It has been 2,958 days since Usain Bolt retired from competitive athletics with his last race being the men’s 4x100m relay, where the Jamaican team did not finish. The 37-year-old, who is an eight-time Olympic gold medallist and holds three unbeaten world records with his world records of 9.58 seconds in men’s 100m, 19.19 in 200m and 36.84 in 4x100m relay, has now shared how he spends his time at his home and how he now gets out of breath when he walks up the stairs.
Bolt is in Japan for the World Athletics Championships, where he had won a whopping 11 gold medals. When asked if he still runs in an interview with The Guardian, the Jamaican sprint legend said that he gets out of breath when he walks up the stairs needs to work running some laps to get his breathing right. “No, I mostly do gym workouts. I’m not a fan, but I think now that I’ve been out for a while I have to actually start running. Because when I walk up stairs I get out of breath. I think when I start working on it fully again, I will probably have to do some laps just to get my breathing right,” he said.
The 37-year-old, who posed in his trademark ‘To Da World’ pose prior to the 100m finals at Tokyo’s National Stadium earlier this week, is father to five-old daughter Olympian Lightening and four-year-old twin boys, Saint Leo and Thunder. Since his retirement, Bolt has spent most of his time in his mansion in Kingston, Jamaica and the 11-time world champion shared how a normal day goes for him playing lego with his kids and hanging out with the kids.
“Well normally, I wake up just in time to see the kids off to school, and then it depends on what I have to do. If I have nothing to do, I just chill out. I might work out sometimes if I’m in a good mood. I just watch some series and chill until the kids come home. I spend some time with them, hang out, until they start annoying me then I leave. And then afterwards, I just stay at home and watch movies or I’m into Lego now, so I do Lego,” shared Bolt.
At Tokyo, 24-year-old Oblique Seville became the first Jamaican man to win a world 100m title since Bolt won the title in the world championships in Rio De Janeiro nine years ago. While Bolt would compete against the likes of Tyson Gay, Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin, no male sprinter has broken the 9.70 seconds time since the Lausanne Diamond League in 2012. When asked about the present crop of 10m sprinters Noah Lyles, Kishan Thompson and Seville being not as quick as of his generation with the advances in spike and track technology, Bolt was quick to answer. “You want the real answer? We’re just more talented. 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. You have Shelly, who has got the new spikes, and she ran faster. So it’s just the talent. We’re just way more talented men over that time. It shows if you look at it,” Bold said.
While Bolt was watching the World Championship for the first time since his retirement, the athletics legend shared how he plans to make his kids watch the next world championships in Beijing, a place where he won his first Olympic title. “ “I’m excited because I get to bring my kids and I can tell them: ‘Listen, this is where it all happened.’ I’ve shown my kids videos and stuff like that. They’ll be six and seven, and they’ll kind of understand the moment, and I can explain to them what their dad has done over the years.” said Bolt.
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