Friday, 10 May 2013

Is This The Japanese Usain Bolt?

They're saying that Yoshihide Kiryu, a high school student from Kyoto, Japan, is the fastest 17-year-old on the planet, and looking at this I don't doubt it. Kiryu, who broke world youth 100-meter record twice last year as a 16-year-old, tied the junior world record in that event on April 29 by running a 10.01 at the Mikio Oda Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan. Yahoo Sports:

Kiryu's performance late last month tied Trinidad and Tobago's Darrel Brown — who won four silver medals at the World Championships from 2001-09 — and American Jeff Demps — a 4×100-meter silver medalist at last summer's London Olympics and a member of the New England Patriots this past NFL season. They were a year older than Kiryu when they recorded their 10.01-second times.

Next targets: the Japanese national record of 10.00 seconds, set by Koji Ito in 1998. And then — why not? — Usain Bolt's 100-meter world record of 9.58 seconds, set in 2009.

Holly MacKenzie Not that kind. RT @yogadelicRN: There might be another sport w a postseason going on right now @stackmack What kinda Canadian girl are you?

keithlaw That's in the 31st Amendment RT @brianmctaggart: Porter says if there's a pinch hitter, you have a right to bring in another pitcher.

SportsCenter Angels win a strange game over Astros, 6-5. The victory nullified a protest lodged by LA manager Mike Scioscia » http://t.co/vkV9LrlDr9

Holly MacKenzie I...think I'm doing this wrong. Tonight was the night I was supposed to go out, probably. Oops.

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