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Bolt runs 9.77 at Golden Spike meet in Ostrava

Jun. 17, 2009
Olympic champion and world-record holder Usain Bolt has run the 100 meters in 9.77 seconds to win the Golden Spike meet. Bolt was aided by a strong tail wind of 4.7 miles per hour on Wednesday, but said he was "happy I got under 10 seconds" and that "I'm just...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visited in Washington
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic