"White Lightning" high school runner sets new record for 100 meters

1. 2019-05-01 at 4:23 PM UTC

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   We'reAllBrownNosers African Astronaut

   He’s turning heads on the high school track — and if you blink, you just might miss him.
   
   “White Lightning” Matthew Boling, a senior at Strake Jesuit College Prep in Houston, Texas, broke a national high school record Saturday in the 100-meter dash with a blazing-fast time of 9.98 seconds.
   
   Boling, 18, later posted a video of his win, and the footage quickly went viral, with fans dubbing him “White Lightning,” “fastest kid alive” and “Forrest Gump II.”
   
   “It definitely felt good,” Boling told the Houston Chronicle of his amazing race.
   
   “My block start was pretty good, and right out of the gate I knew it was going to be fast, so I decided to turn it up a little bit and ran my best. I was really happy with the time.”
   
   The time makes him the first high school runner to break the 10-second mark since Florida’s Trayvon Bromell clocked 9.99 seconds in 2013, according to MileSplit, a national high school track and field website.
   
   Boling’s new record goes under the heading of fastest high school runner at 100 meters in all conditions.
   
   Since he competed with a 4.2-mph tailwind, it’s considered he got an assist from Mother Nature.
   
   So the national record of 10.00 seconds still stands for the fastest high school runner without wind aid. It was set by Trentavis Friday in 2014.
   
   Boling will compete at the state high school championships in Austin next month. He’ll then head to the University of Georgia, where he’ll start focusing on making the US Olympic team, he told KHOU-TV in March.
   
   “I just have to get ready for that 4 seconds where I’m nervous and then, like, after that, it’s just smooth,” Boling said of how he approaches a race.
   
   His father says Matthew’s athletic prowess is anything but genetic, adding that his son wasn’t fast as a younger child and ran like a clumsy deer.
   
   “He just has a work ethic that is beyond anything I’ve ever seen from anybody,” Mark Boling told the station.

   https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/white-lightning-high-school-runner-sets-new-record-for-100-meters/
   
   lol obviously he had help from a divine force if he's white. Only black people can run fast. That or he's on meth.
2. 2019-05-01 at 4:47 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   9.98??? since when is that newsworthy.
3. 2019-05-01 at 5:15 PM UTC

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   vindicktive vinny Black Hole
   why do black people name themselves white ?
   
   you dont see chinese naming themselves wong yea low.
4. 2019-05-01 at 5:30 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by vindicktive vinny you dont see chinese naming themselves wong yea low.

   
   Foo Cum Yung makes a good point.