I Am Bolt

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Man and his dreams.

Since the beginning of mankind,

man has been pushing himself

past great limits,

beyond his wildest imagination,

to find himself in a place

that he never thought he'd be.

Physical strength, magnificent speed,

the human spirit.

The human mind

should never be underestimated.

See, some of us are born

to do great things.

To inspire.

To run.

Everyone runs for different reasons,

but no one in the history of humanity

has run as fast as Usain Bolt.

They get away first time,

Tyson Gay right alongside Usain Bolt,

but here he goes, streaking away already.

Let's take a look at the clock.

9.58. New world record!

Away cleanly. Bolt has got

a very good start indeed.

Look at the gap between him

and the rest of the world.

Three meters clear. Five meters clear.

And away he goes.

He continues on his way towards

another gold medal. Watch the clock.

19.19. Bolt destroys his old world record.

He writes his own history

with every stride that he takes.

He has defied what science or normal

people says no one is supposed to do.

For his height they said

he shouldn't be running so fast,

or for where he's from, they're saying

he shouldn't be who he is.

So he represent "don't let everybody

tell you you can't."

"Don't let anybody tell you don't dream."

People love sports throughout the world.

You support one football team

and you hate the other team.

I think with Usain,

everyone loves him everywhere.

He goes beyond boundaries

of race, religion, politics.

Usain Bolt bring rhythm to athletics.

It wasn't there before.

Everybody took it too serious,

maybe because they had to.

He don't have to do that.

Naturally, naturally a champion.

If you've gotten to see him on TV,

consider yourself lucky.

If you've gotten a chance

to see him run live,

consider yourself very, very blessed.

He's dominated.

He's won everything there is to win.

If he goes on

and he's three-times Olympic champion,

I mean, no one can top that.

He'll never be forgotten

because no one's ever done it before,

and for him to just take command

and to be that much better

than everyone else is unbelievable.

He has to believe in himself

and trust God, because he born for this.

Yo. It's my last day in Monaco.

About to get ready

to go to China right now, Beijing.

Iron my shirt.

Once more, one more season.

They say I'm the underdog,

so let's see what happens about that.

Almost done ironing.

Oh, sh*t.

Should be a little tricky this season.

I haven't been in the best of shape,

but for me that's never an excuse.

I seem to always get injured

throughout the season,

but I always find a way

to get it right, so...

I have all faith in God and my coach

that they will get me ready,

and as long as I'm ready

when I'm on the line,

there's no stopping me.

This is the moment. Are you ready?

I keep asking myself that.

Been a long season.

It's been rough for me.

It's been tough, a few people doubting

me, saying, "You're not gonna do it,"

or "Gatlin's running better,

Gatlin is the best right now."

I think this season,

because Gatlin was running so good,

it was playing on my mind

a little bit more.

Bolt, the holder

of the championship record.

The only blemish was when he false started

in the final in Daegu four years ago.

Usain is in the first semi, so we expect

him to execute and get into the finals.

The gun went.

And I remember the young kid

which was near me got a flying start.

This kind of threw me off a little bit,

so I stumbled.

I was like, "Yo, sh*t."

He's stumbled.

I looked up and I panicked.

I need to get back in this race

as quickly as possible.

Usain Bolt has got

an awful lot of work to do.

China is there.

Is he gonna make the top two?

He has a look,

and just, just, just does it.

Ran through the line,

all I could think is, like,

"Dear God, please

don't let this happen in the final."

Not the way he would have liked

to have done it, but he's in the final.

Coming back to the warm-up area,

I keep telling myself it's just

one start, just the one bad start.

You're OK. You ran back well.

That's a positive.

I tried to motivate myself

by telling myself these things.

And my coach came to me,

he never really says much to me,

but he called me over and says...

What the hell is going on out there?

You're trying too hard.

You're making the pressure get to you.

You need to relax, calm,

and take control of the situation.

You are the champion.

The race is not won at 30 meters,

at 40 meters.

And that, for me, really helped

when he said that.

It kinda released my mind,

let me relax a little bit more.

It's just a matter of you going out

there and taking charge, as a champion,

and give a champion performance.

I think Usain Bolt has just given us all

almost heart failure.

He'll need to step it up a gear,

because Justin Gatlin did look good.

Shocking news from the American track

and field camp involving Justin Gatlin,

the doping scandal continues.

But why are you on top now at 33?

I have training partners like Isiah Young

to come out and train, who's a young star.

The long-term effect of steroids...

Do you think you can benefit from this,

even if you are clean now?

I think it's ridiculous.

Why are you asking these questions?

That happened a decade ago.

You're not a history major.

A lot of people don't believe your story.

- Are you a history major?

- I was a history major.

Good. Really good. Then maybe you should

go do that in a museum or something.

I think we've never seen, probably,

a closer encounter for Usain

than we're gonna see tonight

in this stadium.

Gatlin is making 9.7 and change

look easy, comfortably. Strolling.

I get into the warm-up area,

and I looked across at Justin Gatlin,

and I could see the fear in his face.

And he keeps talking to me.

He's saying "yo" and dapping my fist.

And I'm like,

why are we having a conversation?

It's proper rivalry right now.

There's no reason for us to be talking.

Like we are, like,

pretty much the two guys

who are gonna go head-to-head right now.

But the fact that he kept doing that

kind of made me go,

hmm, you're not so confident.

With all the setbacks and

the injury concerns, it's a tall order.

Half of this crowd here

thinks he may lose tonight.

Gosh, I don't even wanna think about it,

I don't even wanna say it because...

I don't know. The sport will be in

a very sad place if that should happen.

We have two guys that's capable

of doing remarkable things.

And when you finally get 'em head-to-head

and go run out here in front of the world,

there's gonna be fireworks,

it's gonna be something special.

Gatlin always walk down...

And then Usain would do a little bit of...

And depending on the crowd's reaction,

he would just...

He came out, and in the back

of his head he's like,

"Oh, God, I wonder if he's ready."

I'm ready.

The Bird's Nest is where, in 2008,

Usain Bolt was crowned sprint king.

Seven years on, is the same venue

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