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Bolt, the greatest sprinter of all time reminisces 2014 as worst year in his career with injuries restricting him to just four races.
Jamaican sprints legend Usain Bolt has revealed the nightmare he faced while using crutches after undergoing surgery in 2014.
The three-time Olympic 100m champion was set to race in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow but felt frustrated because of the knee injury that restricted Bolt to just four races the whole year.
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Bolt loved all the short distance races but 400m was never his long-term priority even though he preferred it early in his trophy-laden career.
After surgery, the three-time Olympic 200m champion was instructed by the doctor to walk using crutches, something that did not resonate well with the fastest man over 100m.
“I was not fast on crutches. That was my first time, so I had no idea how to use them. They’re not fun at all. I just tried to take it as easy as possible, but my coach wanted me to keep moving because my toe went numb," Bolt told Talk Sport.
"That whole time I just tried to focus on the positive and not worry too much," he added.
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The 11-time world champion revealed how training with pain for a while made surgery inevitable but the pain was a tough thing to bear.
“With my foot, it was just a pain. Constant pain; constant pain. I trained through it for a couple of weeks, and it would not go away. I went to see my doctor, and he said: ‘You can treat it, and it’s gonna stop. But then it will come back, so it makes sense to do a surgery. So we had to do a surgery,” he reminisces.
Bolt competed in his only Commonwealth Games in 2014. He anchored Jamaica's 4x100m relay team to the gold. It was in Glasgow where also Bolt revealed his retirement plans.
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