Usain Bolt has explained a past haunting experience that denied him a perfect record.
The fastest man alive Usain Bolt has revealed how an incident in 2017 denied him a career milestone.
Bolt, whose record on track was already on another level, was left disappointed after him and his Jamaica teammates were stripped of their 4x100m relay title from Beijing in 2008 as Nesta Carter’s doping sample from the Games was found to have contained the stimulant methylhexaneamine, a banned substance, following a batch of retesting.
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The ruling was delivered nine years later in 2017, a decision that left the 38-year-old disheartened to the core.
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Disclosing the heart-wrenching experience, the three-time 100m Olympic champion told talkSPORT: “Initially I was disappointed, of course. But in life, things happen. I’m not sad… I’m just waiting to see what’s going to happen.”
If the ruling would have gone Bolt’s way, he would have become the joint track and field athlete with the highest number of Olympic gold medals because he already had eight. Few legends have set the bar exceptionally high at the Olympics level in track and field.
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Bolt would have joined the league of Finland’s Paavo Nurmi and USA’s Carl Lewis as athletes with the highest number of olympic gold medals (nine). Nurmi set the world ablaze across various distances where he set 22 world records.
It is Usain Bolt’s records in 100-meter and 200-meter races set at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin that have stood to-date. The 11-time world champion 100m record stands at 9.58 seconds while his 200m record reads 19.19 seconds.
Sice his retirement in 2017, no male athlete has won back-to-back Olympic titles in track and field, contrary to what ‘Lightning Bolt’ did at three consecutive Olympic editions.
