5 June

Sometimes people say Usain Bolt had the time to look around like this in a race because he was so good. But what if that's backwards? What if he was so good because he was the runner in the race not narrowed to where he wanted to go, as are the other runners you can see here? Narrowing like that tightens your body, look at the strain in their faces, whereas Bolt is open and free. For Bolt 'there' is already part of 'here', for the others there is somewhere they're straining to get to, from here, which they treat as two separate places.