9.58secs: Usain Bolt smashes 100m world record to claim Gold 

"Usain Bolt has broken the 100m world record with a time of 9.58sec in the final of the World Athletics Championships. By an amazing eleven hundredths of a second, the Jamaican almost effortlessly broke his own time of 9.69sec to stun the Berlin crowd."

"> \"I was feeling good after the semis. I knew it was going to be a great race and I executed it. It's a great time, a great feeling, I feel good in myself and I knew I could do it.”\n\n##### Usain Bolt"

"Any hopes his main rivals, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, who finished second and third respectively, might have had of beating Bolt were swiftly over, as the Olympic champion simply blew the competition out of the water. Bolt was quickly out of the blocks to leave the other competitors behind, intent on making yet more sporting history."

"> \"He is an icon. He is the best sprinter of all time.”\n\n##### Olympic President Jacques Rogge"

"Bolt had taken it easy in the semi-final, jogging to victory in an apparent attempt to save himself for a big effort in the main event. If that was his plan, it was executed with perfection.\n\n \n\nHe was even guilty of a false start in the semi-final, meaning that anyone who committed a similar offence afterwards would be automatically disqualified. Bolt shrugged the delays off to storm out of the blocks, before easing down to a time of 9.89sec.\n\n \n\nThat indicated something special could be on the cards for the final, and Bolt powered forward at the start, seizing control of the race after just 30m. It was only a matter of time before he broke the record, Bolt sending the crowd in Berlin's Olympic Stadium wild as he streaked across the line."