Usain Bolt sets sights on 200m record after smashing 100m world best

Usain Bolt is already plotting his next assault on athletics lore here in Berlin's Olympiastadion as he promises to do everything in his unreal powers to rewrite his 200 metres world record in the same fashion he obliterated his 100 metres mark.

As athletics was still rubbing its eyes at the most startling revision ever of the blue riband world record, following Bolt's 9.58sec triumph at the world championships, the great man himself was trying to play down the prospect that the same fate could now befall his half-lap record in Thursday's final.

Bolt said that after slicing an unprecedented 0.11sec off the 100m time he had exactly a year earlier, he doubted that he could now come out and repeat the same world record double of Beijing by lowering his 200m mark of 19.30sec.

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