Winner of men's 100m final smashes world 100 metres record (spoiler alert)

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He shaved three hundreds of a second off his own record despite slowing down and looking all around before the finishing line.

Bolt, 21, who nearly did not run in the event because he considers himself better at 200 metres, recorded a time of 9.69 seconds. He would surely have done a time of around 9.6 seconds if he had pushed himself all the way to the line.

"I want to say, I came here to prove I am the best. I have trained for years for this and prepared for this. I'm just happy, I came here to prove that I'm the best in the world and I did that. I came here with a plan and I executed it," he said
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2570015/Usain-Bolt-smashes-world-100-metres-record-at-Beijing-Olympics.html