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Bolt's "forgotten" run: Brussels, 2008. 9.77 into a 1.3 m/s headwind, off a terrible 0.22 reaction time. Rain puddles on the Brussels track, much like tonight. Possibly Bolt's "strongest" 100m run ever.
link to this video
If you account for everything: 1.3 m/s headwind, terrible reaction time out of the blocks, crappy weather conditions in Brussels, this was perhaps the "strongest" or "fastest" (in some respects) that he ever ran in his entire career, even including his 9.58 WR in Berlin. If not, it's very, very close. I think it actually probably was his strongest, by a few hundredths, in equivalency.
(Note that this also probably converts to Asafa Powell's best performance ever as well, when tak…