By Usain Bolt
Усэйн Сент-Лео Болт — ямайский легкоатлет, специализируется в беге на короткие дистанции, шестикратный олимпийский чемпион и восьмикратный чемпион мира. За время выступлений установил eight мировых рекордов. The autobiography of the quickest guy of all time and a celebrity whose expertise and air of mystery have made him probably the most well-known humans in the world. during this, his complete autobiography, Usain tells his tale in his personal phrases: from humble beginnings in Jamaica, to foreign stardom at Beijing and directly to the recent heights of superstardom he has reached seeing that lights up London 2012.
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Because his programme had worked so many times in the past, he believed it would work with me. Out of desperation I suggested that maybe he should converse with some of my old coaches from William Knibb, just to find out how I worked best. No chance. Coach Coleman believed in his system, and no amount of complaining from me was going to change that. Damn, it hurt. I explained how it was to Mom and Dad; I explained to Mr Peart that I was a square peg being forced into a round hole, but none of them would listen to me – they thought I was slacking.
Fans were talking me up as the successor to Michael Johnson – and it made sense. At 16, I was making times that he hadn’t touched until the age of 20; one Jamaican politician even called me ‘the most phenomenal sprinter ever produced by the island’. It was pretty clear that I wouldn’t have to worry too hard about my college choices after William Knibb, because quite a few American coaches were coming at me with the promise of a sports scholarship. I realised that, if I wanted, I could have my pick of any US college I wanted.
My confidence and self-belief had faded for the first time, I guess because I hadn’t experienced pressure or national expectation before. It was all new. My previous races had been fun, even when I was representing Jamaica at CARIFTA. But this fresh stress, the stress my rivals had experienced at Champs and high-school meets (but normally washed over me), meant my head couldn’t focus on the race ahead. Coach kept working on me. He told me that I had to go to training camps every weekend because he wanted to see if I could improve my times.