Usain St. Leo Bolt has become a living legend in the world of track and field competitions. He has created a number of milestones in the track and field competitions and for his achievements, the Jamaican sprinter is known as Lightning Bolt.
Usain St. Leo Bolt has become a living legend in the world of track and field competitions. He has created a number of milestones in the track and field competitions and for his achievements, the Jamaican sprinter is known as Lightning Bolt. Born on 21 August 1986 in Jamaica, he is the World record and Olympic record holder in the 100 m and 200 m events.
Recently he has won the 100 meters gold in the 2012 London Olympic, the much-hyped race to be the fastest man of the world with a time of 9.63 seconds. He has set a new Olympic record for 100 m race and also defended his gold won the last Beijing Olympic. He has become the first man who defended his Olympic sprint title since Carl Lewis of US in 1988. Apart from this, Bolt is the first man to win three sprinting events at a single Olympic since Carl Lewis in 1984. He has another milestone in his career as he is the first man who set world records in all three events in a single Olympic.
In 2009 World cup Championships he won 100 m race in only 9.58 seconds and 200 m in just 19.19 seconds and created world records in both the events.
Bolt has another significant achievement in his career as he is one of only eight athletes of the world who has won world championships at the youth, junior and senior level of any athletic level. This shows that he was full of energy and enthusiasm from his early days, which is, continue till the date.
It is interesting that Usain Bolt was initially interested in Cricket, as the Jamaica has the environment for the same. He was interested in fast bowling and he accepts the facts that if he were not a sprinter, certainly he would be a fast bowler. He is also interested in Football and he has expressed for the game earlier. He is found of dancing and music in his leisure hour.
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Washington, June 19 (ANI): Astrophysicists from the Complutense University of Madrid have confirmed that Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70 km, has an orbit similar to that of Uranus and takes the same amount of time to orbit the Sun.
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Melbourne, June 19 (ANI): University of Toronto scientists have found pockets of water that had been sitting 2.4 kilometres underneath the Earth's surface for more than a billion years.
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Sydney, June 18 (IANS) Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before.
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Washington, June 18 (ANI): European Space Agency's billion-euro Herschel space telescope has been switched off.
Beijing, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Chinese scientists have once again built the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second, surpassing the U.S. Titan supercomputer.
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Washington, June 17 (ANI): A new project is asking people having an internet connection to help beam messages into outer space in an attempt to make our presence in the universe known.
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Monaco, June 16 (IANS/CMC) The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) has annulled the joint 100 metres junior world record of 10.01 seconds clocked by Japanese sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu.
London, June 16 (ANI): In a major drug scandal, a female teammate of Jamaican sprinting star Usain Bolt is reportedly facing a ban from the sport after a failed dope test.
Washington, June 15 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the ocean the Titanic sailed through just over 100 years ago was very different from the one we swim in today.
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Washington, June 12 (ANI): Data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have shown that lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.
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New Delhi, June 12 (ANI): Petroleum Minister Dr. M. Veerappa Moily has said that technology and capital intensive interventions have the potential to give new lease of life to the matured fields and improving recovery factor.
Sydney, June 12 (ANI): Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has challenged potential rivals at August's World Athletics Championships, saying that his 'eyes are on the prize' despite an indifferent form early this season.
Washington, June 11 (ANI): New images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the plain-looking Saturn moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean.
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Washington, June 11 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite.
Washington, June 10 (ANI): A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder has suggested that a chemical reaction between iron-containing minerals and water may produce enough hydrogen "food" to sustain microbial communities living in pores and cracks within the enormous volume of rock below the ocean floor and parts of the continents.
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Trelawny (Jamaica), June 8 (IANS/CMC) Wellesly Bolt, the father of sprint legend Usain Bolt, was robbed of cash amounting to a little less than half a million Jamaican dollars.
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Paris, June 7 (IANS) Multi-Olympic champions Usain Bolt and former Spanish tennis star Arantxa Sánchez Vicario will award the trophies to the men's and women's singles champions of French Open tennis.
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London, June 7 (ANI): A former top government official has claimed that aliens do exist and are living among us.
Washington, June 7 (ANI): Stanford scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami, and suggested that the technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning system for massive tsunamis.
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Washington, June 7 (ANI): Scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered that the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts, eliminating a significant discrepancy that troubled physicists for two decades.
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New Delhi, June 6 (ANI): India's services sector in May grew at its fastest pace in three months, raising hopes of a recovery in a weak economy.
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Washington, June 4 (ANI): Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used the Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies.
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) Tata Communications has added a state-of-the-art "virtual meeting" telepresence suite to its global network in downtown Shanghai. It has been launched in partnership with China Mobile and JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai, the company said here in a statement Tuesday.
Washington, June 4 (ANI): A highly unusual dwarf star and its powerful flares, is being studied, which may hold clues to the likelihood of life on other planets as well as to the behavior of our Sun.
Washington, June 4 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
London, June 4 (IANS/CMC) Anti-drugs campaigners have blasted Olympic sprint king Usain Bolt for a picture of a t-shirt posted on the internet which appeared to be promoting the use of Cannabis.
New Delhi, June 4 (ANI): An Earth Anthem, written and produced by poet-diplomat Abhay Kumar was released by Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Information Technology and Law and Justice, at a function organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations in New Delhi.
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Vatican City, June 4 (IANS/AKI) Catholics should emulate the Virgin Mary's ability to take decisions by trusting god, according to Pope Francis.
Patna, June 3 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leaders are upbeat with an Assocham the report claiming that Bihar is growing at a faster rate than Gujarat.
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New York, Jun. 3 (ANI): 'Fast and Furious 6' has occupied the top spot at the box office for the second consecutive weekend.
Mumbai, June 2 (IANS) Hollywood director M. Night Shyamalan, who is ready with his latest film "After Earth", praises the cast of Will Smith and his son Jaden and says the two are "very professional" and were "meticulous on the shoot".
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) India is in the process of acquiring an icebreaker for a whopping Rs.800 crore ($144 million) for conducting scientific and business exploration in the polar regions.
Washington, June 2 (ANI): What if an asteroid were headed straight for Earth?
Silverstone, June 1 (IANS) India's top racing driver Narain Karthikeyan claimed pole position ahead of the Auto GP World Series round four at the Silverstone Circuit here.
Washington, June 1 (ANI): Scientists have revealed that it took 13 years for the coral reef system in Brazil to recover after the catastrophic El Nino event of 1997-98.
Ottawa, June 1 (IANS) Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP), driven by goods exports, expanded 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the fastest pace in one and a half years, Statistics Canada announced here.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): United Nations (UN) has chalked out roadmaps to combat world's major challenges, especially poverty and plans to eradicate extreme poverty in all countries by 2030.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): The number of people who don't have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation is almost twice the previous estimate, according to American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Gemini Observatory has taken a new series of images that shows Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder has suggested that a chemical reaction between iron-containing minerals and water may produce enough hydrogen "food" to sustain microbial communities living in pores and cracks within the enormous volume of rock below the ocean floor and parts of the continents.
Beijing, May 31 (Xinhua-ANI): Tornadoes hit the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, injuring at least nine people, U.S. media reported.
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Sydney, May 31 (IANS) The similarity of Australia's Red Centre with Mars geologically may help explain why the country holds the world's largest deposits of opal, a gemstone, researches at the University of Sydney have said.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Rocks analyzed by NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover team have provided solid evidence that Mars had rivers or streams.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future.
Johannesburg, May 30 (ANI): Bangkok, the transport hub has been touted as the first Asian city to be the world's most popular air travel destination according to a ranking by the MasterCard Index of Global Destination Cities.
