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"Before the finish line you're dancing and whirling around and flapping your arms in celebration," Letterman said. "Now that's not technique. That's something different from running technique, isn't it?"
Bolt tried to make a joke that he wanted to fly, but Letterman wouldn't let it go.
"But maybe if you had finished the race and then celebrated, maybe your world records would have been even lower," Letterman said.
Bolt then made a tacit acknowledgment of what many have speculated about: He might have actually wanted to slow down so as not to set a world record so low that even he can't break it.
"That's true, but then it would take me a long while to get there again," Bolt said. "So I was being smart when I slowed down."
I like Bolt and love the fact that he made track and field more interesting during the Olympics, but I'm with Letterman: He should go all out through the finish line.
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