'I Won’t Be One of Those': Usain Bolt Explains His Surprising Post-Retirement Plans

Usain Bolt. Photo. FILE

'I Won’t Be One of Those': Usain Bolt Explains His Surprising Post-Retirement Plans

Evans Ousuru 21:40 - 12.04.2025

Decorated sprint legend Usain Bolt explains one the that has never crossed his mind after a fruitful career.

Multiple Olympic champion Usain Bolt remains one of the most decorated sprinter of all time.

With the World Championships set for Tokyo in 2025, athletics will once again take centre stage – but no man has captured the imagination of fans quite as much as Usain Bolt.

Olympics Legacy

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Bolt, 38, created history when he won both the 100 and 200 metre gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. 

To put it into perspective, the Jamaican cruised to victory in 2008, 2012 and 2016 as his more than a decade-long dominance attracted global attention.

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The incredible run began at the Beijing Games in 2008, where the then 21-year-old made a statement victory in China. He extended his dominance to the London Games in 2012 and completed his hat trick in the 2016 version of the Games in Rio de Janeiro.

A year later, Bolt announced retirement after a spare of injuries. Hanging his spikes aged 31 raised eyebrows but Bolt nonetheless had completed his mission.

Bolt has since maintained that he won't come out of retirement unlike other sportsperson's who have done so previously.

"I've seen too many people retire and come back just to make it worse or to shame themselves. I won't be one of those people," Bolt told Yahoo Sports.

World Championships heroics

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Bolt is the most successful male athlete of the World Championships. Bolt is the first athlete to win four World Championship titles in the 200m and is one of the most successful in the 100m with three titles, being the first person to run sub-9.7s and sub-9.6s races.

Bolt improved upon his second 100m world record of 9.69 with 9.58 seconds in 2009 – the biggest improvement since the start of electronic timing.

He has twice broken the 200m world record, setting 19.30 in 2008 and 19.19 in 2009. He has helped Jamaica to three 4x100m relay world records, with the current record being 36.84 seconds set in 2012.