday night with a time of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix, .02 seconds faster than the old mark held by his countryman, Asafa Powell.

Bolt was using the 100 as "speed work" to get better for his favorite race, the 200, and also to avoid having to run the more grueling 400. Then, unexpectedly, he ran the world's second-fastest time a few weeks ago at 9.76.

Even with that, he said he wasn't sure if he would switch out the 400 for the 100 at the Beijing Olympics.

"I think that will change today," Bolt said. "It doesn't matter if I have the world record if I don't have the Olympic medal."

Springing from the starting block and unfurling his lanky frame — listed at 6-foot-4, but probably more like 6-5 and, either way, considered too tall for this kind of speed work — he created a big-time gap between himself and Tyson Gay at about the halfway point, then routed America's top sprinter to the finish line.

"I wasn't really looking for a world record, but it was there for the taking," Bolt said.

Gay finished in 9.85.

"Obviously, I have some work to do," Gay said. "Right now, it's hats off to Bolt. Today was his day."

As he crossed the finish line, Bolt spread his arms out wide and let out a yell. A few moments later, the 21-year-old from Kingston was hoisting the Jamaican flag and a crowd with several hundreds of Jamaican fans was going wild. Then, he kneeled down and posed next to the scoreboard that recorded the fastest time ever — "9.72."

"Just coming here, knowing a lot of Jamaicans were here giving me their support, it meant a lot," Bolt said. "I just wanted to give them what they wanted."

But who could have expected this?

Bolt has long been considered one of his country's top, up-and-coming runners, but his height and running style seemed to make him much more fit for powering through turns in the 200, the distance he considers his best, and persevering in the 400, which he doesn't love as much.

Like so many who compete in the 100, Bolt had lots of work to do with his push out of the blocks. In the leadup to the race, he said he doesn't consider himself a true pro at that yet. And after a bad false start by the field — the second gun didn't go off until the runners were 20 meters down the track — this simply didn't seem like a night for world records.

Or was it?

"I was glad for the first false start," Bolt said. "My first start wasn't that good. I knew if I got Tyson on the start, I'd get him."

Gay said he knew it was over after he saw Bolt push out.

"I honestly think we were on the same rhythm, except his stride pattern is a lot bigger," Gay said. "He was covering a lot more ground than I was."

"An awesome athlete," said Shawn Crawford, who finished sixth and witnessed history from two lanes inside of Bolt. "The time shows it."

This marked the first time the record had been set in the United States since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, when Donovan Bailey ran a 9.84.

A lot is often said about Olympic trials in the United States — that given the depth of the roster, it can be an even better meet than the actual Olympics. But suddenly the highlight of the pre-Olympic calendar could now be Jamaican nationals at the end of June, when Bolt and Powell should square off in the 100. Powell, who set the mark of 9.74 last September in Italy, is overcoming a chest injury but is expected to be healthy soon.

Also at Jamaican nationals will be Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won the women's 100 on Saturday in 10.91, the fastest time of 2008.

The fastest time ever, though, now belongs to Bolt, and it made a prophet out of Gay, who predicted that with himself, Bolt and Powell lining up against each other over these next few months, the record could go down, down, down.

The conditions were right.

The start of the meet was delayed by an hour because of threatening storms in the area. Then, about halfway though, a brief thunderstorm hit, cooling the track and leaving it with just the faintest sheen of glistening moisture before the last, most-anticipated, race of the night. The tailwind was measured at 1.7 meters-per-second, .3 under the limit at which a record can be set.

"To be honest, I knew the track was fast," Gay said. "I knew a 9.7 was possible."

After his victory, Bolt paraded around with the Jamaican flag, accepted a hug from Gay, soaked in some more applause.

"I always perform well in front of the Jamaican fans. They're so loud," he said.

Race organizers, knowing they'd get a big Jamaican fanbase out at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island, had scheduled a post-meet reggae concert for the crowd of about 6,000.

And what a perfect choice that was on this history making night.

Source : AP.