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Usain Bolt is no longer lightning-fast.
“When I walk up the stairs, I get out of breath,” the eight-time Olympic gold medalist admitted to reporters at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, per The Guardian.
“I mostly do gym workouts,” revealed the athlete — who was once dubbed the fastest man in the world — adding that on a typical day, he’ll work out “if I’m in a good mood” but mostly watches TV and plays Lego with his kids.
Bolt stopped running after he ruptured his Achilles tendon at a 2024 charity soccer match. “I’m not a fan, but I think now that I’ve been out for a while, I have to actually start running,” he explained. “I think when I start working on it fully again, I will probably have to do some laps just to get my breathing right.”
The Jamaica native still holds world records for the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash — both of which he set in 2009 — and was asked why no one has been able to top his generation.
“You want the real answer? We’re just more talented,” Bolt responded. “That’s all I’m saying. Of course, it shows when it comes to the men. You can see the women are different. They’re running faster times and faster times. So it shows – it has to be the talent.”
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Bolt, who has 11 gold medals from the World Athletic Championships, confessed he hadn’t followed track and field much since his 2017 retirement.
But seeing fellow Jamaicans Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Oblique Seville win gold at the Tokyo games made him excited to bring his kids — daughter Olympia, 5, and twin sons Saint Leo and Thunder, 4, who he shares with girlfriend Kasi Bennett — to the next World Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2027.
He first rose to prominence at the 2008 Olympics there.
“I’m excited because I get to bring my kids and I can tell them: ‘Listen, this is where it all happened,’” he said. “I’ve shown my kids videos and stuff like that. They’ll be 6 and 7, and they’ll kind of understand the moment, and I can explain to them what their dad has done over the years.”
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