Usain St. Leo Bolt Research Paper

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Usain Bolt a Jamaican sprinter, was born August 21, 1986, he is the fastest man alive. Bolt is unusually tall (6 ft. 5 in) for his sport. Usain St. Leo Bolt. He won the gold medal for the 200-m sprint at the 2002 world junior championships and then broke the record he had set at the nest two world juniors. Usain St. Leo Bolt Recovering from injury, he did poorly in the 2004 Olympics, but won the silver in the 100-m and 200-m at the 2007 world championships and ran a record 100-m sprint in 2008 Usain St. Leo Bolt. Usain Bolt had serval major accomplishments throughout his career in track. Usain St. Leo Bolt
At the 2008 Olympic, Bolt won gold in all the events he entered, the 100-m and 200-m sprints and the 4 x 100-m relay; he repeated this feat at the 2012 games. Usain St. Leo Bolt He was the first Olympic athlete to set world records in all these events, and broke his 2008 100-m and 200-m records at the 2009 world championships. Usain St. Leo Bolt In the 2013 Moscow games, Bolt won gold in the 100-m, 200-m, and 4 x 100-m races, giving him record cumulative total of eight golds and two silvers in the world track-and-field championships. Usain St. Leo Bolt
Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men’s 100m ahead of United States’ at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing on Aug.
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Casert, Raf. "Usain Bolt." Web. 15 Dec. 2015. Justin had been unbeaten for two years as Usain struggled with injury. Casert, Raf. "Usain Bolt." Web. 15 Dec. 2015. Usain Bolt, winner of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic golds in the 100, on Sunday beating the American Justin Gatlin, who took the event at the 2004 Games in Athens, by one one-hundredths of a second at the Bird’s nest in Beijing, site of Bolt’s word record setting performance at the 2008 Olympics. "Usain Bolt Makes Olympic-Sized Statement At Worlds." Time. Time. Web. 15 Dec.

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