Usain Bolt the eight time olympic gold medalist, eleven time world champion and the world's fastest sprinter who have been likened as the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in athletics is the only sprinter to have ever won the Olympic 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay gold medals for seven consecutive years, exempting the 2011 false start in the 100m.
Usain Bolt is a household name in many countries of the world having beaten much records in a lifetime than most athletes. After a hamstring injury during his last racing event everyone has been wondering what Bolt has been up to during his retirement. Here we will explore through his career, his relationships and what he does during his retirement.
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Bio
Usain St Leo Bolt was born on the 21st of August 1986 at Sherwood Content, Jamaica to Wellesley Bolt and Jennifer Bolt. Usain Bolt attended Waldensia Primary and by the age of twelve, Usain had become the school's best for the 100m race.Usain won his first annual high school championships medal in 2001where he took home the silver medal for the 200m race with a time record of 22.04 seconds.
Career
At the beginning, Bolt did not take sporting as an athlete seriously, he preferred playing crickets or football. His coach of his cricket team advised him to try out track sporting and he did. In the 2001 CARIFTA Games, Usain won a silver medal in both the 400m and 200m races with a record of 48.28s and 21.81s respectively.
His first appearance on the world stage was at the 2001 IAAF World Youth Championships in Debrecen , Hungary where he failed to qualify for the 200 m events finals. At the 2002 World Junior Championships Bolt won the 200 m race with a record of 20.61s, at fifeteen years he became the youngest world-junior gold medallist.
At the 2003 CARIFTA Games he won four golds and was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games. Usain will go on to set championship records in consecutive CARIFTA Games.Beginning with the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda in 2004, Bolt turned professional. He became the first junior sprinter to run 200m in 19.93 s.
After the 2007 Osaka World Championship, Usain took a more serious, more mature stance towards his career as an athlete, he continued to develop himself in the 100m event and on 3 May, 2008, Usain bolted with a record time of 9.76 s improving his personal best from 10.03 s. By 31st May, 2008, Usain set a new 100 m world record at the Reebok Grand Prix in the Icahn Stadium in New York City, he crossed the finish line at 9.72s. In the 100m finals of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Bolt broke his record again with 9.69s, in that Summer Olympics he also broke the record Michael Johnson held in the 200m race with a record time of 19.30s.
In the 2009 World Championship, bolt set a record of 9.58s winning his first gold medal in the World Championship, he also participated and won the 200 m finals with a 19.19s record.
Usain went on to break more grounds on the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay track events. The Jamican retired as an athlete after the August 2017 World Championships in London, in the final race of his career he suffered a hamstring injury only few strides to the final homestretch of the 4 x 100 meter relay. Usain Bolt finshed that race helped by his teammates amidst cheers from fans.
Retirement, what he has been up to
Usain Bolt after his retirement did not consider a return to the game of athletics rather he tried out being a proffessional footballer after his heydays in athletics. He joined the Australian football club Central Coast Mariners in August, 2018 and left the team in November,2018 as the club could not afford paying him. Usain Bolt scored two goals already in a friendly match kickstarting his professional football career, each goal was celebrated with his 'To Di World' trademark lightening bolt pose.
Usain is currently trying out new business ventures, he cofounded a company in 2018, Bolt Mobility, a which company produces electric scooters and other mobility devices. In July and November 2019, Usain tried out being a music producer releasing tracks from Jamaican dancehall artistes.
Bolt is currently an ambassador of several international brands. Bolt has also supported athletes especially in his country.
Relationship - wife , girlfriend?
For a man as famous as Usain Bolt, a romance isn't really private, he has since dated a list of girls and had flings with some. Girls who he had relationship with are Holly Young, Jady Duarte, Nailah Dillard, April Jackson, Megan Edwards, Taneish Simpson, Rebeckah Passley, Lubica Kucerova and Mizicann Evans.
The athlete was successful in hiding his relationship with Jamaican fashionista girlfriend Kasi Bennett for a very long time, currently they are planning to take their relationship to the next level of getting married and bearing children of their own.
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