With all the excitement that the Olympics bring with them, there is no doubt that in athletics it was not easy to get used to the lack of Usain Bolt, who brought to the previous Olympics tons of color and physical ability that left us speechless every time again. Tonight (Sunday to Monday) the former sprinter told AFP that he is sure that even at the age of 35, he would have won Olympic gold in the 100-meter dash.
Bolt had a hard time seeing his countrymen mess up in Tokyo and lose to an Italian-American to Monte Jacobs: “I missed it very much. I thought to myself that I wish I was there, because I live for these moments. It was hard to watch it,” the Jamaican said in an interview in Dubai. As Ambassador of the Pepsi Company in an international exhibition.
Bolt continued: “My coach told me at the end of my career that people don’t get faster, rather I’m getting slower. I did not see it that way. And that’s a fact, a lot of runners didn’t really get faster. I raised the bar so high and then I started. To go down, so for me 9.80 was a completely possible result. ” As a reminder, gold medalist Jacobs stopped the clock at 9.80 in the final, with the world record he still holds prominently (and unlikely to ever break) standing at 9.58.
“I always came ready for the Olympics because it was the highest level, but I had already done everything in the industry so it was a matter of motivation,” the sprinter repeated the reason for his retirement. “In my opinion, there is no one in the current generation that I feel is going to break my world records.”