Breaking the speed limit? - FRANCE 24

Latest update: 19/08/2009

- Athletics World Championships - sport - Usain Bolt

Breaking the speed limit?

The Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, appeared to defy nature on Sunday night as he set another world record time of 9.58 seconds in Berlin. How much faster can he, and the human race in general, possibly go?

With Jean Durry, writer and Sport historian

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