“Why you worried? I’m the one running!”
Un reportaj frumos in Guardian, semnat Anna Kessel, despre unul din putinii sportivi care au dreptul sa spuna “still love to party and still hate to train”, pentru ca recordurile mondiale inchid instant gura oricarui contestatar. Doua fragmente mi-au placut in mod special. Cel in care Bolt povesteste despre dialogul cu tatal sau in timpul Jocurilor Olimpice, tatal sau refuzand sa zboare la Beijing din cauza avioanelor. Engleza jamaicana face toti banii:
Back home in Jamaica, Bolt’s father could not share his relaxed approach. Wellesley, who dislikes flying, had not travelled to Beijing and instead called his son ahead of the 100m final. “My dad he was nervous man,” Bolt says. “He was like: ‘Yo, you not worried? We worried down here.’ I was like: ‘Why you worried? I’m the one running, you just watching. Come on!’ What you worried about?’” (…) He refuses to worry about competing. “My philosophy is if I can run faster than you, you not going to beat me. If I have a bad day, yes, but if I have a good day no. I don’t see why I’ve got to worry about you when you’re slower than me,” he says.
Super tare si dezvaluirea dialogului pe care l-a avut cu americanul Walter Dix in calificarile de la Jocurile Olimpice:
“During the build-up to the 100m final in Beijing, the American sprinter Walter Dix tried to mess with Bolt’s head, a trick he will not try again in a hurry. “This is the first time I’ve ever said this,” says Bolt, leaning in confidentially, “but after the semi-finals he said to me: ‘There ain’t going to be no jogging in the final.’ I said: ‘What?’ Then I ran and I shut it down.” Bolt grins. Dix came away with a bronze medal, but one can only imagine how he felt watching Bolt “jog” those last 10m to claim victory and a world record in 9.69.


