Here are some interesting facts about Usain Bolt!

•His homeland, Trewalny, produced many world class track and field athletes;

•Usain Bolt’s first sport was cricket:

•Usain Bolt is the youngest ever gold medalist of the World Junior Championship, wins the 200m at age of 15;

•Usain Bolt is the first and the only junior athlete to break sub 20 seconds in 200 metres;

•Usain Bolt's nickname is 'Lightning Bolt’

•Usain Bolt became the first to holds the World records, World Championship records and Olympic Games records at all-three sprint events (100 , 200 and 4x100) at the same time;

•Usain Bolt improved his annual 100m time from 10.03 to 9.69s at Beijing Olympics where he set not only without a favorable wind (0.0ms) and a slow reaction time (0.165s) but also with a celebration at the last 20 metres which significantly slowed him down and his shoelace was untied.

Twitter! On Twitter, Usain Bolt Twits about his live and places he travels to as well as races that he will attend.

"Usain Bolt wins 100m in Rome – Video: Usain Bolt has run 9.91 seconds to defeat rival Asafa Powell on the line a... http://bit.ly/lTexHX" Twitter, May 26.

http://twitter.com/#!/usain_bolt - Here is his Twitter account.

Current Events

Usain Bolt is in the news for any medals or any rivals trying to beat Bolt at running. He also held many interviews on his life and his career.

http://www.topix.com/forum/summer-sports/usain-bolt/T1ASSHUK6DG1COVAD - a news post about Usain Bolt's many rivals.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiz24mjOUg - A interview with Bolt.

Usain Bolt signed a contract to 2013 worth 33.5 million dollars for the Jamaica Running Team.


"I am glad it isn't a lion - the cheetah is much more calm." — Usain Bolt after adopting a cheetah, the fastest animal / November 2009

The fastest animal is simular to Usain Bolt - Usain Bolt is the fastest human, ever. He holds the world record for the 100 meter and 200 meter sprint.

Usain Bolt's Career

Usain Bolt became a professional athlete in 2004 with his coach Fitz Coleman. He started with the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda, where he was the first junior sprinter to run the 200m in less than 20 seconds and broke the world junior record of Roy Martin.





Usain Bolt is now an Olympic champion and holds the Olympic and world records for the 100 meters at 9.58 seconds, the 200 meters at 19.30 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByIDTwMUWeM&feature=related

Usain Bolt now runs for the Jamaica Internation team for 100 200 and 400 meters. He recently signed a contract worth about the same as a famous professional football star, a world record contract. Usain Bolt signed the biggest sports contract in history worth 33.5 million dollars.

Usain Bolt's Childhood

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Bolt was born on 21 of August, 1986 in a small town in Trelawny, Jamaica. He grew up with his parents, Wellesley and Jennifer Bolt, his borhter Sadeeko and his sister Sherine. His parents worked at a local grocery store. He spent his time playing sports with his borther. Usain Bolt used to like football before running. His football coach saw how fast he runs and told him to join track instead.



As a chilld, Usain Bolt attented Waldensia Primary school. That was whe he started to discover the latent sprinting powers inside him. At the age of 12 he bacame the best sprinter in his school.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJM9_uAN4c