How Fast Can a Man Run? ; He Was Already History's Fastest Man. But This Week Sprinter Usain Bolt Stunned the World by Reducing His Own Record to Dust. So Are There Any Limits to What the Human Body Can Achieve?

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THE question is, just how fast can he go? We asked this back in August last year when he smashed his own 100metres world record at the Beijing Olympics.

Then, he did it in 9.69seconds, but his insouciant, hands-aloft stroll over the finishing line made many suspect that there was more to go.

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How Fast Can a Man Run? ; He Was Already History's Fastest Man. But This Week Sprinter Usain Bolt Stunned the World by Reducing His Own Record to Dust. So Are There Any Limits to What the Human Body Can Achieve?

And on Sunday, a year to the day after setting that extraordinary record in China, Usain Bolt showed that there was - more than a tenth of a second, in fact. Now, if he could only sort out his dodgy start, he might be able to break the record once more.

By any measure, the Jamaican's 9.58sec performance in Berlin was almost unprecedented in athletics.

For years - decades, in fact - the 100m sprint time had been coming down, but in tiny increments: a hu...

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