Track legend and nine-time world champ Michael Johnson doesn’t seem to be too terribly upset about Usain Bolt breaking his 200m record, and thinks the Jamaican sprinter’s best races are still yet to come.
“I know for a fact that he can run faster,” Johnson said earlier this week. “Whether he will or not is another question. But I know that he can.
“In analyzing him as an athlete and looking at his races and doing some bio-mechanical analysis on him … he could run faster.”
Bolt bested Johnson’s seemingly unbeatable world record mark of 19.32-seconds from Atlanta at the Beijing Games, then Bolt shattered his own mark by more than a tenth of a second at the 2009 world championships in Berlin.
But while the Jamaican star became the first man to repeat as 100m and 200m champ last summer, he was only able to equal Johnson’s 200m mark from 1996. Of course, no one has come close to Johnson’s 400m record, set in 1999, with London champ Kirani James finishing more than seven-tenths off the pace.
