Beijing Olympics: Usain Bolt Breaks The World Record (Men's 100 Meters)

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    Literally seconds after Bolt crossed the line at the Beijing Olympic Games men's 100 meters to break the world record...like maybe 1 or 2 seconds.

    The license on this photo has been changed from Creative Commons to Copyright due to a request from the IOC:
    richardgiles.com/2009/10/14/the-olympics-and-creative-com...

    Gustavo Muleey, maniacmiler18, xClipse, Fahad Nasir -I'm Back- :D, and 50 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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    1. annfrau 58 months ago | reply

      wow it must have been great to be there!

      --
      Found in a search. (?)

    2. Manjith Kainickara *manjithkaini.net* 58 months ago | reply

      Thank you for your good will.

      But actually the licese accepted there is Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. I gave the wrong license tag. Would you please change it (The second last license from the flickr list-Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons). Sorry for that.

    3. rich115 58 months ago | reply

      @Manjith Hope it's right now.

    4. Manjith Kainickara *manjithkaini.net* 58 months ago | reply

      Once again really appreciate you good heart. Thank you.

    5. Miss Glorey 58 months ago | reply

      nice capture! the guy's amazing :)

    6. jakla 58 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Olympic Games 2008 - Track & Field, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    7. calanan 57 months ago | reply

      FWIW, NewScientist is using this image without full attribution here

      www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926734.600-how-much-fast...

      (found via search)

    8. rich115 57 months ago | reply

      Thanks for letting me know @calanan. That really rocks!

      But it's also interesting that a media organisation pays so little attention to other people's rights, when I'm sure they'd sue anyone using their content :).

    9. Gavin Ting 57 months ago | reply

      This is an amazing photo.

      Thanks alot of letting us use it on Wikipedia :)

    10. rich115 57 months ago | reply

      No worries Gavin.

    11. gmayster0i [deleted] 56 months ago | reply

      World class !
      g

    12. puatron 54 months ago | reply

      esta divertido el fondo de fotografos que tiene usain en la foto.

    13. Ricky n Rojo 51 months ago | reply

      Great shot, love the background

    14. akiwitz 47 months ago | reply

      I spotted your Wonderful "Olympic Games" Gem and would like to invite you to share your olympic photographs in the "Olympic Games" group and get in touch with other passionate photographers of the Olypmic Games. I hope to hear from you in our group:

      Olympic Games on flickr

    15. Ben Heine 45 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr United (Post 2 - Award 3 - Invite friends), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

      Really nice work...

      FYI, this is a text portrait I made with Bolt's biography:

      Usain Bolt, Text Portrait (Ben Heine)

      Usain Bolt - Detail Head - Text Portrait (Ben Heine)

    16. fishgirl7 44 months ago | reply

      tell you what though dude- can see why they are getting their knickers in a twist - its a freaking belter of a shot! and you got to see that bloody run - lucky shit!

    17. lapachipez 11 months ago | reply

      Hi rich, I have used your photo for a beginners runners programme I wrote. Hope this is OK with you. The photo is great and I am using it to talk about the energy systems ;)
      Thanks
      Patricia

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