Usain Bolt ran a 9.58 100 in Berlin.

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Holy shit mangs. Just for fun, I'm going to lay out 5 of the most underrated non-team sport athletic accomplishments, in no order:

- Reinhold Messner's solo ascent, without oxygen, during the storm season, of Everest's north face. (Actually, this one is in order. This was so far beyond what anyone had done before it defies logic.)

- Bob Beamon's long jump. The record stood for 23 years (including the advent of steroids), and broke the record by almost 2 feet, whereas the record had previously never been bettered by more than 4 inches.

- Carl Lewis anchor leg of the 4x100 in the 1992 Olympics. This one may have made the list because I remember the feeling of watching it live, but watch the race. He SMOKES the field, and runs an 8.8 second split. 100 meters in eight point eight seconds. Yowza.

- Mike Tyson knocking out Leon Spinks in 45 seconds for the heavyweight title.

- This one is on the list mostly because it's obscure, but Andy Coan deadlifted 1,000 pounds, the only person in history to do so. Can you even comprehend what it would take to deadlift that much weight?

I would have included Edwin Moses not losing a 400m hurdle race for 9 years and 9 months (122 races) but I know that I trot that horse out pretty regularly.

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