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Six Degrees: Usain Bolt to Hamid Karzai
It's that time of the week again!
Get your thinking caps on, we're handing down our Six Degrees challenge.
All you need to do is connect two newsmakers who have hit the headlines in six moves.
This week we want you to link Usain Bolt, who smashed two world records in Berlin this week, to Afghanistan president (for now, at least) Hamid Karzai.
Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and I'll announce the winner on tonight's show.
Still need some inspiration? Check this out ...
One of our recent winners was Brian Petersen, who connected golfer Tiger Woods to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Here’s how he did it …
Tiger Woods played golf at age two with …
… entertainer Bob Hope, who played alongside …
…comedian Steve Martin in “The Muppet Movie,” who wrote a movie called “Traitor” starring …
… actor Don Cheadle, who helped carry out a heist in “Ocean’s 11″ with …
… actor Brad Pitt, who starred in “The Devil’s Own” with …
… actor Harrison Ford, who was interviewed by Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Bruno in the film of the same name.
Reckon you can do better? Then try your hand at connecting Usain Bolt and Hamid Karzai. Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the "share post" button below.
To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!
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USAIN BOLT became the first man to win all three events (100m, 200m and 4x100m relay) at a single Olympics since…CARL LEWIS who was the inspiration for the naming of…LEWIS CARL DAVIDSON HAMILTON who was awarded an MBE by…QUEEN ELIZABETH II who delivered a speech on the White House south lawn in 2007, where she was winked at by…GEORGE W. BUSH who appointed as his Vice President…DICK CHENEY who attended the 2004 presidential inauguration of…HAMID KARZAI
Maureen V.
Leeds, UK
Here goes.....
USAIN BOLT – visited Manchester in May 09, and had a training session with
CRISTIANO RONALDO – who played for Portugal under the management of
LUIZ FELIPE SCOLARI – who was the manager of Brazil, when they beat England in the 2002 World Cup, which was the final appearance for England by
TEDDY SHERINGHAM – who played for Tottenham Hotspur alongside
JURGEN KLINSMANN – who has been interviewed by
BECKY ANDERSON – of CNN, who has also interviewed
HAMID KARZAI
Sally H
Leeds
UK
usain bolt is a 23years old athlete who is the first person since carl lewis to hold all three sprint competitions in both the olmypicsworld championships since carl lewis,who is a political analyist and who wanted bush to remove american soldiers from afghanistan the same thing president HAMID KARZAI wants and has promised
USAIN BOLT won three gold medals during the 2008 Summer Olympics, for a medal count second only to that of MICHAEL PHELPS, who appeared in a Guitar Hero commercial with fellow American KOBE BRYANT, member of America's "Redeem Team" which beat fellow Laker PAU GASOL's own Spanish national team during the last Olympics, adding very much to the Spaniards' woes, for JUAN ANTONIO RAMOS, their top seeded bet for Taekwondo, also got beaten by this previously unheard of guy named ROHULLAH NIKPAI, who went on to win the Bronze Medal for Taekwondo, getting Afghan President HAMID KARZAI to congratulate him for being the first ever Olympic medalist in any event from Afghanistan.
Luther Aquino
The Philippines
Usain Bolt won the gold metal at the world championship this week. Chancelor Angela Merkel(1) opened the tournament in Belin. Her husband, Joachim Sauer(2) is a professor at the Humbolt University in Berlin, where Albert Einstein(3) also studied earlier. Albert Einstein did research toward the atomic bomb that Harry Truman(4) eventually decided to drop during WWII. George W. Bush(5) once compared himself to Truman in a speach at USMA. George Bush has also hosted talks with Hamid Karzai while he was president.
Usain Bolt is an olympic gold medallist at 100 and 200 metres
Bolt was born in Jamaica
Jamaica is still home to Bolt's parents
Bolts parents ran a grocery business
A business in Baltimore Maryland is owned by Qayum Karzai
Qayum Karzai is the brother of Harmid Karzai, President of Afganistan.
Usain comes from name hussain .so maybe his grand grand parents were muslims
Hamid Karzai claimed victory in the 2009 election in Afghanistan just as Usain Bolt emerged victorious in world record breaking 200m sprint on the same day...
Hamid Karzai
claimed Victory in the 2009 election in Afghanistan
just Usain
Bolt emerged
victorious in a record breaking 200m sprint
on the same day
Usain Bolt is a record breaking runner from Jamaica, the land of Reggae and Bob Marley; where Ian Fleming used to write the stories of James Bond, the spymaster that became famous defeating the evil minded Goldfinger and others like him; but never had a chance to go to Afghanistan after the master terrorist Bin Laden, in the land that Karzai rules.
i dont understand why is all this fight going on in those countires when all we see on tv is someone dying each day as we know it.
Usain bolt believed he's gona emerge winner jst as Hamid Karzai believes he's gona emerge winner in d presidential election..lol.
both men are braggers, loud mouthed and in love with the attention they get. however, one follows his showmanship with spectacular archivements while the other is a toothless bulldog. thas bolt and karzai respectively.
both men are braggers, loud mouthed and very much in love wth the attention they get. however, one follows his showmanship with spectacular archivements while the other is a toothless bulldog. thats bolt and karzai respectively.
USAIN BOLT recently declared that he is a massive fan of cricket and idolizes
... Indian batting maestro SACHIN TENDULKAR, who on the eve of the British Grand Prix (July 23, 2002) received a Ferrari 360 Modena from the legendary...
... F1 racer MICHAEL SCHUMACHER, who attended the 2008 Governor Cup karting competition on Rastrelli Square with ...
... St. Petersburg governor VALENTINA MATVIYENKO , whose Governorship was renominated in 2005 by...
... the then Russian president, VLADIMIR PUTIN, who hosted ...
... the then Afghan opposition leader BURHANUDDIN RABBANI in Dushanbe on 22 October 2001...
...who in 1992, selected HAMID KARZAI to be the Deputy Foreign Minister in his cabinet.
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