Usain Bolt Biography ( sportsman with a record-breaking tally of nine gold medals at three consecutive Olympics of 2008, 2012.)

Usain Bolt Biography:

Usain    Bolt      is    one  of the       worlds       most celebrated      sportsman                                                        with  a record-breaking tally of nine gold  medals at  three  consecutive  Olympics   of      2008, 2012,   and           2016.   Bolt       was  gifted   ever since he took up sprinting as a junior, but burst  onto            the       World      scene   with             a seemingly      effortless dominance       of the 100m     and       200m     final       at          the  Beijing Olympics.   Bolts appeal has  transcended sport,            due       to         his  charismatic               and laid-back  approach.     In        a  sport      riddled with     allegations       of    drug    use, Bolt     has retained  a     clear record, although  he lost one    relay   gold  when   a   team-mate     was retrospectively banned.

Early life:

Usain       was  born  on 21        August   1986  in Sherwood     Content,          a   small              town    in Trelawny, Jamaica.              As a  youngster  he was                       mostly            interested    in         sports, spending      time         playing  football,  cricket and  basketball.          At             one                       time          he considered     a  career  as       a  cricketer but, his        natural talent    for             sprinting  shone through,   and  so     he   was     encouraged to take sprinting more seriously. At 15 years old, Usain already towered over his fellow competitors. Growing   to  a      height          of  6 foot       5          inches,    Bolt  showed   a  sprinter need    not     be        short       and       powerful   like previous sprinting greats.

In 2002,   he won Gold  at the World Junior Championships in the 200 metres. At this stage     in his     career,   Usain    appeared    to give the    impression  of     being       quite  laid back.     He       didnt                             lead              an  austere disciplined life   but  enjoyed    dancing  and the                 night-life  of        Kingston,       Jamaica. However,     he  was   still  training  hard    and won                    Gold     at  the      World                                   Youth Championship in the next year at 2003.

In   2004,   Bolt  turned   professional,  under the guidance of new coach Fitz Coleman. He   began     his    career  with the     CARIFTA Games in    Bermuda.  He became the first junior sprinter    to   break  20  seconds       for the 200  metres.    By    2005,   Usain  had         a new   coach    Glen  Mills   who     encouraged Usain      to        take      a                  more  professional approach and not just rely   on his  natural talent.   Over  the   next        few      years,    injury setbacks curtailed his career, but, he was still able to climb the rankings.

His big    breakthrough     came in  the   2007 World      Championships  where  he   gained silver in the 200m and 4*100 metre relay. Bolt          established      a  new           100m     world record   on    31  May 2008. Pushed on by  a tailwind of 1.7  m/s, Bolt ran 9.72 s  at the Reebok        Grand  Prix       held      at    the     Icahn Stadium in       New      York       City,               breaking Powells record.

2008 Olympics:

Usain      Bolt       went   into his        first  Olympic Games   as one   of the favourites,  despite his   youth     and       inexperience       at         major championships.        usain             boltUsain   Bolt proved to be the revelation of the games. Easing through   to   the      finals  of both the 100m and 200m, he set the games alight with his electrifying display in both finals. In  the        100  metres  final,   Usain powered ahead  so quickly in the first 60m; he was able to ease  off and celebrate  in   the last few   metres.    His     dominance,          audacity and     youthful  enthusiasm captivated  the global           audience.    In  some quarters,   he was  criticised   for celebrating  before  the finish           line.  But,    Bolts      dominance     and speed  were     unquestioned.      His time      of 9.69s was     a world record,   and   if he had kept       going   to    the   end,   he   could         have perhaps gone        under 9.60   In               the     200 metres,       Bolt again     won    gold   and   even more     surprisingly                 broke                        Michael Johnsons long-standing world record. By the   next  World   Championships  in   Berlin 2009, Bolt was able to again dominate all the      sprint        events       –   winning   a         clean sweep      at     the   100m,  200m and          100m relay.          Again he         set    remarkable  World Record    times,  lowering  the time    for 100 metres to 9.58 and 19.19 for 200 metres. On                     the    last         day          of            the                 Berlin Championships,  the   Governing Mayor of Berlin,     Klaus   Wowereit,          presented Bolt with      a  12-foot high section  of the   Berlin Wall in a small ceremony, saying Bolt had shown that “one can tear down walls that had      been            considered                                                                      as insurmountable.”

