Tokyo – In 16 years, when USain Bolt posted his world records in 100 and 200 meters, no one really came close to topping them.
One of the track’s all-time Great and perhaps still its most recognizable star said that he sees today’s top sprinters and does not expect that it will change anytime soon.
“No, I’m not worried,” Bolt said at a puma program on Thursday, two days before the World Championship begins. “I think the talent is there, there are talented athletes coming there, and they will do well. But at this present moment, I do not see any athlete able to break the record, so not worried.”
Bolt set both records – 100 in 200 and 19.58 in 19.19 – in the world in Berlin in 2009.
Since then, only another runner, Johan Blake, has a 9.7 in 100, and only Blake has run faster than 19.3 in 200.
American Noah Lys is the only sprinter that is vocal about putting bolt marks in its sites. In 2023, Liels stirred up when he said he was thinking about the time of 9.65 and 19.10, “I have a good reason to believe that I am going to do something that I have never done before.”
Liles won both sprints in the world that year and pulled out a bolt -like achievement, but has so far crossed 19.31 to escape the 2022 world to break Michael Johnson’s long -held American records.
The fastest 100 meters of this year was posted by another Jamaica, Kishan Thompson, whose 9.75 makes him a favorite title in the Sunday final consisting of Lyles, American Kenny Bednec and another Jamaican, adventurous Sevile.
Bolt predicted the Finnish of 1-2 Jamaica with Thompson and Seville at the top of the podium.
“It’s all about what they can execute – cannot hear noise and execute,” Bolt said.
With his honest strain and 6-foot frame, Australia’s 17-year-old Gout Gout Gout compared to Bolt, as the gout is a little ahead where the bolt was, the time-wise, when he was 17 years old.
Can Gout be a man to break the record of Bolt?
“It is always easy when you are small,” said Bolt. “Infections from juniors to seniors are always difficult. It is all about getting the right coach, getting the right people around you.”
Bolt stated that improving track surfaces and shoes – Puma, for example, released a study results, concluding that he would run 9.42 wearing today’s shoes in Berlin – make it inevitable – her records would fall someday. Not now.
“Everything develops in life, people are trying to be better, trying to get fast,” he said. “This is not really surprising.”
