Track and field legend Usain Bolt talks about famous decision to leave sport when he was at his prime. #usainbolt #usainboltrunning #grahamnortonshow #olympics #trackandfield
Disagree. Letting the young bulls come in, beat you and continuing the cycle of top dawg is in my opinion more beautiful and natural. Nobody beats time. Someone will eventually beat Bolts record, it’s happens in every sport.
Agreed fully, he is one of the greatest athlete, legend, a hard worker and a genetic individual talent, but the real reason for his retirement and lack of motivation was mostly the development of ped testing and the new subject lists of the wada. and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this to diminish his achievements, but because it's true.
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Not all evidently all world records won't be able to be broken, there has to be a stopping point. For example nobody is going to run the 100M in 5 seconds are they!
Best to be able to retire young at the top of your game than to retire older when your whole body is falling apart and you are not able to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Thanks for representing us so well Usain. You are the greatest!!! RESPECT!!!🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
And worse, have to become a steroid guinea pig like gatlin, have the whole region laughing at you being best tryhard, only to have your heart explode like flojo later on in life 🇹🇹
@@kingmoreorless2810 in your little copium NPC pea brain yes he was 'clean' but in REALITY, you know the reality you can't handle nobody is clean and that is OK.
@@anonymouscitizen123why is reason for doing football is because he loved football and he never really done anything great there so he would be motivated but it's a young is like he didn't know😂
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@@fabiancarreno7427 Its not bro, before him there was asafa and gatlin and that wasnt like 50 years ago, it was 2 or 3 years before usain won his first olympics, so the person who might beat the 9.58 might be arround the corner, its a matter of time, obviously this person wont beat usain´s record by running the 100m in 8.72 seconds, but who knows, human beings evolve ;)
@@fabiancarreno7427Possibly IF it's more than just a human accomplishment (that is PEDs). In reality, if Bolt's runs were truly "clean," I would expect them to be exceeded in the next 20 years. It's the same reason women's 100m thru 800m records (all set in the 1980's) are still there after 34+ years.
@@dubsteplovingginger Yes it will. Since Bolt era the fastest 100m time has been 9.80. if you ran 9.80 when Bolt ran a 9.58 you would have been 5th or 6th.
@@dubsteplovinggingerit will eventually be beat, sure. But how long will it take? The McLaren F1 held the top speed record until the Bugatti Veyron. How many years did that take?
@@RasT108That last race when they really started to clamp down on the drug use EVERYONE slowed down. People who still think that ALL of them don't juice are just living in fairytale land.
It seems like someone will break his 200m record relatively soon, a couple guys have gotten pretty close. His 100m record on the other hand, is one of the biggest leaps forward we have ever seen. It could be another 40-50 years before it's broken. That's how far ahead he set the bar.
@@michaelshields6326I know neither of us truly know, but I doubt either will be broken soon. And full disclosure, I wanna acknowledge that I was wrong once already. I thought Michael Johnson's 19.32 would last at least 50 years. I thought 19.32 would be safer than a FloJo 10.49 19.19 is insane.
Blake actually covered the distance quicker than Bolt's 200m record, but had slower reaction time. Blake was amazing - just unlucky to be running at the same time as bolt lol.
Take the first half of your sentence, leave off the last part. Not everyone is gonna achieve or smash their goals, but if you truly did your best and can live with knowing that fact, even if you failed, then you'll have peace, I think
@@mainr7142 I'll take ALL of your statement....apart from the ..."I think". THE greatest thing any human can have is....peace of mind. If one tried,but "failed",if they walk away with no regrets....then they are a winner. Hope you see my point?❤
@@Zz-lm1no You have missed the point. I know of many who have expensive cars,big houses,great salary etc but the moment 8 out of 10 of them spend 5 minutes talking,you can see the stress/fear. Switch that to guys I know whom work in convenience stores or two I know who work like me,as a carer. They KNOW they might never earn fortunes,but they are happy, content,able to pay their bills but they have "peace of mind". It is a priceless thing
I remember watching him set the 100m world record live, that was back in 2009, 15 years ago! And still no one has come close nor does it look like anyone will for a long long time. Usain Bolt wasn’t just a once in a generation kind of athlete, he’s a once in a lifetime kind of athlete.
