托福阅读：博尔特打破200米世界纪录托福考试(TOEFL)

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　　北京时间8月21日，第12届国际田联世界田径锦标赛男子200米决赛在柏林奥林匹克体育场进行。博尔特以19秒19的成绩刷新了由自己在08年北京奥运会上创造的19秒30的世界纪录，成为200米比赛史上首位突破19秒20的选手，也成为了继格林（1999）、加特林（2005）之后第三位在同一届世锦赛上包揽男子100米和200米金牌的短跑之王。
　　’I aim to become a legend,’ says Usain Bolt as he smashes 200m world record
　　•. Jamaican sprints into history in 19.19 seconds
　　•. ’Sir Usain Bolt’? That would be very nice’
　　"What can I say?" asked Usain Bolt, having just demolished his 200m world record in 19.19sec at the World Athletics Championships last night. What could anyone say? The Jamaican, who turns 23 years old today, becomes the first man to hold the 100m and 200m world and Olympic titles at the same time, following his triumphs in last year’s Olympics.
　　"I keep telling you guys, my main aim is to become a legend, that’s what I’m working on," he shrugged. "It’s a great feat for me to have broken my world record. I didn’t know I was going to break it."
　　Bolt did not just break the record, he destroyed it, taking 0.11sec off the 19.30 mark he had set in Beijing last year, with Panama’s Alonso Edward claiming silver in 19.81 and the America来源：www.examda.comn Wallace Spearmon the bronze in 19.85.
　　He achieved the feat without a full season of training behind him – having missed four weeks after a car accident earlier this year. Could he run a sub-19 race? "I guess so, I don’t know," he said.
　　While the world struggled to understand what they had witnessed, Bolt had a simple explanation. "I said early in the season that I had to get my start right," he said. "I worked on it. That was the key in this final: I got my start right." His reaction time of 0.133sec was the best in the field.
　　Inevitably though, the question of performance-enhancing drugs was raised. Bolt was direct in his answer. "I keep telling everybody I’m clean. if they don’t believe me there’s nothing I can do. I don’t know what else I can say to convince people I’m clean, only to just run and stay clean."
　　Bolt said he was not upset by the speculation. " I don’t get offended because I know year after year people have run fast and then they have tested positive. I just continue running fast and one day people will stop asking that question."
　　Spearmon, who took bronze, said: "When we first started running in 2005Michael Johnson had the record of 19.32 and everyone kept saying it couldn’t be broken. Now Usain’s done it and now the world believes. Somebowww.Ｅxamda.CoM考试就到百考试题dy’s going to break it again – maybe even him– it’s just a matter of time."
　　Asked if it was harder than his equally amazin来源：www.examda.comg double in Beijing, Bolt said: "Not mentally, physically it was harder because I wasn’t in the best of shape. The rounds took a lot out of me this time. I just want to go home and sleep. It definitely means a lot because I showed people that last year wasn’t a joke. I went through some problems this season but I came out here and I showed the world with hard work and dedication what is possible."
　　He added: "I definitely came here trying to double. Now I’m double world champion, I’m double Olympic champion so I have to defend my titles. If Queen Elizabeth knighted me would I get the title ’Sir Usain Bolt?’ That sounds very nice."

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