Put him in an Olympic stadium or a shopping street in the centre of Manchester and the result is the same: total annihilation.
The frightening thing is that the big Jamaican, who pushed back the boundaries of possibility last summer when he won three gold medals in world record time in Beijing, insists he is still only 70 per cent fit following an interrupted winter and the loss of nine days' training after his car crash last month.
His winning time in Sunday's rarely run 150 metres was an eye-popping 14.35sec, smashing the previous best-known time for the distance of Canada's Donovan Bailey - 14.99sec run on bend against Michael Johnson in 1997.
Britain's Marlon Devonish was a distant second in 15.07sec. He admitted Bolt was in "a league of his own".
Bolt's time will now be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations as an official 'world best', though it is his 100m split-time that will send shockwaves across the world - 9.90sec on a rain-soaked track in temperatures more common to February than mid-May.
I heard the pre-race interview with him on BBC radio 5 and they asked him if he'd like to go into the NFL when he retired and he said he'd rather go sit on the beach than get beat up playing football. Can't say that I blame him really.
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I heard the pre-race interview with him on BBC radio 5 and they asked him if he'd like to go into the NFL when he retired and he said he'd rather go sit on the beach than get beat up playing football. Can't say that I blame him really.
Ha! Yeah that would probably be my answer too if I could make millions running 100 meters at a time.
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