After getting to the zenith of any mountain you must go down into the valley and that is what he is expressing. That “depressed” feeling comes after winning the award, speaking on the stage, getting married (honeymoon stage ends), graduating and getting your diploma or degree, things that you have worked so hard to get or achieve etc etc. it is normal to have a lack of motivation therefore it is critical for you to take the time to discover what is NEXT to give you renewed Zeal and Zest for the next Zenith!
Maybe one day Usian Bolt's record will be beaten, maybe not... But his legacy will prevail, not because of his records but because he showed the world what others before him had thought was impossible... What Usian Bolt, Michael Phelps did for the world of sports in general and for their individual sport is thankless...❤
@@mustang8206 Sooner than we think. If we look at the history of the 100m records it was beaten quite regulary, every 3-5 years a new guy show up. So I will see the recod getting beaten a few times before I die. Will I ever see again an athlete having such a dominant career I'm much less certain.
@@MrOmerDalorNah it's gonna take a while for someone to beat that record, it's already stood for 15 years and sprinters have gotten far slower than they were then. Mostly due to Bolt quite literally bringing up the competition and making the other athletes run faster to compete with him, also there's just less talent now than then. But yeah probably in our life times it'll fall as everything advances
He's so humble. N to know that many olympians train their entire lives for just 1 event. Even if u get gold, there's no guarantee of money or sponsors to have (as also stated in the documentay 'The Weight of Gold': depending on the sport) but Usain knows this and respects everyone who works hard for it ❤
Thank you. Most just look at the spotlights and not the background. Man was a freak of nature. His running form was nonexistent, and his height was unheard of. Once he was upright and running, if you weren't already ahead of him, there was no catching him. He was just that good. Still pissed at 2008, him slowing down at 20m still irks my soul. If he had run all the way through the line, his time would have been I BELIEVE 9.5 or so.
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Am 46 and my whole body in ache and pains so why not maybe if have stopped working in health care 21 years ago a migth be in a healthier position in my body?. So I think early retirement in any job is best to do or think about the after effect 😢😢😢😢😢.
I don't consider retiring after competing in three Olympics to be an early retirement. Especially in the events he competed in. Although Allyson Felix, competed for quite some time in the Olympics.
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9.58 is a tough record but with advancing technology being released every year, it will be broken soon. New types of tracks, shoes, and the right person with the right stride ratio and the record will be gone. As a Jamaican, we hope that it's never broken but if so, let it be by another Jamaican.
15 years and no-one has gone sub 9.7 since. Unless we are talking about a springbok self-identifying as a human, or a genetically modified man, I doubt it will happen soon.
2008-2009 has the FASTEST HUMAN BEING levels of sprinting capabilities it's been more than a fucking decade and no one comes close to 9.7s and still you live in a delusion just like that 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂loll
What you don't understand is humans are reaching the pinnacle of athleticism, which is why records are only getting minutely broken instead of big record jumps like before
@@williamfarr9129 yeah, they have been saying that since the beginning, humans cannot physically run faster, and yet it keep happening. It's called evolution. Where there's a will, there's a way
@@cesardiaz3002 look at the rate at which the record gets broken, it has majorly slowed down and this is because we are hitting a physical limit of muscle and fast twitch complexities
@@williamfarr9129 I agree to a point. As we stand right now we are reaching a pinnacle but it is matter of time that we evolved yet again and the race will start all over again.humans have defy logic and science and I know they are limits for this generation but in 200 years those limits will be blur
Nah white athletes now run under 10. It was believed to be impossible 10 years ago. As soon as a black kid gets to be 6'3" and has Bo Jacksons quick start, we'll see that record beat. Now sub 9:40 is another story, that might take 50 years. Mathematically speaking it was unthinkable in the 20th century that anyone on any kind of enhancement could go bellow 9:70, mere 8 years into the 21st century he did it more than twice.
