The world’s fastest man is preparing for retirement. Usain Bolt had announced that he will quit the sport after the 2017 World Championships in London. But first, there is the small matter of his last race on Jamaican soil.
Usain St Leo Bolt, OJ, CD is a Jamaican sprinter. He is the first person to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the 4 × 100 metres relay.
He missed more than two weeks of training grieving the death of his close friend, British Olympic high jumper Germaine Mason. The double world record holder said losing one of his closest friends left him in no fit state to train and he decided to step away from the track for more than a fortnight to grieve.
Close friends with Mason as they climbed the Jamaican youth ranks together, Bolt is determined to honour his friend by ending his career on a high with his 12th world title in London.
Bolt, meanwhile, is yet to make any firm plans for retirement. His coach, Glen Mills, wants him to take over as coach of the Racers Club. And while the Jamaican government says he is pushing at an open door if he wants to go into politics, he insists that it is not for him and he “tries to stay as far as possible away from that.”
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