Aths: Bolt clocks 9.76 seconds in 100 metres

From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: May 4, 2008 | Copyright information


AAP Sports News (Australia)

05-04-2008

Aths: Bolt clocks 9.76 seconds in 100 metres

By Horace Helps

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 3 Reuters - Jamaican Usain Bolt ran the second fastest 100m
ever when he clocked 9.76 seconds at the Jamaican International Invitational today.

Bolt's time was just two hundredths of a second slower than the world record of 9.74
set last year by his compatriot Asafa Powell.

"It was a good time ...

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