2012 Olympics:

Bolt        won   three        gold       medals,     despite being    beaten   by   his           training          partner, Yohan  Blake       during  pre-Olympic  events at                                             the         Jamaican                             national championships.    Bolt  won the   100m and 200m    and  was part of  the team  that set a       new    world   record in  the   mens   100m relay.

2013 World Championships:

At  the   2013     World Championships,   Bolt again  won     a    unique     triple           of    gold     at 100m, 200m and 100m relay.

Usain Bolt in 2014:

Bolts  2014 season  was marred  by  injury which reduced     his    racing         programme. Bolt has stated that his body has become more        prone    to       injury  as         his       athletic career  progresses.   In  the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games,   Bolt      chose   not to   run  in   the individual 100m,  but  he   did compete                     in       the         100m           relay.    Bolt anchored the team  to a gold   medal      and proved    to   be    the   star     attraction    of  the games.

2016 Olympics:

Bolts run    up   to  the   2016   Olympics   was not  ideal     with frequent   injury      problems curtailing              his             racing             and    training. However, he     was   determined       to      finish with    a flurry  and     announced      he     would retire shortly after the 2016 Games.

Bolt was the   undoubted superstar of  the Games,   and despite poor attendances in Rio, Bolt always managed to attract a full crowd. Bolt again managed to win gold in all      three events    – the 100m,   200m   and 100m  relay.    It  was a perfect  bag of  nine Olympic      golds     –   a feat         never        before achieved.

Bolt    has     announced  that     he     will    retire from athletics after the 2016 Olympics.

Usain Bolt and drugs:

Usain Bolt has  shown tremendous talent ever since  he    first     started      running.  His timings   are consistent with an  athlete of tremendous             talent.    As         Bolt         himself says:

“I was   the       youngest person  to         win the world juniors   at 15. I ran the   world junior [200] record 19.93 at [17] … I have broken every record there     is     to       break,  in  every event      I  have ever done.      “For  me,  I  have proven   myself     since    I  was 15.    … I  have shown  everything  throughout        the years since I was always going to be great.”

Usain Bolt is regularly tested  by  the IAAF international    testing  pool  and  has never tested positive. However, inevitably given the history of   the   sport,   questions    have been  raised  about the  issue of  drug use. The biggest    cause for concern has been from  the     perceived inadequacies     of the Jamaican Athletic  Federation.   In 2013, it emerged          that                    they    had          failed         to undertake      proper       out    of          competition testing  in the  run-up  to   the 2012 London Olympics.                This         failure  to    implement proper drug  testing was  compounded by six  Jamaican         athletes         – including the former world    100m  record   holder Asafa Powell           and   Veronica   Campbell-Brown, testing   positive for     banned substances. WADA  announced an extraordinary audit of the Jamaican testing programme, and have    even  threatened    to ban    Jamaican athletes  from    international  competition. (link) Bolt has frequently stated that he is clean

“I was made to  inspire people and to run, and   I was given  the gift   and thats what I do,”  the six-time Olympic  champion said. “I   am confident    in   myself   and my  team, the   people  I work  with. And  I   know    I am clean.   “So         Im     just        going  to       continue running, using my talent and just trying to improve the sport.”

In Jan 2017, it was announced  that Bolts teammate,   Nesta   Carter,     from the 2008 Beijing Olympics had  retroactively tested positive                              for                                            a                  stimulant methylhexaneamine,    and         therefore the whole    team    were  stripped  of  their    gold medal.

Bolt              retired         after    the      2017                 World Championships          in      London.      In his  last major  100m     final,      Bolt  finished          in  3rd place  –   slightly    off    his       usual blistering pace,      after    an    injury-hit year. In  his last ever   race,   he        was   anchor    leg            in      the 4x100m   final. After      receiving  the   baton he pulled up with  an  apparent hamstring injury and hobbled over the line.

Since retirement, he has  been involved in setting up  Jamaican food   outlets   in    the UK.        So    far,   he  has insisted  he  has         no plans to return to the track.