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Bolt’s burst into immortality

QUAZI ZULQUARNAIN ISLAM from London
If there had been any lingering doubts as to the greatness of Usain Bolt, the Jamaican silenced them onThursday night; literally.
Bolt sauntered over the finish line in the 200-metre final at London's Olympic Stadium ahead of his great friend and rival
Yohan Blake and he did so with a sly look at the cameras and a finger placed emphatically on his lips.
That gesture needed no translation but yet. Bolt provided
one.
“That was for all the doubters,” he said after becoming the first man in history to defend both the 100 and 200 metre double. “That was to tell them to stop talking, because I am a legend.”
Indeed, with this unique and unprecedented double, Bolt has just stepped into athletic stratosphere. It was also one of the few times on Thursday that Bolt's ubercool demeanour dissipated
enough to provide a shallow glimpse at the fire that burns inside him. It is this burning desire that has taken him where no sprinter has ever gone before.
Four years ago, in Beijing, Bolt bothered to tie his shoelaces for the 200-metre final. Here too, he took it seriously. He had to. Blake, who Bolt himself has anointed as his successor, was breathing down his back all the way. Bolt could not afford to let up.
“I know I run the corners better than him (Blake) so I just went around it really fast. I felt a slight strain in my side, so I kept looking at him to see if I was ahead.”
And he was, by just enough. Perhaps it was the strain that prevented him breaking the world record, or perhaps those days are behind Bolt. But 19.32sec is still equal to Michael Johnson's one-time record that was predicted to stand for decades. And Bolt wasn't even at a hundred percent. “I would like to think so (I am 100 percent] but I definitely don't feel it," said Bolt. “I am not 90 percent, but not 100 percent either," he admitted.
Even at 90 percent though, Bolt-mania is alive and kicking in London. There may have been no world records but not one of the 80,000 people lucky enough to have been at the stadium on Thursday night will have gone home with
anything other than a feeling of profound fulfilment.
This is because there is something childishly electrifying about watching Bolt, a feeling of pulsating excitement and thrill that you get only with certain sportsmen. For some that is Muhammad Ali, for others it is Diego Maradona or Michael Jordan. All the names were mentioned in the same breath as Bolt but he brushed aside the comparisons.
"That's for other people to decide,” he said. “But I am the best in my sport and they were the best in theirs," heconcluded.
It's not just that Bolt's sprints have managed to put the pane of man's physical achievement on a different scale. Bolt's records are quantum leaps in human achievement, in the truest sense of the word. Just consider that it took 40 years to go from Jimmy Hines' 9.94 to Asafa Powell's 9.74. And then Bolt somehow, someway managed to fast-forward it down to the 9.58 it stands at now.
But even that is not the whole story. For with Bolt, there is the feeling of song and dance be it in the bunny ears that he pulls before the race or the Queen Elizabeth wave he so specifically tailored for this auspicious occasion. With Bolt there is the feeling of watching a sportsman compete in pure, unadulterated freedom, a facet long since lost to the dreary professionalism of modern sport. On Thursday, before the race. Bolt spoke to a female volunteerwho looked particularly wired.
“Are you nervous?" asked Bolt. She nodded. “Why?" asked the man who was just minutes from taking part in the race that would seal his legacy. “Because I am so excited,” said the volunteer.
But Bolt was neither nervous nor excited. For him, this was just another race at the Jamaican Hack Club with his mates Blake and
Warren Weir. The 80,000 baying crowd were not fear, but rather motivation. And so it proved as the three finished 1-2-3 to make Jamaica only the second nation ever to complete a track and field clean sweep.
After the race, Bolt narrated the story of how he had told Blake in 2010 that the young man had just come at the wrong time.
“1 told him, Yohan, you have come at the wrong time, because the next two years, the next two years is my time.”
It certainly has been.
On his twitter profile, Bolt calls himself, 'the most naturally gifted athlete the world has ever seen.' After his exploits on Thursday night, you will be hard-pressed to find anyone in the world who would ever disagree.