It&#39;s the kind of picture a sports photographer can only ever dream of: The sprinter Usain Bolt clinching gold as a lightning bolt illuminates the stormy skies above. That&#39;s exactly the shot snapped by AFP photographer Olivier Morin on Sunday night as the Jamaican athlete won his 100-metres final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow. Photographers, sports fans and commentators were slack-jawed after seeing the image Monday, with one Irish article calling it &quot;the coolest picture of the decade&quot;. Morin, 47, who&#39;s based in AFP&#39;s Milan bureau, shrugged off his role in capturing the image, saying he can only claim &quot;one percent&quot; credit. &quot;Let&#39;s be honest: the only things I was able to control were the framing of the shot and when to hit the remote-controlled trigger,&quot; he wrote in an AFP blog posting. &quot;The flash of lightning -- well, of course that can&#39;t be planned.&quot; <img alt="Bolt, Lightning strike together" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/aug/bolt-lightning-Moscow.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 321px;" /> Oliver Morin&#39;s photo of Jamaica&#39;s Usain Bolt winning the 100 metres final as lightning strikes in the background at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on Sunday. Pic/AFP Morin, an AFP veteran of 23 years, said he&#39;d set up five remote-controlled cameras along the edge of the track, all of them focused on Bolt&#39;s lane. He envisioned getting a photo of the winner with his hands in the air. &quot;It&#39;s of course the lightning that makes the photo, because we&#39;re talking about Usain Bolt here. Without the flash in the sky, it wouldn&#39;t really be anything that special. I knew it was a good shot, but I didn&#39;t anticipate the amount of reaction it would get,&quot; Morin said. The image was massively shared on social media sites, and on Twitter was tweeted and retweeted thousands of times. Britain&#39;s The Guardian newspaper called it &quot;an image that is almost certain never to be repeated&quot;, the Huffington Post said the photo was &quot;astounding&quot;, and the Washington Post designated it the picture of the day. Irish sports site The Score went further -- calling it the &quot;coolest picture of the decade.&quot; Bolt clocked a season&#39;s best 9.77 seconds in heavy rain at the Luzhniki Stadium, with American Justin Gatlin claiming silver and Nesta Carter, also of Jamaica, taking bronze. Morin&#39;s blog posting is at: u.afp.com/bou00a0

Amazing photo captures Usain Bolt crossing the line to win the 100 meter race as a lightning bolt strikes in the sky.

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