Usain Bolt is officially ridiculous

As if Beijing wasn’t enough proof.  He ran 19.59s in the 200m in the rain.  A massive victory too.

From Science of Sport:

The men’s 100m was won in 10.07s - a relatively slow time. The women’s 100m was taken in 11.03 - good, but not spectacular. It was not a fast night for sprinting, and quality athletes all seemed down by a couple of percent on their normal times. And when the wind picked up, Bolt was faced with a headwind, it would have been quite acceptable to run anything around 20 seconds.

But Bolt unleashed a 19.59s time, which is absolutely extra-ordinary, running into a headwind of 0.9m/s in wet conditions. His margin of victory was 0.82 seconds, over LaShawn Merrit, the Olympic 400m champion, with other Olympic finallists (medallists among them) trailing even further behind.