Did India’s Srinivas Gowda really beat the 100m world record holder? Only if you don’t count his animal assistants
It made for a good story, even if it was best filed under fake news. Indian man runs faster than Usain Bolt, claimed the headlines, after a construction worker sprinted 142 metres in 13.42 seconds at a buffalo-racing festival in Aikala.
Srinivas Gowda, 28, clocked 9.55 seconds for a 100m section of the course, which ran through a wet paddy field. On the surface, that made the 28-year-old faster than Bolt, whose 100m world record is 9.58 seconds.
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