Of the 30 fastest 100m times ever, 9 - including the top three - have been run by Bolt. Incredible as it seems, the other 21 were run by athletes who have tested positive at some point in their careers for doping. (2016, The Independent)
Man Usain Bolt is special as a kid i was watching teach and he was the first person I laid eyes on when it came to track and their will never be another person like him.
Three consecutive Olympics Dominance, no other human being has ever accomplished that feat , thats says it all, no need for him to continue Running. That the greatest achievement right there 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
He wasn't just fast, he was an entertainer through and through. It will be hard for anyone to captivate the audience like he did. I mean, has any track and field athlete ever been more mainstream? Nah, not globally.
9.58s UNBREAKABLE. For the next 50yrs .. There isn't a 6'5" Human with 4.3m stride per second and 10.4m/s speed with 40 steps for the 100m ALIVE...This is what it will take to break 9.58s
That's a boss level answer ❤😂 it's amazing to think that champions come in all shapes and sizes. But there's one thing they all have in common that arrogant, self-belief. The almost narcissistic conviction that I am the best .....this guy is a true champion ❤😂
For someone to beat his record, it would have to be someone who has his same physical make up/height/ground contact speed and turnover. Just don’t see it…the odds of finding similar characteristics and athleticism is too rare. He WILL BE the greatest of ALL time for generations, after generation, after generation
8 billion people. at least a few others will have physical potential to be able to beat him no? new training methods... new regulations (dont nitpick on regulations point)... etc. everything stands to point that at least in the time from now to the end of human history, someone will beat usain bolt's record? Well it's almost certain. No matter how you try to phrase it with pseudo science, you are statistically: exaggerating/wrong.
USA got plenty of the same type athletes but they play football or basketball, Jamaica put allot of effort in track, it's just the 10 popular sport here, surprised noa Lyle ain't playing basketball with his height it's rare American that height run track
Totally understand, after 23 yrs in the military, and after 9/11 and a Med deployment with pirate ship raids, I had NO motivation to do 30 yrs. Sometimes, I wish I did 30, and other times I don't. My only regret was not getting orders to SHAPE in Belgium and I haven't visited there yet. I saw ALL my History class favorite countries, Iceland, Greece, Guam, Spain, Italy, the Azores.. Started in Florida for Bootcamp and Retired in Florida. Funny thing, it's what I said I was going to do in my HS yearbook. I love retirement
Blake's 200m was faster than Bolts before wind adjustment, and he also covered the distance faster after his start (because Bolt's reaction was faster, his overal time was also faster) so it's conceivable that the 200 record could fall (although we've hardly seen an athlete on par with Blake never mind Bolt) Nobody has ever come within a tenth of a second of his 100 time, I think that will stand until the sun explodes. To call the guy a generational talent is an unspeakable understatement - I think we've seen the marathon equivalent in Kelvin Kiptum, but I'm just sorry he never had the chance to put his world record completely out of sight for the next 100 years
@009Daft600 well yes, but being able to run 100m in under 9.6s or a marathon in under 2hrs aren't exactly selection pressures - obviously we become more efficient and we'll develop better gear and training regimes in the future, but these are narrow advantages that won't single handedly take 0.2s off your 100m or 2 minutes off your marathon - in our own lifetimes, we won't see another like Bolt or Kiptum, that's what I'm saying
@@joelmacinnes2391you dont need selective pressure. every single record in history was done with practically the same genetic makeup. the difference IS in culture, information and technology
I remember exactly where I was when he set the current world record almost 15 years ago. Bolt is an iconic, entertaining, era-defining, and truly electrifying athlete. I absolutely loved watching him. He deserves a long and happy retirement
I think someone with the talent of Bolt who will not slow down towards the end will get a record one day, I’m not saying he never tried but he could’ve had a bigger record in 2012 according to his coach, he said himself his coach was unhappy with him in his autobiography.
@@ollielynch4733not really, if you have extreme passion for the sport you’ll continue, look at Ronaldo and Messi, they coulda retired but they still continue