If you want to see the photos, go to:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/sports/global/17track.html?_r=1&hp

Here is the full story from the NY Times(without photos):

Bolt Shatters 100-Meter World Record

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
Published: August 16, 2009

BERLIN — All those curious to know just how fast Usain Bolt might have gone if he had not stopped sprinting near the end of last year’s world-record run at the Olympics now have their answer.

Bolt pushed himself from start to finish on Sunday night, and the result was a stunning time of 9.58 seconds in the men’s 100-meter final at the track and field world championships. His time was eleven-hundredths of a second better than his already phenomenal world-record run of 9.69 in Beijing.

Tyson Gay, the understated American who was considered Bolt’s biggest threat here, ran the race of his life, setting a personal best and national record of 9.71. But it was not enough as Bolt got off to a fine start by his standards in Lane 4, kept a slight edge on Gay through 70 meters and then built on it through the finish line with his eyes darting right toward Gay’s lane and then left toward the trackside clock as his long legs kept pumping.

“I put everything into it, but I came in second,” Gay said. “I can definitely run faster.”

Bolt, still just 22 years old, won by about the length of one of his very long strides, and he did not stop striding after the finish. Aware of his time, he slapped his chest and loped 100 more meters around the curve, exulting in his record-busting run and his first world championship gold medal to go with the three Olympic gold medals he won last year in Beijing.

“I said anything could happen and it did,” Bolt said. “It was a big target but I got 9.58 and I’m really happy with myself. Now I plan to do even better in the future.

“I was ready, I was feeling good after the semifinals. I came out and executed it in the final.”

His performance in Beijing made Bolt — the tall showboating Jamaican — into a global figure, regenerated significant interest in track and field and turned him into an expensive buy for the game’s meet promoters. He was reportedly paid $200,000, not including incentives, to race the 200 in Lausanne, Switzerland, earlier this year.

Sunday’s barrier-busting sprint will not hurt his bottom line, either. It was the biggest bite taken out of the men’s world record in the 100 since electronic timing became mandatory for record ratification in 1977.

When Bolt broke the 9.7-second barrier in Beijing, his time was only three-hundredths of a second faster than the record he had established earlier in 2008.

The first competitor to catch up with Bolt on Sunday was his Jamaican compatriot Asafa Powell, the former world-record holder in the 100 who took the bronze in 9.84 in this race.

Meanwhile, in the stands of the Olympic Stadium, fans were staring wide-eyed at their neighbors and shouting with we-were-there sentiments. Prince Albert of Monaco, a former Olympian in the bobsled, stood up slowly in the official box and put his right hand to his forehead, expelling breath and shaking his head.

It was Gay who had recorded the fastest time in the 100 this season, running it in 9.77, two-hundredths of a second faster than Bolt, whose preparations were disrupted by a minor car accident in Jamaica in April.

But Bolt clearly peaked at the right time and now has the two fastest times ever. If the doping tests are and remain negative, he has taken the event into a sub-9.6 place that may be hard to explore again when false starts are banned next year.

Bolt had a false start of his own in the semifinal round Sunday night. If he had done it again, he would have been disqualified before the final, but he ended up winning his heat and then winning the race that mattered: a race that had generated considerable anticipation in multiple languages leading into these championships.

Here are a few YouTube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By1JQFxfLMM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYcAaufpwLU

This is all that is being talked about on the radio, TV, in the rum bars, on the phones!

Thanks Usain and Asafa for making us so proud.

Usain bolt you make us PROUD of our country
you are the best good job






vergie u.s

A job well done Usain 9.58!!! You have made every Jamaican fell proud and you have done it with such ease. You have certainly brought humour and entertainment to athletics. Long may you continue.I was so excited my daughter had to restrain me. Going to pour myself some white rum now from my last visit to celebrate before retiring to bed!

New world record 9.58. Go Jamaica, go Bolt. Don't forget Asafa came in third, almost second, but that's O.K.

congrats to the new world championship-Team Marblue

Must be those Trelawny YAMS !!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable !!!!!!!
ONE LOVE !!
Mike

A new classification by fast man on earth has been recorded. Mr. Usain Bolt, you are simple the best, congrats!!!. Also brilliant run by Asfa Powell who came three to collect the bronze.

Jamaicans are always touchy about being described as a small island and our althetes once again have given the world a glimse of why we think that way.We are capable of great things and have a hunger to achieve at the highest level. I was talking to a colleague at work not long ago who until recently thought Jamaica was several times its actual size with a population to match! We have taken on the greatest nations on earth and beaten them- a samson and goliath match. I've just been listening to some British commentators describing little JA as the sprinting capital of the world and our sprinters as the sprinting Kings and Queens. Well done Shelley-Ann, Kerron and all fellow athletes.Our little dot in the caribbean sea producing the fastest man and woman in the world! How great is that? This calls for another celebration with the customary white rum, so glad I've got some left.

Just noticed mistake: should read David & Goliath!