2012 (Official Details) Usain Bolt: I’m Not a Track Legend Unless I Rule At London Olympics

He took Olympic gold in 2008 over 100 metres, 200m and in the 4 x 100m relay, all in world-record times.

But Bolt — under pressure from fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake in an injury-plagued 2012 build-up — insisted:
"Winning an Olympics once is not the mark of a great athlete."

“Anyone can win one. You have to do it again if you are to stand out from the crowd.”

Bolt followed his Beijing triumph by breaking the 100m and 200m records again at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009.

But Blake won the 100m at the last Worlds in Korea — after Bolt was disqualified — and then beat the great man over 100m and 200m at the Jamaican trials.

There have been worries about Bolt’s fitness in the wake of those defeats with his back and hamstring troubles flaring up again.

But his agent Ricky Simms insists that is all sorted and his man is “good to go”.

Bolt, though, may never run an Olympic 100m or 200m again after London.
While he is committed to taking part in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil he is thinking of other disciplines.

His coach Glen Mills has tried to persuade his student to switch to 400m.
Bolt has also dabbled with the long jump with leaps into the pit at his Racers Track Club in Kingston.

He admitted: “I might do the 400m and the long jump in Brazil which finishes on my 30th birthday.
“Then I will have one more season and that will be it.
“I won’t be running by the time I’m 32 — you could offer me 50 million dollars and I wouldn’t do it.”

Bolt has ambitions beyond athletics. He claims he wants to play professional football and that his favourite team, Manchester United, should sign him up.
He said with a glint in his eye: “Alex Ferguson hasn’t seen me play, so you never know. There will be no one faster than me at the club — that’s for sure.”

Away from sport he wants a family and eventually to settle down but children will come before marriage.

He said: “I want to get married some day but that will be after I retire from track and field, not before.
“I do want children though, sometime after the next Olympics.”

But he is worried a son will be thrust into the limelight.
He said: “From the moment he can stand he will be expected to run to the shop quicker than anyone else in the village.
“I’d prefer him to do another sport — maybe he will be the footballer.”