Crawford's the happiest, fastest guy out of the medals in the 100 : "Two years ago, in a meet in Milan, Crawford appeared in the starting blocks wearing a Phantom of the Opera mask. With the mask obscuring his vision during the 200-meter race, Crawford crept into the wrong lane and was disqualified.

More recently, he raced a giraffe and a zebra for Fox television's "Man vs. Beast" and emerged from the experience calling himself the "Cheetah Man."

"Tell the zebra I coulda whooped him," Crawford told ESPN magazine. "