Absolutely staggering performance. He just toyed with the limits of our belief. If you are curious to know how fast he might have gone if he had not stopped sprinting near the end of last 10m in last year’s Olympics now have your answer.This race proved human could run even faster.
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Hippopotamusly incridable and elephantastically gigantic!
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\"In this game, there is no pretending, no mercy, no second chance....in the middle of this huge arena he is on trial, one against eleven, with no one to protect him.....cricket is not a game, it is the truth of life\"
-- J.M.Coetzee, In Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life
When I was really small, I loved the Pakistan cricket team. Waqar Younis was one of the greatest bowlers ever, and I was a bowler so I really enjoyed watching him. I was a big fan until I got older, when I noticed that I should actually support my home team...when I was little, it was all about Pakistan.
The world's fastest man, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, on his first love in cricket - Pakistan and everything Pakistani
Aug 19, 2009
From cricinfo.
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Screw the IPL, I'm going to the MLC!
I think the criticism had to do with our history with Pakistan as a nation. I'm not saying it was valid and neither am I saying it was unwarranted. After all, there's no right or wrong, black or white. Everything's either red, blue, yellow or one of 6 billion shades of any of the three.
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Screw the IPL, I'm going to the MLC!
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You only play good cricket when you win/draw matches.
I am with Bangladesh, whether they win or lose . http://twitter.com/BanglaCricket
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Reason: typo. thanks T_E :)
Originally Posted by imtiaz82
Unbelievable.. I am glad to live in a time with champions like Bolt and Michael Phelps. Some of these recoreds may very well last for few decades!
bolt, phelps, tiger woods, roger federer. many sporting greats this era, it is surely a great time to be alive.
Originally Posted by Gowza
bolt, phelps, tiger woods, roger federer. many sporting greats this era, it is surely a great time to be alive.
Hmm, Bolt maight as well be the Donald Bradman of Athletics. About Phelps, I'm not so sure, there was Thorpedo and e faded gradually. Tiger woods would be in the "greatest" league. Roger Federer is also exceptional, the greatest up to now, but he is not inhuman like Bolt or Don or Woods. Someone might pass his achievements one day.
Come to think of it, people around 1910-50 had Babe Ruth and Sir Don from the sporting greatests. Then came a brief lull, but Ali was more than enough for the ensuing period, I'd go on and say he is still the greatest personality sports has produced. 1980-90, we had Navratilova and Graf and Sena. Pete Sampras was thought to be the greatest in 2000, But Fed has quashed that. Lara, Tendulkar, Warne and Murali are the greats in cricket who are not going to be replaced anytime soon. Maybe in Warne, Murali we had seen the greatest spinners cricket will ever produce, no one in the new generation seem to be able to reach their heights.
But Bolt is just so much above the league, he has already become the greatest sprinter in my book.
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“Actually, when I was really small I loved the Pakistan cricket team. Waqar Younis was one of the greatest bowlers ever, and I was a bowler so I really enjoyed watching him. I was a big Pakistan fan until I got older, when I noticed that I should actually support my home team.”
But what if Pakistan had played the Windies?
“I would still have supported Pakistan, that’s what I’m saying – when I was little, it was all about Pakistan.”
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