Bolt ready for 2016 debut
AFP, George Town :
Usain Bolt will take the first long strides on his road to Rio here Saturday when he makes his 2016 track debut with less than three months to go before the Olympics.
The Jamaican sprint king is planning a successful defence of his 100m, 200m and 4x100m crowns in Brazil, an unprecedented “triple-triple” in what he has said will be his final Olympic games.
The 29-year-old superstar has not competed since winning three gold medals at last August’s World Championships in Beijing and is hoping to use this weekend’s Cayman Invitational to gauge the state of his race fitness.
Bolt, the world record holder over 100m and 200m, runs in the 100m on Saturday at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
“When I left Jamaica everything was good,” Bolt told AFP at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex on Thursday.
“This is my first race, so you never know what to expect, because race fitness is different from training.”
Bolt however believes he is ready to hit the ground running, revealing that training partner Yohan Blake has been in blistering form this year.
“The way I feel I should run a good time, because I train with (Yohan)
Blake, who ran a good time (9.93) already this season,” Bolt said.
Bolt’s competition on Saturday includes training partner Kemar Bailey-Cole and the Cayman Islands’ Kemar Hyman, both of whom have gone below 10 seconds for the 100m.
Usain Bolt will take the first long strides on his road to Rio here Saturday when he makes his 2016 track debut with less than three months to go before the Olympics.
The Jamaican sprint king is planning a successful defence of his 100m, 200m and 4x100m crowns in Brazil, an unprecedented “triple-triple” in what he has said will be his final Olympic games.
The 29-year-old superstar has not competed since winning three gold medals at last August’s World Championships in Beijing and is hoping to use this weekend’s Cayman Invitational to gauge the state of his race fitness.
Bolt, the world record holder over 100m and 200m, runs in the 100m on Saturday at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
“When I left Jamaica everything was good,” Bolt told AFP at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex on Thursday.
“This is my first race, so you never know what to expect, because race fitness is different from training.”
Bolt however believes he is ready to hit the ground running, revealing that training partner Yohan Blake has been in blistering form this year.
“The way I feel I should run a good time, because I train with (Yohan)
Blake, who ran a good time (9.93) already this season,” Bolt said.
Bolt’s competition on Saturday includes training partner Kemar Bailey-Cole and the Cayman Islands’ Kemar Hyman, both of whom have gone below 10 seconds for the 100m.
