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EXCLUSIVE: How Bolt ran the fastest race in history on a rain-swept Manchester shopping street!

Usain Bolt starts what would be the fastest race in history [Photo: Courtesy]

Nine years ago today Usain Bolt wandered out on to a busy shopping street in Manchester and shocked the world.

It had been raining hard. Not a day for hanging around. Few expected the Jamaican to take that so literally.

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