Athletics

Race of the decade: Virtually any of Bolt's championship performances could take this accolade but for sheer dizzying quality his 2009 world championship 100 metres victory in a eye-popping 9.58 seconds is difficult to surpass.

Tyson Gay ran 9.71, a time bettered only by Bolt's Beijing world record, but the American was a distant second as Bolt's astonishing time launched a thousand "how fast can man go?" features.