Usain Bolt Adopts Baby Cheetah
Now that the New York City Marathon has ended we can all go back to doing what we do normally: obsess over Usain Bolt. The Lightning has been taking a break from JA to hang out in Kenya for a few days, where he has “already impressed local children with his football skills, and become an honorary Maasai warrior,” according to the BBC, further proving he is our second most admired jedi knight/sensai/dream date slightly after Barack Obama. But Bolt’s moved up like 18 notches on our list after his recent adoption of A. Baby. Cheetah… as part of a conservation effort focusing on sustaining the environment in Africa via the Long Run, a new campaign he is launching. Appropriately, he christened the cheetah “Lightning Bolt,” and we immediately began singing the Vybz Kartel verse “BOLT / LIGHTNING BOLT,” weirding out our coworkers for the 49th time today. Watch a dubiously edited YouTube of Bolt “beating” a less adorable cheetah in a race after the jump.
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posted on Nov 2, 2009 in ART+CULTURE NEWS
NYC: Usain Bolt @ PUMA Store in Union Square
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All you have do to get his autograph is beat him from the periodicals on the third floor to the Gaiam video rack on ground level. (Tip: Scatter some chocolate covered coffee beans at the escalator turn and he’ll go down.)
Vybz Kartel, “Lightning Bolt” MP3
Jamaican Usain Bolt set a world record for the 100-meter dash on Sunday, speeding to the finish in an unprecedented and nigh absurd 9.58 seconds—which inspired Vybz Kartel to immediately hit the studio and memorialize the freakish sprinter. The song is only two minutes long so it feels nearly as quick as Bolt’s record, but it’s notable that Vybz sounds audibly STOKED, singing with a glorious wail and proudly repping the Jamaican flag. The Times writes, “Jamaica is the cradle of sprinting now, and all those curious to know just how fast Bolt might have gone if he had not stopped trying 20 meters before the finish in Beijing now have a much clearer answer. Assuming ratification, the time to beat is 9.58 seconds. And for now, only one man appears capable of playing this game.” Bolt also dragged his feet at the start of this one. Vybz puts it more succinctly: “The fastest man in the history of the worrllllllldddddd!”
Download: Vybz Kartel, “Lightning Bolt”
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posted on Aug 18, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Video: Learn To Dance Like Usain Bolt With Elephant Man
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If you watched the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics yesterday, you saw the incredible dancing styles of London’s mayor Boris Johnson during the the Olympic flag handover. It was honestly nice to see someone more nervous onstage than we would have been, doing the pee pee dance and sticking his hands in the pockets of his unbuttoned suit jacket while roughly 1 billion people watched on television. So good. So promising for a truly bizarre and tacky London 2012 Games.
What you didn’t see during the closing ceremonies was the incredible dancing of Jamaican sprinter Usain “Lightning” Bolt, which he’d displayed moments after his 200-meter thrashing of the regular human beings representing the rest of the world. At first we thought he had an ingrown toenail or was having a short-circuit in his transformer legs, but he was apparently a little shuffle now known forever as the “Lightning Bolt” thanks to the Energy God. In the video above, learn the dance from Elephant Man, and below, hear the “Usain Bolt Remix” of his “Nuh Linga.” And if you’re in Zürich, Switzerland this Friday (why not?), you can watch Usain Bolt run and dance in person.
Elephant Man, “Nuh Linga (Usain Bolt Remix)”
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posted on Aug 25, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS
