Usain Bolt. (Photo Credits: X)
The greatest sprinter in the world, Usain Bolt is ready for a comeback in the Olympics but this time in a different sport.
Talking to Esquire on the eve of the Doha Marathon, Bolt said, “I am happily retired from professional sport. I haven’t played cricket in a long time but if they call, I will be ready.”
“A cricketer for sure. Yeah, I think if my cricket coach hadn’t said, ‘You know what, go try running,’ I probably would have stuck with cricket, because my dad was a massive cricket fan and that’s all I knew growing up. Cricket, a little bit of football, but all I knew was cricket,” he had told PTI earlier.
“Well, for me, it was my cricket coach. I was a fast bowler, and my cricket coach kind of saw me running in and he said, ‘You know what, why not try track and field?’ And I tried, and I was really good. I was pretty talented, and that’s something that I just continued.”
Bolt has had an illustrious career and has a number of Olympics medals including eight golds, and a world record for Jamaica in 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4×100 metres.
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