In a recent interview, Icon sprinter Shawn Crawford -- who has raced both a zebra and a giraffe -- said that Usain Bolt was his most awesome opponent.

As Shawn told Reuters:

"He woke up all sprinters," Crawford, a silver medallist behind world record holder Bolt at last year's Beijing Olympics, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"It is no longer good (enough) to run 9.9s or 9.8s (in the 100 metres) or 19.7s or 19.8s (in the 200). "When Usain dropped both of those records (in Beijing), he raised the bar."

Crawford, who beat a giraffe and accused a zebra of a false start before losing a re-run on a 2003 television show, added: "Sprinting is at a different level, a new level."

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