The newly-crowned "World's Fastest Man", Usain Bolt, is getting all the attention in Beijing now that Michael Phelps - aka, Last Week's News - skipped town on a worldwide promotional tour. And with all the cameras turned on him, one can't help but notice that Bolt has a tendency for some bizarre behavioural tics: a) the 'lightening bolt' pose he strikes every time anyone glances his way; b) the way he always seems to be dancing to some tune only he can hear (on the starting block, at the finish line, in front of the crowds); and c) within seconds of finishing a race, the boy has his shoes off and in the face of anyone wandering by! I'll admit that they ARE eye-catching gold spikes...

Photograph from shoeguide.co.uk

...Puma's Complete Theseus II, for those of you hoping for a little residual shoe karma - but not exactly my preferred gold spikes this season. I give that distinction to these bad boys:

Givenchy Shoes, Photograph from barneys.com

And I'll admit, that if they were on my feet, I'd probably be using them to flag down photographers too!

Posted by SAM