Usain Bolt has finally explained his biggest career regret after retiring in 2017.
Legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt didn’t hesitate when naming the ‘biggest regret’ of his legendary career in athletics.
The 38-year-old who is an eight-time Olympic gold medallist and still holds world records in the 100m and 200m, said he regrets the bad days and when things didn’t go well for him on track.
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“I am happy by what happened in my career and don’t look back and regret the bad days, the moments when things went wrong for me on the track. I believe everything happens for a reason in life, so I don’t look at races that I lost and wish things could have been different,” he told Sports Bible.com.
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Bolt’s 100-metre record of 9.58 seconds has stood for nearly 16 years since it was set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. No other sprinter has come close to beating that in the years since, with Yohan Blake (9.69) and Justin Gatlin (9.74) the only two sprinters to run a time faster than 9.75 seconds since 2012.
Bolt competed at three Olympic Games between 2008 and 2016 and won a gold medal in every event in which he participated, though he had to relinquish his 4×100 metre relay gold earned at Beijing 2008 after the Jamaica team were disqualified.
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As part of his regrets, the 11-time World champion added: “The only thing I really wanted that didn’t happen was to run sub-19 seconds. That is the only thing I really regret. Maybe it will never happen now. I believe I was the only who could have done it. It was not to be.”
Noah Lyles ran a time of 19.31 at a meeting in 2022, though he is the only current sprinter to have come close to even matching Bolt’s record, let alone run under 19 seconds.
The Jamaican’s closest challenger is in fact compatriot Yohan Blake, who ran a more wind-assisted time of 19.26 back in 2011.
