Dhaka, Sept. 12 -- Usain Bolt, whose 9.58 seconds world record for the 100 metres is now 16 years old, says he could have run 9.42sec in the carbon-plated "super-spikes" that on Thursday's sprinters are racing in.
The Jamaican set his mark at the 2009 world championships in Berlin, breaking his own 9.69sec record from the previous year's Beijing Olympics, and it has now stood for longer than the 14 years of Jim Hines's 9.95sec clocked at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Research by Puma, the company that shod him through his glorious era of dominance, predicted that Bolt would run 9.42sec in today's shoes and, speaking at an event ahead of the world championships in Tokyo, he said: "I fully agree."
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