He confirmed it would be his last Olympic Games and has made bettering his 200m world record of 19.19 seconds a top target, although he admits it wilI be hard.
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He won the 100 metres, 200 and the 4×100-metre relay gold medals in Beijing 2008, and the same three at London 2012.
Nigeria’s fastest man Seye Ogunlewe says he hopes to defeat Usain Bolt in the preliminary round of the 100m dash of the ongoing Rio Olympics.
Doing so again would elevate him to an all-new level of greatness.
The spectacle was appropriate for Bolt, who considers himself both sprinter and entertainer.
In the end, Jamaica’s team conference morphed into an event focused on Bolt. Viewers can also follow the happenings from the Rio Olympics 2016 available for free on iOS and Android. His ultimate goal is -almost certainly- to defeat the big favourite Usain Bolt and he’s allegedly said that he will “shock the world”.
Laughing with reporters and shimmying with a troupe of semi-naked samba dancers, the Jamaican sprint star declared Monday he was ready to launch his bid for a “Treble-Treble”.
No wonder organisers opted to stage it at the Cidade das Artes, the largest theatre in South America. I think it’s the longest I have been in a village as normally we get in four days before or five days before but been here a week now. “I try to entertain and make it different, this is why people love me so much and it’s my personality, it’s what I do”.
Queues were building to get in more than two hours before it was due to start. The 11-time world champion has struggled with his form and injury this season, with his 100m time of 9.88sec ranked fourth fastest behind Americans Justin Gaitlin (9.80s) and Trayvon Bromell (9.84s), and France’s Jinny Vicaut (9.86s). It did nothing. It shouldn’t be on him to carry the sport.
And he admitted he could not be totally sure all his rivals in Rio would be clean.
“In life nothing is guaranteed“, he said. I never knew I would have boat friends. For me it’s just all about getting it right.
Asked about the doping scandals which have plagued the sport in recent months, he said: “I think we’re going in the right direction”.
“Every time we go out on the track, we’re capable of creating history”, teammate and former world record holder Asafa Powell said.
During a press conference Monday, Bolt said this year’s Olympics will be his last, per Jay Busbee of Yahoo Sports. It is scheduled on Thursday, Aug. 16 and Bolt will once again aim for another world record. “I’ll win three gold [medals], there’s never anything else for me when it comes to a championship”.
Not that his coach, Glen Mills, is letting him get carried away. “The corner was awful”.
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“I’m a sprinter first, but I like to entertain”, Bolt said.
