I caught this story over on The Fader about Usain Bolt adopting a baby cheetah while in Kenya. Then check Usain sorta racing a cheetah…

The Lightning has been taking a break from JA to hang out in Kenya for a few days, where he has “already impressed local children with his football skills, and become an honorary Maasai warrior,” according to the BBC, further proving he is our second most admired jedi knight/sensai/dream date slightly after Barack Obama. But Bolt’s moved up like 18 notches on our list after his recent adoption of A. Baby. Cheetah… as part of a conservation effort focusing on sustaining the environment in Africa via the Long Run, a new campaign he is launching. Appropriately, he christened the cheetah “Lightning Bolt,” and we immediately began singing the Vybz Kartel verse “BOLT / LIGHTNING BOLT,”

BBCCaribbean.com has put together a nice summary of the dominance of Caribbean teams at this year’s Track & Field championships. Check out an excerpt below…

…The peerless Bolt, who turned 23 years old on Friday, broke both his individual world records - in the 100 and 200 metres - and left the world grasping and gasping for superlatives as attention turned rightly to Jamaican performances on the track and field.

But this was no one man-show as, after six days of this nine-day event, Jamaica led the gold-medal count with five.

That was one more than the United States, two of whose winners have come from Caribbean-born athletes…

For the full story, click here: The Caribbean Party in Berlin.

All even more fitting, since the Jamaican men just wrapped up another gold in the 4×100 final. Check the video after the jump…

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Another day, another record. Must be nice being that fast…check out the video below…

Check the full story here: Bolt gets gold, another record in 200 at worlds.

After Bolt destroyed his previous world record in Berlin Vybz Kartel soon after created a tribute for him. I don’t know what’s faster Jamaican runners or Jamaican Dancehall artists.

Download here

9.58….going into a headwind? The dude is like a video game or something. Check out the video below if you haven’t caught it already…

Check out the full story here: Bolt lowers 100-meter mark to 9.58 (ESPN.com).

Fernando Garcia-Guereta covered a documentary on Jamaican runners just before the Olympics in 08. Here is a snippet of the article that the Jamaican Gleaner did on “Why do Jamaicans Run So Fast?”…

With a ‘little feeling’ that something big was going to happen at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Spanish music producer Fernando Garcia-Guereta shifted gears from the studio and on to the track with his debut documentary Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?

Filming months before the Olympics and continuing the journey from Beijing and back, the 61-minute documentary is the only non-American film nominated at this year’s American Black Film Festival.

via Seen and Jamaican Gleaner

If you follow Usain Bolt then its no surprise that the track star likes to dance. Bolt put out a challenge for the best dancers to come up with some moves, make a video and he will judge. The winner gets to fly out to London and join him for his July 24th competition (if you win this competition cause of my post you me a ticket).

Check for more details at loveathletics09.co.uk

Usain Bolt was in Manchester, England over the weekend as he prepared for his 150m race. While in Manchester he meet with the Manchester United Football Club before Man U clinched the Preimere League Title (I can’t say I was feeling that). In any case check out the footage from the weekend and the post race footage where Bolt set another record on Sunday.

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The BBC did a series of interviews with Usain Bolt and his family to get a sense of the athletes life off the track.
These videos show the other side of the world class runner. Check’em out…

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BBCCaribbean.com has put together a nice feature on the up-and-coming track atheletes in Jamaica. Check out the full story at the link below…

image via puma running on Flickr.