In case you missed it… Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt bounced back from a shock 100m defeat in Rome to ease to victory in the 200m at the recent Oslo Diamond League at the Bislett Stadium. Bolt returned to somewhere close to his best by running 19.79sec, the fastest 200m of the year. Norway’s [...]
Usain Bolt came under fire a few days ago when he posted the above photo on Instagram. The Caribbean Olympian came under attack by anti-drugs campaigners, who voiced that the sprinter he was not using wise judgment by promoting T-shirts made by US firm The Pothead Diaries, which celebrates the use of marijuana. Bolt is no [...]
Caribbean celebrities, locals and foreigners are finally unwinding after a climatic Bacchanal Jamaica 2013. After weeks of events, Carnival shows and fetes, Jamaica ended Carnival 2013 with fine style. Touted as one of Jamaica’s best carnival season thus far, local celebrities were in full effect, including world reigning sprint champion, Usain Bolt. The fastest man [...]
World sprint sensation Usain Bolt is to run in the Cayman Islands for the first time. Bolt, the six-time Olympic gold medalist and world record holder, will compete in the second annual Cayman Invitational athletic meet in May. Bolt will be joined by other world-class athletes, including Beijing Olympic silver medalist Kerron Stewart, Olympic record [...]
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has been named sportsman of the year at the prestigious Laureus Sports Awards, officials announced Monday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Usain Bolt has won his third Laureus Award after another dominant Olympic performance on the track at London, winning the gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.Another, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, [...]
According to the Daily Mail, the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, will earn a staggering £10,000-a-second when he runs the 200m at the Paris Diamond League meeting this summer. The triple Olympic champion will earn £200,000 as he warms up for the World Championships in August by competing in the French capital on [...]
Dancehall singjay Christopher Martin goes hard in his new music video for his single “Mi Friend Dem,” off the 2012 Corner Shop riddim. Check out the RD Studios-directed video with special cameos appearances by some of Martin’s “fren dem” – track God Usain Bolt, athlete Jermaine Gonzalez dancehall, radio disc jockey ZJ Liquid and fellow [...]
Usain Bolt can run rings around a track, but does he have skills on the basketball court? The world record holder and celebrated double Olympic 100metre, 200m and 4x100m champion who is also known for his cricket and football skills, played at Friday’s NBA All-Star celebrity game in Houston. Bolt, played under coach Russell Westbrook for [...]
One of the world’s most celebrated athletes, Usain Bolt, will be getting off the track field and on to the basketball court for the 2013 Sprint NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. The annual celebrity game will see James Harden and Russell Westbrook as coaches. Apart from Bolt, other celebrities players will include the reigning 2012 Sprint NBA [...]
Double world record-holder Usain Bolt is scheduled to compete at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, a part of the IAAF Diamond League series, on Thursday, 13 June and will run the 200m. According to a release from the IAAF , Bolt, who retained both men’s 100m and 200m titles, as well as the men’s 4x100m at [...]
The fastest man on earth smashed his own Olympic records but not before smashing romancing Megan Edwards. The world’s fastest man and eligible bachelor is yet again single after his latest conquest, Megan Edwards bolted! Edwards told the London Sun that she called it quits right before Christmas 2012 because of the issues that arise [...]
Jamaican Usain Bolt’s astonishing repeat success at this year’s London Olympics, coupled with his US$9 million per-year deal with Puma, has catapulted him onto Forbes Magazine’s 2012 prestigious 30 under 30 sports list. Each year, the magazine chooses 30 personalities all aged under 30, from 12 different fields, who it describes as “young disruptors, innovators [...]
Sprint legend Usain Bolt crowned an impressive list of achievements in 2012 by winning the international sports journalist award for the world’s top male athlete of 2012. Bolt received 33.62 percent of the votes and a total of 1381 points ahead of American swimmer Michael Phelps and world number one tennis star Serbia’s Novak Djokovic. [...]
Jamaican sprint ace Usain Bolt has done it again, bagging yet another award as the United States Sports Academy’s (USSA) 2012 Male Athlete of the Year. US tennis player Serena Williams took the honours as the USSA Female Athlete of the Year. Bolt and Williams topped the voting for the USSA’s 28th annual Athlete of [...]
Sprinter Usain Bolt has been named the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year after winning triple Olympic gold for the second successive Games. The 26-year-old Jamaican starred at the London 2012 Games as he claimed 100m, 200m and 4x100m titles. Bolt became the only man to have retained both individual sprint golds and helped [...]
Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time last Saturday after defending his 100 and 200 meter gold medals at last summer’s Olympic Games in London. The Jamaican sprinter, who beat out American hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha, had previously won the award in 2008, [...]
GQ Magazine recently announced the 2012 Men of the Year: the magazine’s annual list of the most incredible, awe-inspiring, prolific men (and women) who entertained, excited, and inspired us most this year. The biggest names in entertainment, politics, TV, sports, and more are recognized in the December issue, on newsstands now, as part of a [...]
Olympic gold medalist and world renowned track star, Usain Bolt, recently told The Sun that he was interested in opening a themed sports restaurant with U.K. chef Gordon Ramsay. Usain Bolt is one of the most marketable athletes in the world and is keen to launch an athletics-themed restaurant in London with the infamously sweary [...]
German musician Vita Diedel Kloever has paid tribute to Caribbean Olympian, Usain Bolt, by creating a life-size statue of the world’s fastest man. The statue, which is called Bolt of Bolts, is made entirely of bolts and scrap metal and is in Germany. The 51-year-old Kloever said he is blown away by the superstar sprinter’s [...]
Usain Bolt, the Jamaican Olympic gold medalist and world’s fastest man, is teaming up with Nissan to auction off a Nissan GT-R on eBay later this month with the proceeds going to the Usain Bolt Foundation. The one-of-a-kind GT-R is painted in a special gold hue and the hood has been signed by Bolt. In [...]
”Saturday Night Live” parodied the vice presidential debate with a little help from the world’s fastest man. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt dropped by the NBC sketch show’s mock debate after Taran Killam, playing Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, claimed he won the 100-meter race at the London Olympics. Ryan has been criticized for exaggerating [...]
Individual Olympic gold medalists Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce,as well as relay gold medalist Yohan Blake, have been listed among the finalists for the IAAF male and female Athlete of the Year to be named next month. Bolt, who retained his double sprint titles in London while lowering his own Olympic record in the 100m [...]
Swedish photographer Jimmy Wixtröm is auctioning off the famous camera Usain Bolt used during the Olympics. It was right after Usain Bolt, one of the world’s greatest athletes – and the fastest man in the world – had finished the 200 meter finals that the Sportbladet photographer lent him his camera. As seen in the pictures that since [...]
The US needs to get used to Jamaican sprint dominance, well…that’s basically the message from Jamaican Olympic medalist Yohan Blake to US men whose long reign over global sprinting has been toppled by talented athletes from a Caribbean island a fraction of their country’s size. According to Blake, Jamaica’s dominance has frustrated the Americans. “We [...]