“Could you be loved?”, it rattled from the loudspeakers in the Beijing stadium before the highly anticipated attraction of the IAAF World Championships folded his long body into the starting blocks. Reggae, Bob Marley, sure.
No cliché is too large in the choreography for the greatest. But: Could you be loved? What a superfluous question. Usain Bolt is loved, revered, he is honored.
It was a forward at 9.97 seconds, a usual sovereign Aufgalopp for the man who Sunday in the 100-meter final (15.15 clock CEST) is not the natural favorite for the first time in seven years.
This has to do firstly with the fastest time of the world number one Justin Gatlin (9.74 compared to Bolt’s 9.87 seconds). Secondly, with the uncertainty of whether Bolt comes back within striking distance in time after his Rückenmalaisen.
A problem with the sacroiliac joint, which connects the ilium with the lower part of the spine, Bolts medical officer Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt had diagnosed early July. Ironically, the fastest man in the world, what irony, ran out of time.
Now he thinks he is fit enough for well-known, new miracles. “Bolt is a champion who knows nothing but excellence when he performs on the world stage,” said his coach Glen Mills. But he also admits: “I would have liked to see him run more races the last two years have been a great challenge, both for Usain as well as for me..”
A variety of injuries has made changes in training required. Bolt himself admits that he must now work much harder. Things no longer fly to him.
But that he would be the zenith? “Pah,” he replies bored, “it is not the first time that I get asked that. That always happens when I’m hurt or even return. I’m trying to make me do not worry, have simply ignored what to me was talked about. “
When Usain Bolt with open laces cheered
In Beijing Bolt commits to return those place where he left seven years ago amazed the world. Although the Schlaks had already won world silver over 200 meters of 2007. But that he would sweep at the Olympics in Beijing then so rapidly across the web, so that was not expected.
The August 16, 2008 at any rate went down in history. And would the 1.96-meter sprinter his own world record pushed not one year later at the World Championships on insane 9.58 seconds, around the world, sports fans would probably still ask: Where were you on the night, as the Usain Bolt 100 meters in 9.69 seconds running?
Since then, Bolt won five more Olympic gold medals, and he lost only one World Cup race when he 2011 100-meter final was disqualified for a false start.
But it is not only the great deeds that make Jamaica’s best live a kind of legend. There are many little things that made him a brand.
At that time, on that warm summer evening in Beijing, he has 15 meters before the finish with outstretched let coasts arms; a lace his spikes had opened in the race; in athletes canteen the Olympic Village, he was supposed to go at night to eat chicken nuggets; after victories (and often before) and he mimed mimes an archer – a now almost iconic image. Moreover his famous penchant for music, parties and fast cars.
Usain Bolt has remained down to earth
Despite the panache of his career and although hundreds of millions of Los Angeles to Manila to know his face, Bolt is never lifted. The affirm people who are close to him. One lesson that people already befalls that even talk longer with Bolt. Bolt is friendly, relaxed, open-minded, while not binding, a philanthropist. Bolt is a phenomenon.
to 18.4 million euros his annual income is taxed. About half of them controls the sporting goods giant Puma in reportedly. The rest feeds primarily from lucrative advertising contracts and starting money.
In this World Cup Bolts role will now again heightened. It is the highly anticipated, rare duel with Justin Gatlin, 33, to.
The dramaturgy sees a clear division of roles before: Here the noble, the flying hearts – there the unrepentant American villain who already abbrummte two doping barriers and today, strangely enough, as nimble runs than ever
Bolt against Gatlin -. a duel like Ali vs. Foreman
The? cant do not like Bolt, from which he does not hide. . For the case of ex-Dopers Gatlin – Saturday even behave sprinting in 9.83 seconds first of its forward travel – he has only this statement: “There are rules, and indeed for some reason when he is allowed to return, I can not change that I. ‘m no head about what problems it causes. “
That in Beijing for World Cup start, neither the American Association of Athletics Federations nor his sponsor Nike Gatlin prepared a stage, speaks for itself. “A victory of Usain Bolt on doping scammers Justin Gatlin would be like Muhammad Ali’s triumph over George Foreman” oint the British newspaper “Daily Mail”.
Why do we look at the 100 meters?
is obvious in all this, that is precisely the discipline Sprint Entertainment provokes ambivalent feelings. If hosts have run significantly slower demonstrably of doped muscle packets over decades as the fastest man in the world – which is then good or bad? One reason for suspicion or not?
Bolt served the desire of the audience on spectacle, on the extraordinary. Where it occurs, juchzen is programmed. Sports sociologists such as Karl-Heinrich Bette observe the phenomenon with interest.
we opt for a hero-worship, this works as a rule only by suppression of existing knowledge about the widespread forms of illegitimate advantage procurement in professional sports. “Fans keep then consciously old Cleanliness insinuations firmly”
What says the Darmstadt University Professor. Is behind the denial of reality? “Ultimately, the great fear of sport spectators who question their own enthusiasm or even needing to give up. In order to prevent exactly this will also continue to deceive millions of self and refrain from the looking away and Herumlavieren of organizations to look,” says Bette. So there is – seen sarcastically – continue to hope for the ailing IAAF
Two years for Usain Bolt
Over the past seven years, the world governing body has made recognizable drag from his Jamaican Zirkuszugpferd. Bolt as the “savior of athletics” blustered not only the outgoing IAAF President Lamine Diack, 82. Even the International Olympic Committee benefited dazzling PR with Bolt.
In the global sports business of Jamaicans has become overarching idol to a continent. Whether in America, Europe or Asia – the audience loves him for his faxes as well as for its elegance and medal collection. Only Bolt succeeds on announcement to combine unbelievable with incredible ease. He is the most reliable express delivery service of athletics.
that expectations could overwhelm the young man who has never been seen. Friday he celebrated his 29th birthday. Until the World Cup in 2017 in London Usain St. Leo Bolt plans from Sherwood Content to run at the Jamaican north coast yet. Provided there is nothing unpleasant in between.
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