: Legends of the Olympic Games: Usain Bolt, the record-breaking Jamaican who redefined sprinting #IndiaNEWS In this series ahead of Tokyo 2020, we will take a look at athletes who have been an integral

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Legends of the Olympic Games: Usain Bolt, the record-breaking Jamaican who redefined sprinting #IndiaNEWS
In this series ahead of Tokyo 2020, we will take a look at athletes who have been an integral part of the Olympic Games folklore over the past century and more.Usain Bolt: Like lightningFactfile: Olympic Medals: 8 GoldOlympi Games participations: 4First Olympic Games: Athens 2004Year of Birth: 1986Usain Bolt has been, quite simply, the face of the last three Olympic Games. To win the event’s blue riband event, the 100m, just once, guarantees Olympic immortality. To do it three times at consecutive Games, and add the 200m and 4x100m relay titles to the mix, gives him a good case to be considered the greatest athlete of all time. Still only 33, he is a living legend. Add real charm and humour to the mix, and Bolt has been the superstar that the Games needed over the last decade and a bit. The fastest man the world has ever seen, “Lightning Bolt� shot to worldwide fame in Beijing in 2008 as the first man to win both the 100m and 200m since American Carl Lewis in 1984.He went on to become the only man to complete the sprint double twice when he repeated the feat in London – and then swept all before him for a third time in Rio. The charismatic Jamaican smashed both...Read more

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