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A physicist has done the math and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat. “We estimate that he could have finished the race in a time between 9.55 and 9.61,” Norwegian physicist Hans Eriksen told The Associated Press on Friday. Bolt won the final at the Beijing Olympics last month in a world-record 9.69 seconds. Bolt’s chest-beating celebration some 20 meters before the line cut his speed. Eriksen, a physicist at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo, and his colleagues analyzed TV footage of the race. The Associated Press
