Usain Bolt, track and field’s greatest weapon as well as its biggest crutch, has run his last race. If Lord Coe, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, feels this huge weight on his shoulders, he does not show it. “They say: ‘You don’t want to say this, you don’t want to say that,’ to their athletes. That will make the media find them more interesting and help the public to become more engaged.”Coe adds: “Usain Bolt, for whatever reason, was probably a personality the second he walked into his classroom. “If you just look at the youth which has surfaced in the championships – it’s the youngest cohort of medallists, youngest cohort of winners.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2017 07:52 UTC