Why is Usain Bolt Retiring ?

Think it is a good move, you cant be a top for that long normally.

Plus, he will probably walk into a big bucks job at the bbc. Or football.

Merlene Ottey failed by 0.28 seconds to reach her eighth Olympic Games,aged 48.

At the age of 52, Ottey competed in the 4x100 meters relay at the 2012 European Athletics Championships.The Slovenian team only ranked No. 22 in the world before the 2012 Olympics and only the top 16 teams got to run.

Fkin pus syBolt.

he's retiring before his gestation period. he's to grow another three feet in height and
grow fur over his body. he's the Sasquatch?

zorro -

He says that he wants to play football. Different skills which he may or may not be able to develop. He'd be a good crowd puller though at matches.

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Features/2015/Nov/video-of-usain-bolt-telling-andy-goldstein-on-mutv-he-wants-a-trial-with-manchester-united.aspx

Saying for years he would play
for United.Boltron coulnd't
control a ball NAP

He has a debilitating shoulder injury!

pretty sure linford christie at 32 is the oldest 100m olympic champion. bolt is exceptional but chances are he's gonna start slowing down markedly pretty soon

Gatlin was clocking 9.74 when he was 33, Bolt would be 33 in Tokyo.

he knows hes under investigation for xxxxx

He wants to go out at the top. Some do -- AP McCoy retired while he was still champion jockey. And maybe he's got a better idea of the young upcoming sprinters who'd threaten his crown in three years time.

I have on good authority that he
wants Yohan Blake his buddy to win
an Olympic Gold at the 100m.

Andre De Grasse disrespected Bolt by
not slowing down in the 200m semi
so Bolt will train one of his jamaican
friends to beat him up.

I don't know why it's disrespectful him
by not slowing down though.I think we
could say Bolt wanted to fix it but
Grasse said no we go full steam.

Surprised he's only 30.

Let's face it he's achieved it all and should look at other opportunities now.

It's not exactly an interesting event. The training must be painful and he runs so damn fast the races are over in less time than it takes to boil a kettle.

Why would he risk going on and getting caught for drugs and ruin his legacy at this point?

nobody gets caught taking drugs, they are outed. they all take drugs.

look at the competitors of thirty years ago. Seb coe was a stick figure. there were fatties throwing the hammer. people looked normal. now they have muscles on muscles and their excuse is sports science.. better nutrition, better work outs?

look at the rugby guys? they are muscular tanks. i ran for twenty years, i've got solid muscular legs. these guys are abnormal. they are taking something.

Flo jo wasn't caught - she died young - heart issues. tell me that wasn't steroids? and why didn't it show up? because it's all buttoned down. if they need an example they let one take a hit.

If everyone i taking drugs, its still a level playing field. And Bolt the best.

i'm sure there are some failing on no drugs.
or no blood doping.

everything should be allowed. this is just
compounding the BS by spreading lies about what
you are doing. being secretive and deceptive.

i gave up watching after Ben Johnson.

Of the 52 sportspersons currently serving a ban for doping only 1 is from athletics but an amazing 27 are from rugby. That's over 50% so why is this not a major concern and why does it get no publicity?

put my bet on the world record being broken... 110/1.

he gets a bonus from a sponsor every time it's broken? wedge o cash.
he's been slowing down at the line? i think it's do able.

I saw that market.

Decided to lay Bolt instead.

Reminiscent of Sergie Bubka who used to get a huge bonus from the promoters if he manged to break the pole vault record. He broke the record 35 times!

Reminiscent of Sergie Bubka who got a big bonus from the promoter each time he broke the pole vault world record. He broke it 35 times!

When was the last time Bolt beat the world record?

Purely physical events like Cycling and certain athletic events that have no skill level gain more attention for drug use probably because it's more prevalent. Drug takers in sports like football, Tennis and Basketball can improve physically all they want and minimalizes recovery time but there's no drug to increase natural talent so your level will never increase much and neither will results, whereas in predominantly physical sports it dramatically improves results, some records I just can't believe, even British held ones.

someone else might break the record. i think it's due?

Yeah, I've a strong feeing that Bolt will lose tonight.

he's been pulling up at the end of races?
i've watched him in the news. As a past sprinter myself.
I find that unusual in the 100 metres?
400m maybe?

I've stuck another two quid on at 110/1 - ?

Since 2008 there have been 148 drug violations recorded by UKAD.  8 were cyclists, 11 from athletics and a massive 61, thats 41%, from rugby. Yet have you ever heard the  media acknowledge that rugby has a problem.
The problem appears to also be getting worse as if you just take violations during the last 2 years the figure from rugby goes up to 52% of all the people banned.

i haven't heard anything about rugby - but it's not a surprise

look at the build of rugby guys in the seventies and now? different species?

Athletics cheats get the big headlines because it's all on the clock. 100th of a second can make the difference between gold and silver.

Hard to prove a rugby cheat gains that much of an advantage. They're all massive including the wingers. Very unnatural.

Because most of the doping offenders in Rugby are from the Junior/Amateur ranks.

And there have been quite a few articles on Rugby's drug problem. Seems to be a big Welsh problem.

bix 04 Aug 17 14:08 Joined: 08 Dec 02 | Topic/replies: 3,965 | Blogger: bix's blog
Reminiscent of Sergie Bubka who used to get a huge bonus from the promoters if he manged to break the pole vault record. He broke the record 35 times!


