How Usain Bolt found motivation again to win 100 metres gold at the Rio Olympics

“I retrieve successful 2016, it was coming up to my past Olympics and my biggest rival was Justin Gatlin and passim the twelvemonth I was struggling with information due to the fact that I had won everything… and I was similar going to grooming and the older you get the harder it gets. I was conscionable bushed and mundane was similar enactment and I got injured and it was treble the enactment for me. It was hard to motivate myself everyday,” Bolt told the High Performance podcast.

But Gatlin saying that helium would question astir the satellite with the Olympic medal astir his cervix motivated Bolt to bid harder than helium was successful bid to decorativeness atop the podium astatine the Rio Olympics.

“I retrieve watching a video, helium (Gatlin) was connected a podcast astatine that clip and they said ‘are you going to win? And helium said ‘yeah I americium going to win’. And they were going to spell connected a circuit astir the satellite with medals and that did it for me. I was similar ‘yeah, you are not going to win’. That is however competitory I was. If I astir apt didn’t spot the video, it astir apt would person been different. But I saw that video and it helped motivate me. You cognize what ‘I request to get to grooming and I request to bash this’. Because determination is nary mode I americium going to let him to bushed me. That is however competitory I am,” Bolt said.

Bolt, present retired, besides spoke astir the pre-race regular of Gatlin and different sprinters.

“It is ever fun, I enjoyed watching Justin due to the fact that it is amusive to spot him successful his constituent due to the fact that helium does this happening wherever helium walks backmost and distant similar a brainsick person. And helium is superior and I ever find it truthful comic and amusing due to the fact that that is his mode of psyching himself up though. It is thing that they bash but I ever knew that if I was prepared determination was nary mode you were going to bushed me. There is nary mode you are going to intimidate me.”

Spitting crossed the track

Gatlin, the 2004 Athens gold-medal winner, tried to scare Bolt the archetypal clip they raced against each other.
“I retrieve the archetypal clip I competed with Justin, helium spit crossed my lane. We were successful Zagreb and you cognize erstwhile you lukewarm up and tally retired of your blocks and I was walking backmost (in the lane) and helium was walking towards me. And helium spit crossed the lane successful beforehand of me. And I laughed due to the fact that I knew what helium was trying to do. But it didn’t substance to maine due to the fact that each that matters is erstwhile we enactment up successful that lane and the weapon goes you amended beryllium ready.”