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The Jamaican Sensation Usain Bolt, has made his way onto the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Bolt, known as the fastest human on Earth, is the first track and field star to make the cover since the year 2000 when track and field star Marion Jones was questioned after her husband’s drug bombshell.

Here is some of the article from SI.com:

His performances are unthinkable, but also seemingly self-evident. Usain Bolt is a sprinter, after all; his work is timed to the thousandth of a second. Within five days last week at the world track and field championships in Berlin—a deeply significant site in the sport’s history—Bolt crushed his own year-old world records while winning both the 100 and 200 meters. The numbers speak in track’s most eloquent tongue.

Yet there is also a more complex story. Bolt has shaken the historical moorings of his sport, dragging it to a distant, unimaginable place. Past sprint records are diminished, future marks seemingly unreachable for others. A decade’s worth of championship gold medals appear inaccessible to anyone but Bolt—provided he stays healthy and motivated. He carries the sport on his shoulders. And of course, a giant if hangs in the air, as it does with nearly every transcendent athlete of the last two decades: if he is clean.

Begin with the tangible. On the night of Sunday, Aug. 16, Bolt won the 100 in 9.58 seconds, finishing the job that he started at the Beijing Olympics when he ran a world-record 9.69 despite breaking form at least 15 meters from the finish, spreading his arms like a pterodactyl and beating his chest exuberantly. Tyson Gay of the U.S. finished second to Bolt in Berlin in 9.71 seconds, an American record that would have been a world mark before the Beijing Games but now stands as simply the fastest nonwinning time in history.

Four days later Bolt won the 200 meters in 19.19 seconds, also .11 faster than his Beijing world-record time, but far more stunning because in China he had ripped all the way through the 200 finish and taken down Michael Johnson’s 19.32 from the 1996 Olympics, a mark thought by many track experts to be unassailable. As Bolt dug through the final meters in Berlin, baring his teeth with the effort, his 6’5″ frame gobbling huge chunks of the blue track, U.S. TV viewers watching on Versus heard analyst Ato Boldon, a four-time Olympic sprint medalist, scream into his microphone, “Oh … my … God!” A universal reaction.

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