Bolt has only broken the world record twice and the last time was 8 years ago.

Of the 14 fastest 100m times in history, Bolt only has 4 of them.

^ is it the top 4 times ?

No

Absolutely no chance of him breaking the world record. And anyone saying all athletes are on illegal drugs is an idiot.

that let's me out - i said those not taking the drugs are lagging behind.

Bolt has The top 3 times in history.
The third is joint with two others

The fastest time this year so far is outside the all time top 150
The fastest time last year was by Bolt....48th in the all time list.
In a race determined by 100ths of seconds, top 10 or even 20 times are rare.

Bolt said a couple of years ago that his body can't do what his mind wants it to do anymore, I thought given his age he could still break one of his sprint records, but it does explain why he's retiring if he no longer genuinely thinks he can top what he's already done, though I still would have thought he is good enough to win 3 more gold's in Tokyo but probably too satisfied with his lot already.

He's to head back to the Mystic Mountain.
there to take up his role as the Grand Wafty.
Caring for the simple creatures that eat conservatives.
Thus controlling the world's greedy bustard populations.

suppose its all about desire, if he cant compete to his best why go on, klitchko retired form boxing aswell because lack of desire

Bolt is lacking in determination (To much partying?)

When he loses the limelight he will try to make a comeback

…… But it will be too late.

need that world record broken... it's my bet for the week.

Bolt should take 5 wraps of speed before the race....

and really go out with a bang

BOLT

1.23            £204
1.25            £140
1.26            £2,899
1.27            £358
1.28            £2,864
1.29            £2,065
1.3            £3,353
1.31            £5,215
1.32            £5,728
1.33            £3,841
1.34            £7,387
1.35                 £16,322
1.36            £16,483
1.37            £46,275
1.38            £101,989
1.39            £86,608
1.4            £91,593
1.41            £56,019
1.42            £40,216
1.43            £43,219
1.44            £52,149
1.45            £24,818

The reason hes retiring has just been highlighted 100 fold.

The man knew when to retire, shame it didnt end how it should of. Best sprinter that has ever lived.

yeah, father time has caught him up.

Now, which football club does he sign for ?

scandanavian_haven
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yeah, father time has caught him up.




Yeah it has, he just got beat by a 35 year old

by a druggie

Druggie, just like all the other 100m runners Bolt's coach coached

No way Bolt would decline at 30 if he was on drugs imo of course.

Maybe he is off them now

a clean 35 year old twice banned you mean ?

Bolt no longer has the motivation, how can you still be motivated when you've won 3 straight 100m and 200m gold in the Olympics.

I don't know ask Steve Redgrave who won 5 straight?

Expand on why he has given them up at this point in his career ?

Because they are different people, Bolt is a party boy and for him he's won enough. Rowing is an incredibly gruelling sport but Redgrave never rowed alone, Bolt runs alone, I too would have thought another Olympics was in him but you can tell from his performances recently, his lack of meets, the way he has been talking that his heart no longer in it, also Bolt has won 8 Olympics Golds by age 28, Redgrave had won 2 by that age.

now it will be like the boxing.... Bolt v Gatlin 2. 100 million to tempt Bolt out of retirement

Bolt knew this was his last games, that should have been all the motivation he needed to sign off with a win.

Winning is done in training, he hadn't done enough due to back injury which he flew to Germany for just last month, but even having all the motivation in the world.


Either way it does not matter, he is a 3x Olympic champion on both sprint distances, I imagine anyone else in that position would be completely satisfied with his lot and move on, think he wants to be a footballer and was talking last year about a trial with Dortmund, I would guess Centre back would be his position, not sure what his touch and ball skills are like though.

bettor than Fellani

Some
Times
Even
Really
Obvious
Illegalities
Do
Succeed

Told you so!

Pmsl
I thought it was hilarious.
I've no real interest in athletics and nowt against bolt, but this Gatlin character chinning him at his own banquet was hilarious.
I makes it even better, the guy who everyone expected and wanted to win, who had won everything and was running one final time, to the be beaten by the guy who everyone hated because of drugs, to then beat him fair and square.

Ask zorro, there might be a passage in the bible that has a story like that.

Strange how the world record hasn't been beaten in 8 years.

Isn't it?

very strange how they banned the russians for drug taking ,, yet no other nation pmsl

Russian doping was done with state connivance aided by FSB

all comes down to money,  anyone caught taking drugs in sport should get a life ban ,, this cheat has been caught twice , yet still allowed to race,,,  absolute joke,,  these stadiums should be empty,, people should boycott and not attend.

The Jamaican coaches got done for something didn't they ? ....no time to google

Even if Gatlin had been banned for life, Bolt still wouldnt have won lastnight so whats everyone moaning about Gatlin for?

because he robbed him of a Silver.

and why does that matter?

Wouldn't surprise me if Bolt was doping in those 9.58 days...everyone else was. Last night was probably the cleanest final we've had in a while.

Bolt is 6ft5, he takes less steps over 100m and when he does take a step it's over a longer distance than those with shorter legs take, though that's only part of it. He doesn't need drugs, those behind him need drugs to catch up.

Wilt Chamberlain was 7ft1.  He could easily break 9 seconds