Article by Claudiu Badea – Published on Sunday, April 06, 2025, 09:27 / Updated Sunday, April 6, 2025 09:28
Despite the fact that Usain Bolt (38 years old) has retired from the professional career, his records still remain unbeatable. Jamaican has achieved an unmatched performance at the World Athletics Championship in Berlin, in 2009: 9.58 seconds per hundred meters.
The reality is that, after 16 years, no one has managed to overcome this record, to which is added the Olympic Record (9.63) established three years later, in London, in 2012. Now, the Jamaican, who has won eight Olympic gold medals, thinks he has a successor.
Usain Bolt believes that records can be shot down
Usain Bolt chose Jamaican Oblique Sevilleat the age of 24, the right athlete with the greatest potential to beat the records, ignoring, for example, Kishane Thompson, all his compatriot, who finished in second place, according to Noah Lyles, in the 100-meter final of the French capital, last summer.
“I feel that oblique can succeed. If it stays fit throughout the season, if everything goes well, I feel it has the capacity, I am sure it has something special, it has the necessary ability ”the former athlete praise, according to the ball.
“Sometimes, oblique can be fragile, but it is a matter of work. If he will work hard, he will succeed. It's just a matter of time ”added Usain Bolt.
Oblique Seville already exceeded on the current world champion
Seville has already defeated the current world champion at 100 meters, Lyles, at Racers Grand Prix, in June 2024, and his best time at a hundred meters is 9.81 seconds: “The fact that I ran 9.81, knowing that my physique is not fully developed, shows that I have a lot of improvement, both technically and from the point of view,” said Seville, Bolt.
“I do not feel any pressure. I am like the others, I give everything I can,” added Seville quoted by the same source.
