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Who says lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice?
For the second time in five days, the remarkable Jamaican sprinter Usain "Lightning" Bolt lived up to his nickname by breaking – make that, destroying – his own record at the World Championships being held in Berlin.
On Sunday, he shattered the world mark in the 100 meters with a time of 9.58. Yesterday, on the same track, he again clipped .11 seconds off the global standard in the 200 with a clocking of 19.19.
Today, Bolt celebrates his 23 birthday having set world marks in each of his last major title competitions, going back to last summer's Olympic Games in Beijing.
Consider that most sprinters hit their peak in the their late 20s. Scarier still is that the 6-foot-5 Bolt is just beginning to master the art of getting out of the starting blocks.
The other big story of the World Championships is the drama surrounding an 18-year-old from South Africa who is being investigated by the sport's international governing body on whether she meets the requirements to compete as a woman.
Caster Semenya easily won the 800 earlier this week. As noted by an IAAF spokesman, "this is a medical issue, not an issue of cheating."
The organization is awaiting the results of varied and complex tests to determine the teenager's gender, although her father and grandmother insist she is physically a woman.
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