I Am Bolt Page #4

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And for a doctor to say, "Could be out

for a while," then you start worrying.

You know what I mean? Like, "What do you

mean, I could be out for a while?"

So all you have to do right now

is stay off your feet

and that messes with your confidence.

Judging from what he say to me,

he doesn't sound worried.

That doesn't necessarily mean he's not.

Sometimes we do a good job

of hiding our inner feeling,

but he must have concern

because normally, at this time,

he would be far ahead of what he has now.

Originally we didn't think it was

something serious, a sprained ankle.

We thought in two weeks

he's gonna be better,

but then it took three weeks, four

weeks, so we decided to come to Germany.

Usain. Hello.

Hey, man.

- What's up? You alright?

- Very much interested to see.

OK.

All that work.

It's encapsulated

the front part of the ligament. Here.

- This sector here.

- Here was tender.

- Yeah.

- On the bone.

That's the tendon. It is tendovaginitis.

So the tendon had stress and the ligament.

And the tendon still is swollen,

and the surrounding,

where it slips, slipping in,

is swollen too, and this causes pain,

so we have to treat.

Now we have to work on the muscle.

He had to rest. Now he gets

a serious session for muscle training.

It's not good. Mmm.

The injury's bad, it's not as simple

as I thought it would be,

so now it's gonna be

work, work, work, work, work.

Pretty much that's gonna be my life,

so it's not something you wanna hear,

but it has to be done,

so I'm gonna get it done.

The doctor thinks it's gonna be

another three, four weeks

before he can start training again.

It's not something

that we want his rivals to know

because it gives them an edge if they

know he's missed two months of training.

There's only six months left

to the Olympic Games.

It's not an ideal situation

to be in right now.

I try to tell myself, don't worry.

You have the best coach in the world.

It will be fine.

But you still worry about

why this happened on the biggest year.

Am I gonna be ready?

It's gonna be hard.

As it is, he's faced with a gigantic task

because it will be

like starting all over again.

With such a long inactivity on

the track, you lose almost everything.

He has started doing pool training

and will resume

training in the gym and stuff,

but there's no substitute

to actually running on the track.

90. Very good. Let's go.

Come on, that's it.

Four.

Wall is right here,

it's right here, right here. Good. Turn.

Very good. Let's go.

I'm sure that, the champion he is,

good sense will prevail,

and that as painful as it is

and monotonous as it can be

for the next couple of months,

circumstances dictate

that it cannot be business as usual.

So what's the plan, Coach?

Well, the plan is, Mr Bolt,

that you need to work your belly off.

We got a fat athlete here

who's lying on his back,

so we're gonna reduce his meals

and increase the work.

You're going to have to train

twice a day for the rest of the year.

For the rest of the year, Coach?

I listened yesterday and you said

when the coach says it's time,

it's time to go.

No parties.

It's an end to this party-going,

because the coach says it's time to go.

Well, as you see, he's lying on his back.

An unusual position for him. So...

Turn the camera off!

- He...

- Turn the camera off!

Turn the cam...

- It's a sign that he surrenders.

- What can I say? He's the coach.

Have a good day, Coach Mills.

OK.

12, 13, 14.

Coach Mills is just a genius, man.

Like, I've been injured so much

over the years, through the seasons,

and he's always found a way

to get me in shape for the big moment.

Always. I don't know how he does it.

Final. Oh, good.

His career has been in...

as dramatic as it is,

has also been punctuated

by bouts of injury.

2004 was his first year

running as a professional,

but we spent the whole summer

looking for chiropractors

and doctors and physios

to try and fix his back

and his hamstrings.

At that point, in 2004, '05,

you know, you were kind of, like,

OK, is this guy ever gonna fulfil

the promise he showed as a junior?

I wasn't happy. I was pushing my body

too hard and I was not used to it.

And I used to watch Mr Mills

coaching the guys.

I was, like, yo,

I would love Mr Mills to coach me.

Well, first I did not agree

because I was saying to him,

because you don't want to do the

training, you are a little bit too lazy.

He said, "Daddy, you don't know

what I am feeling,"

and he did it on his own.

We didn't like it,

but of course it was the right decision.

The problem was his scoliosis.

It affected his worse hip

which affected his hamstring

and just a chain of reaction.

Scoliosis means the spine was straight

and the lumber part a little to the side.

That was all.

That the coach saw, he said, "Something

is wrong. Go to Muller-Wohlfahrt."

So we set about doing

the specific exercises

to develop the strength of his lower

back and then to stabilize his hip.

It was a tough 2004, 2005, 2006,

and I think it was really up until 2007

that, you know, you started to say, OK,

he's now getting

consistently better and better,

and he lost the World Championship

in 2007.

He came off the curve level with Tyson Gay

and he thought he should go away and win

and he couldn't,

he just didn't have any gears left,

and then he sat down.

I remember that night,

he went back and he said,

"Coach, I can't do this again.

I've gotta win the next time."

Coach says, "Listen to me. You're too

weak and you need to do another event

to get your strength up or your speed up."

I was like, "Alright, so where?"

He's like, "Yo, next season

we need to run the 400 meters."

I'm like, "Hold on, no,"

cos the training's too hard.

He's like, "You're too slow

to run the 100 meters

and your start is really bad."

So I was like, "Let's make a deal.

Give me one 100 meters try-out."

"If I run slow, I run the 400 meters.

If I run fast, I run the 100 meters."

Ran 10.03, and I was like, "Hey, 10.03."

A lot of guys were running 10.03

at that time, so... I got my wish.

Set.

Finally, a clean start.

Will it be a historic 100 meters?

Usain Bolt has the step.

Usain Bolt blowing away the field.

Usain Bolt takes the men's 100 meters!

It's a new world record! 9.71!

9.71!

Usain Bolt has run the fastest

100 meters in the history of humankind.

That is the fastest any human

has ever covered 100 meters.

There's an old Chinese proverb that says,

"The journey is as important

as the destination,"

and I believe that

if you pay attention to the journey

and you do the right things,

you reach the right destination.

No matter how fast you run,

there is gonna be a time that

someone's gonna break those records.

However, when it comes to being

Olympic champion, it's etched in stone,

and at no point whatsoever is

that title gonna be taken away from you,

so the title is there for life.

- Hold on there. What say you call?

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