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Usain Bolt seeks to repeat ‘living legend’ status at London Olympics
“Not correct,” Mills said. “Usain has not played any form of soccer this year in any charity game.”
Bolt did miss the end of the 2010 season with back trouble. He is unusually tall, 6-foot-5 – which makes his ability to burst out of the starting blocks that much more amazing, and has scoliosis, a curvature of the lower spine that has required special attention for years.
“The problem is not going to go away,” Mills said. “It’s a lifetime thing he has to deal with. He does the type of warmup, preparation, he needs to do when he runs. We stick with routines and it works well with us over the years, so we continue.”
During last year or so, there was talk that Bolt might try to add the 1,600-meter relay to his repertoire, which would give him a chance to become the first man since Lewis in 1984 to win four gold medals in athletics at the Olympics. More recently, however, that talk has died down.
So, with less than three months before the Olympics, what, exactly, should sports fans expect from the world’s fastest man? Bolt, who enjoys his role as showman as much as sprinter, isn’t trying to diminish expectations. He wants to be a living legend.
“After the London Games, people should say, ‘Wow,’” Bolt said.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
