Kyle Whelliston’s post-basketball-season Twitter stream pointed me to this fascinating Esquire profile of sprinter Usain Bolt, the title of which I’ve stolen in my headline above: “Biography of Usain Bolt, Mutant.” Kyle highlights one of the article’s two money quotes: “Mathematically, Bolt belonged not in the 2008 Olympics but the 2040 Olympics.” The other is this:
There’s a perception in some quarters of the athletic community that Usain Bolt is the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of track and field, a prodigiously gifted individual who is also something of a wastrel and clown. Certain people, when they see a man perform superhuman feats, want that man to carry himself with superhuman gravity. Bolt, by this measure, never fails to disappoint.
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