Usain Bolt gives up on setting new world records: ‘It’s all beyond me now’

Usain Bolt holds the world records in the 100 and 200 metres, with both recrods set at the 2009 world championships in Berlin. Phil Noble / Reuters

The National, Wed, Sep 14, 2016

Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt has said he does not expect to break anymore world records as his illustrious athletics career enters its final stages.

Bolt, 30, last month completed his Olympic career by securing a sweep of the sprint titles in Rio for a third successive Games.

It was at the first of those Games, at Beijing 2008, that Bolt stormed to his first pair of world records of 9.69 seconds in the 100m and 19.30 seconds in the 200m...


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