Former Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt, world record holder in the 100 and 200 meters and retired since 2017, acknowledges that it is “too late” so that it returns to the tartan and that if it had done it it would have been to be in the Olympic Games in Tokyo last summer.
“It’s too late now. If I had come back, it would have been for these Olympics, but when I told my coach (Glenn Mills) that I was going to retire, he sat me down and said, ‘When you retire, that’s it. I’m not doing any return tours, nothing. So make sure you’re ready to retire, ‘”Bolt remarked in an interview with the’ BBC ‘network published this Thursday.
The eight-time Olympic champion went to see the coach “in 2019” and suggested that he return. “I said, ‘How about coming back for the Olympics?’ And he looked at me and said, ‘Don’t even start.’ So if he is not my coach, I will not do it, because I believe in him and if he says no, it is no, but I think I have that desire, “he stressed.
Secondly, The former athlete considered that the current rivalry between his compatriots Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah could cause one of them to break the world records of 100 and 200 held by American Florence Griffith Joyner since 1988.
“When I saw them really step up and run really fast, I thought it might happen. Elaine’s technique has improved and so has Shelly-Ann. She runs a lot more upright and her fluidity looks a lot better, so I think they will be knocking on the door (of the records) and if they can break them, it would be huge for the sport. “