The Fastest Man Alive by Usain Bolt

Author:Usain Bolt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781613210673
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

WITHOUT ANY

WARNING, WE STARTED SKIDDING

ACROSS THE ROAD...

THE CAR SPUN

ROUND AND WE

SHOT BACKWARDS...

Ridiculously, having rolled the BMW three times, smashed it to bits and somehow escaped without a bruise or a scratch, I got hurt walking on thorn prickles in the ditch because I had no shoes on. I stepped on the thorns three or four times as I was wrestling with the door to help one of the girls out.

We were taken to hospital in Spanish Town and the doctors tried removing the thorns, but there were quite a number stuck in my foot and they didn’t make a great job of it, although I’m most appreciative of all that the doctors did for me that day. If Mom had been there it would have been fine; she used to pull thorns out all the time after I’d been playing in the fields around our house.

But a thorn or two in my foot was a small price to pay. I must be blessed, because everyone in that car could have died. There should be no way you can flip a car like that and come out of it as well as we did.

I don’t have flashbacks about it. Yes, car crashes in films bring it back to me, but I don’t have nightmares in bed or anything, I’m just thankful I’m still here. I’ve had three car crashes in my life and this was the worst. I’ve been very lucky.

The prickles in my foot prevented me from training for almost two weeks, but I decided to go ahead with a special 150m race being held on the streets of Manchester in England. I was keen to do it. I liked the idea of taking athletics to the people in a city center. All we had to do was lay out a track down the middle of the street and get on with it. My foot was hurting and felt like there was something still sticking into it, so I had to run on it at an angle to stop the pain. It wasn’t ideal but I could manage and it made the race more of a challenge.

Coach wasn’t sure about me doing it, but I wanted to try. It was something different which helped the profile of athletics and I didn’t want to let the organisers down. I like the concept of just turning up and running with no stadium required. You couldn’t do it for the javelin or the hammer but you can for a sprint race.

It was a horrible day, with rain pouring down during the heats. I’d been allowed to miss them and just race the final, which fortunately was when the sun came out. The wet weather made the track bouncy and I broke the world record in a time of 14.35 seconds. Though the 150m is not an official distance in our sport, it was good to be back after the crash with no ill effects.

I’d had very little time to prepare because of the

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