19.19! Usain Bolt's untouchable 200m world record | NBC Sports

how much motivation does he have to go after this record the championship record is 19.79 by michael johnson from gothenburg back in 95. that is almost certainly gone that has about another five minutes left of life but i have to think we're going to see a great time maybe second or third best all time at 200 meters but 19-3 is such a great performance gudyev is in lane one and he has been a real surprise 19 years old but 20.04 seconds david alerted in france in lane two and he's done the best of all the french members of this 200 meter team he's the only one to make the final despite being only third at the french national championships in lane three steve mullins of jamaica very dangerous for a medal he's knocking on the door 101 and 20.01 this year you see him being relaxed he can see everyone that makes him dangerous and the real threat to mount the podium for jamaica [Applause] in lane four wallace spearman the two-time world championship medalist a bronze and a silver and he told us yesterday anything he gets this year he considers a blessing because he's coming off of surgery he has not had the kind of year that he is used to but if he can run this turn and put himself close to the leaders he certainly has a chance at mining the podium as well bolton lane five seems like a long time ago and he was second to tyson gay at the world championships in 07. and the flash bulbs explode behind him he knows it's prime time this is when he shows up here's how you're gonna know if he's on pace if he comes off of this turn and he's five or four meters ahead i think he's gonna go for it but as i said long shot tonight to get that record and he said come get me and he's the reason there are 70 000 or so in the stands tonight here in lane six is alonso edward of panama probably the best lane draw that this guy could have gotten he is also a threat to be on that podium charles clark of the us is in lane seven the ncaa champion from florida state and when he made this team a lot of people thought that he would not be a guaranteed finalist but he has come here and made the final good lane draw for him on the outside as well and in the extreme outside lane lane eight is sean crawford the 2004 olympic gold medalist at 200. and whether or not he knows it he's the designated rabbit tonight but the rabbit can hang on this young man has great strength in the final hundred and he's a great turn runner that makes him a real threat to get on the podium as well [Music] usain bolt making the same demonstrations that he did before the hundred will we see tonight the first sub 19.3 performance ever set it's a fair start and bolt wastes no time seizes the lead immediately as they come to the top of the home straight away here they come to the line to the home straight away and usain bolt has the lead mullings is their second sean crawford on the outside but it's again no contest no contest lightning strikes twice as he crosses the finish line oh my god he's got it 19.20 another world record for usain bolt that means his last five championship races have all been gold medal world record okay tom i saw the first four coming this might be the biggest and greatest world record that he has set because 19.30 i think is the best performance that he has had up until his 9 58. how does he do it a 10th has been taken off of the 200 meter world record and usain bolt has now broken his fifth world record in 12 months and rounded down it's 1919 so he's gone all the way past all the 19 threes all the way past all the nineteen twos and becomes the first man to break 19-3 and the first man to break 19-2 no tyson gay no real motivation nobody close and yet still he came out here and ran as hard as i have seen him run in a year 19.20 he made a liar out of me tonight because i had no idea how he could find that sort of performance this year remember tom car accident toe injury his coach said he's ready for the double but he did not think that he'd be able to run this kind of time simply because his turns have been suspect this year because he missed a lot of time when he had that injury not being able to practice on the turn it did not matter and the planet celebrates again as lightning bolt from trelawney in jamaica runs 19.19 and what must michael johnson be thinking 19.32 seemed unreachable and now both has taken 13 hundredths of a second off of the great michael johnson's time alonzo edward of panama was second while a spearman gets to bronze sean crawford was fourth [Applause] four men break 19.90 and that is a new record that has never happened before in world or olympic world championship or olympic history remember the story about those special shoes the color of jamaican yams he said that's what gives him his superpowers the jamaican yams well that's what i get for doubting the lightning bolt i just could not see how he was going to piece that together 19.19 there's a lot of debate as to whether later on in his career tom he can really approach that 19 second barrier which was just unheard of and unthought of just about 10 years ago when you see this performance with no tyson gay around and no real challengers and the wind is not really significant in this race you have to think he's got a real chance at it especially if he starts to get stronger by running some more 400 meter dashes mascot is going to race him and this mascot has featured very very prominently and that's about the only time he's lost since he's been in berlin the mascot beats him halfway down the track so you're saying help us understand 1919 that's 11 100 off your world record in beijing how does this happen well it's all about hard training and dedication for me i know i have come out and do every night so i come out here focused and ready as i said i was tired i'm tired as hell no but uh i've got the work done so i'm okay something about these stages the world championships and the olympics that you seem to embrace and enjoy describe the fun that you're having doing all this i keep telling people uh this is what we work to me my coach who works for the championships we don't worry about anything else even if i get beaten in the season it doesn't matter because this is where it matters so for me i worked all all the championships all the time so this is where we worked the peak at so andrew and do you understand the history you're making you've won five world records in your last five championship races but uh i never know this but i guess it does great things and by the way happy birthday tomorrow this is one heck of a present 23 right yeah yeah definitely thanks all right you saying thank you you

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 09 2020