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Bolt set to go even faster, says coach


Glen Mills, coach of triple Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear.  medallist Usain Bolt Usain Bolt (born 21 August1986) is a Jamaican sprinter and current world junior and Jamaican record holder over 200 m. Early life
Bolt was born Trelawny, Jamaica) and educated at William Knibb High School.
, has identified three major things to fix in the sprinter's starting for the forthcoming season.

Bolt erupted on the world stage in 2008, winning an unprecedented Olympic sprint The Team Sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic Sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name it is not a conventional cycling sprint event - it is a three-man team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome.  treble in world record times in Beijing.

Bolt won gold in the 100m and 200m (in 9.69sec and 19.30sec) and then ran the third leg of Jamaica's 4x100m relay team, which also set a world record.

But Mills said the towering sprinter can find even more speed if he sharpens his skills out of the starting blocks start·ing block
n.
1. Sports
a. An apparatus that braces a runner's feet at the start of a race, consisting of two angled supports adjustably mounted on a rigid frame that is usually anchored to the track.

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Mills said that Bolt, who blasted his way to ten sub-10 second performances last season, will get even better after he is finished working with him.

"We have identified three major things with his starting that we feel we can correct this coming season," Mills said. "I feel that within the next two seasons he is going to become one of the fastest starters you've ever seen at 6ft 5in.

"We can certainly guarantee that nobody is going to leave him in the blocks anymore," he added.

Mills says the 22-year-old sprint phenomenon can go faster, but he is not prepared to pin-point a set time.

"I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 how fast Bolt can go, but I know he can go faster," the veteran sprint coach said. "I know he can much faster because we're just beginning."
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