The world’s fastest man will be attempting to defend his three Olympic gold medals in Brazil, as he aims for victory in the 100 and 200 meters as well as the 4x100m relay. There are a lot of athletes stepping up.
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And Munich was itself the scene of bloodshed last week with a teenager shot dead nine people. The track and field community will take a hit after Bolt’s departure from Olympic competition, but just like Michael Phelps in the pool, the world will at least get to enjoy him one more time in the Olympics.
Much of the talk has been over which athletes will not be competing in Brazil after Russian Federation was banned by the IAAF previous year following revelations of state-sponsored doping and Kenya was ordered to get its anti-doping house in order.
Many sports would really like to be discussing a Bolt in their ranks: “they don’t and they can’t”, said IAAF president Sebastian Coe who still believes that other track stars deserve the Rio spotlight.
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Unless he decides to continue, Bolt’s glory era is due to end after the 2017 world championships in London. “It’s going to be a long time, I think, before somebody comes who will be as talented as me to break my records”.
