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Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt Summary                                    Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is arguably the fastest man in the world, winning three gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and becoming the first man in Olympic history to win both the 100-meter and 200-meter races in record times. Bolt also won three Olympic gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. He ran the men's 100-meter race in 9.63 seconds, a new Olympic record, making him the first man in history to set three world records in Olympic competition. He made history again at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio when he won gold in the 100-meter and 200-meter race and 4x100-meter relay, completing a "triple-triple," earning three gold medals at three consecutive Olympics for a total of ...

Congo Rain forest

Congo Rain forest  Description                               The Congo Basin forests of Central Africa cover a massive expanse of over 180 million hectares, spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), most of Congo-Brazzaville, the southeastern reaches of Cameroon, southern Central African Republic (CAR), Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The region comprises 10 per cent of the world’s remaining tropical rain and moist forests and forms the second largest block of rainforest in the world, after the Amazon.                               An incredibly diverse range of forests is found here, including evergreen rainforest, semi-deciduous forest, evergreen montane and sub-montane forests, swamps and inundated forests.                        ...