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A news item involving Usain Bolt was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 16 August 2009.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

The article states that Bolt gave sprinting lessons to "Portugal captain" Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United's Carrington training ground. Cristiano Ronaldo is not the Captain of the Portugese Football team —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.201.14.19 (talk) 17:07, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Zawdie (talk) 12:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cristiano is the captain of portugal. Change it back, its correct and I think vaguely significant. 66.229.93.164 (talk) 23:28, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New World Record

I'm apparently not 'established' enough, could someone edit the record to 9.58 at the Berlin World Championships. -Blue Sam3 (talk) 19:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ON SECTION Personal bests

the 100m record isnt marked as OR, when its one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.184.71.206 (talk) 20:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the Achievements section it said "Bolt's personal best of 9.69 seconds" whereas it should say "Bolt's personal best of 9.58" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.231.154 (talk) 20:11, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

education

educational background —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.98.98 (talk) 20:33, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling consistency

Metres is spelled both "metres" and "meters" (one occasion only when referencing his 9.69s Olympic time) both in the first paragraph. 92.1.89.173 (talk) 22:08, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

37.59 km/h or 10.44 m/s

His 100 m average speed was 37.59 km/h or 10.44 m/s when he broke the world record in 9.58 seconds. Shouldn't this be included? --Schwarzschachtel (talk) 08:01, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics > Pers Best

HI, "Statistics -> Personal bests -> 100M -> Notes" is incorrect. Gay, the second yesterday did also beat Bolts previous record, so he currently holds the second best time.

Janmarques (talk) 10:25, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uuhhh, no he didn't. Bolt's previous record was 9.69. Gay "only" managed 9.71. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NJR/WJR

These acronyms are used but not explained. I'm guessing they mean "National Junior Record" and "World Junior Record", but it's not very clear to someone who doesn't follow these things closely. Perhaps someone could clarify this in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.196.53 (talk) 00:36, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

to add later

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8206590.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.60.2.34 (talk) 05:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Achievements

Isn't Bolt the only man to have broken the 100m WR 3 times, not just equal it, like Carl Lewis. If so, this should be added to the achievement list. Ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_100_metres_world_record_progression —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.175.184.145 (talk) 13:57, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

9.30 @ 200m

In the section on Personal Bests article says "Also holds the second fastest time with 9.30, which is the Olympic Record." next to the 200m distance, which probably should be 19.30 as elsewhere in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.232.234.3 (talk) 19:57, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Height

It seems all most universally accepted that he is 6ft 5 inches or 1.96cm however on his IAAF profile he is listed as 1.93cm which is 6ft 4. One would assume the height that he enters races under and so on feeds into the listing that he is shown with on the IAAF site. Should he actually be listed as 6ft 4?--194.125.106.136 (talk) 22:23, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]