Catch Usain Bolt on Puma duty in Tokyo 🇯🇲⚡️
Usain Bolt, who is in Tokyo on ambassadorial duty for longtime sponsor Puma and for World Athletics, shared his thoughts during a Puma press conference ahead of the World Championships.
On today’s new “super spikes,” Bolt admitted he was impressed by the advances in shoe technology:
“One individual that continued after I retired was actually Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. I saw what she did… she got the pass, and she got the spike. To be honest, I felt like I probably would have run way faster if I had continued. If I knew spikes looked like that, maybe I wouldn’t — because it wouldn’t be fair to compete, and I probably wouldn’t be that fast.”
On whether he was thinking about records during his career:
“It was never about breaking all the records. It was just about winning, trying to win Olympic gold medals. We put in a lot of work, especially in 2008, but it was always about being the best I could be. The records just happened.”
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