I Am Bolt Page #5

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- You're the best roommate ever.

Me?

Yes, you.

I was roommates with Usain.

That guy was... was something else, man.

Well, on my corner, right,

you gotta have your orange juice.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Vitamin C.

So go down smooth.

We got a water.

I can't really read Chinese...

Yeah, yeah.

And then we have some Lacoste.

Keep my fresh, you know what I say?

Keep my fresh. One more thing.

This is my baby.

- Alright. Let me see it.

- C'mon, baby thing.

Yo, cut out that. Cut out that.

Hold that. See there? Coach, that.

Coach Glen Mills. The best coach

in the world. In the world.

Coach Mills was right next door,

and he'll be banging on the walls, man,

just "Usain! It's time to go to sleep.

You got the 100 meter tomorrow."

- It's late, man, come on.

- Yeah, I'm putting on my shoes, Coach.

I watched the 100 meter at my sister's

house, up by the road there.

It was nerve-racking.

Going to the Bird's Nest, it was

such fun. The place was beautiful.

Throughout his career,

I've never stood beside Coach Mills.

I don't even know where Coach Mills

watches the races from.

I always stay by myself.

I went to the stadium for that one.

Actually, I was

right behind the starting blocks.

Got to the line.

I was hyper, I was really hyper.

Set.

When the race started,

I was just,

"I need to get this first 50 right."

I was nervous, believe you me.

I shed tears with that race as well.

30 meters, I looked,

I was slightly behind,

then I ran to 50

and I was in line with everyone.

I ran the race with Usain.

I was up jumping.

A fair start, Asafa Powell.

Usain Bolt is also out well.

I expected Asafa to be ahead.

Everybody looked across, he wasn't there,

so I was like, you know what,

continue running.

Ran to 60. Kinda checked. Ran to 70.

It went by so quick.

I got to 80 meters, I was like hold on,

where's Asafa, you know what I mean?

And then I was like, "Oh, sh*t, I'm

gonna win." I start beating my chest.

Usain Bolt sprinting ahead,

winning by daylight

and setting a world record.

I have never seen another 100-meter

Olympic champion run that easy.

He dominated the field.

Oh, sh*t! Oh, my God!

Whoo!

Did you see that sh*t? Did you see that?

That's my roommate! That's my roommate!

People are saying, why did I celebrate?

Well, it just happened.

It just came out of me

because that's what I felt.

You're coming up to the line

and you go, "Oh!"

"This is it. This is it.

This is what I've been working on."

I can't believe I've finally done it.

It's just so much work to get to

that one moment, to win that one moment.

I just remember he literally exploded.

That image in Beijing

of him pounding his chest, you know,

as he crosses that finish line is like,

wait, can he go faster than that?

I mean, everyone could see

that he was something special. He...

A man like him is not born very often.

Yes. I just witnessed

something great, great.

I can't explain it what the man just do.

- Say something for them.

- Well, I just did what I had to do.

I went out there and I executed,

and now I am Olympic champion.

It's not like we never see it coming.

- God damn!

- God damn!

The next thing is 200 meters.

I'm going through the rounds

and I'm feeling tired.

And I remember the night before,

my roommate, Maurice Smith,

was sitting down and he goes,

"Yo, you're gonna break

the 200-meter world record,"

and I go, "It's hard, man."

We stayed up chatting till

I think it was like five in the morning.

And he's like, "Yo, you can do it."

Yeah. Hot gym now.

Usain, you better get ready for go

after the 200 finals.

You don't know enough.

I'm gonna zoom in there.

- Fresh, ain't I?

- Yeah.

- Fresh.

- Fresh to death.

I cut his hair before he went out

and, you know, we goofed off a lot

about him having his fresh cut

and, you know, he did a thing

where he rubbed his head like this

before the race.

I had the decathlon the next day,

so I stayed at the village

and watched that with the teammates.

Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Asafa.

On your marks.

If you watch the race, you can see,

as soon as the gun goes,

I'm like so focused.

Set.

I'm watching the clock

and I'm like,

"Yo, I can make it, I can make it."

When I saw it, I didn't know what to do.

I was like...

I was happy, I was so happy, I was...

That's when all the joy came out.

It's one of the best things in the world!

I have to join the celebration!

Look what happened to the place after

the man ran the world record on the 200.

Watch this.

Yo, they mash up the place.

We were watching the girls

and they dropped the baton and we go...

we all looked at each other like...

Jesus. So Usain,

Usain called us together and said, "Yo."

Team meeting.

Let's just get the baton around.

And I remember, I looked him

straight in the eye and I said,

"I'm giving you

a third world record at this Olympics

and another gold medal,

don't worry yourself."

And there's the gun.

Nesta Carter runs the lead-off

for Jamaica.

Looking down the track and I see

Michael Frater coming towards me.

Michael Frater's, like, five six,

and he looks like six five, he's so tall.

I'm like, he's coming so fast.

Should I run off or should I wait?

Oh, sh*t, oh, sh*t.

Hand-off to Bolt and he's

on his way around the curve.

Look at Bolt go with

those big, long strides.

Giving the baton, I remember

screaming to him, "Run, Asafa!"

And Asafa Powell has it...

"Go on, Asafa! Go on, Asafa!"

I remember, I remember that and, I mean,

I just felt, I just felt a boost,

and I felt strong and powerful

and went down the track

and I saw the world record.

Asafa Powell...

I was more happy for him

than even for myself,

you know, because it was his Olympic

and that was his time to shine.

Asafa really started it,

breaking world records, and I said,

"I wanna do that.

I wanna be on that level."

Another reason why I'm so proud of him,

he did what I wanted to do, you know,

he went on and he did better than,

you know, I wanted to do

and, you know, I'm really proud of that.

For somebody to move from rival

instantly into your teammate

and then fully on your side

shows the bond of not Jamaicans

but as friends also.

If you're a young guy

an' you don't have the talent

or you don't want to work on the talent,

then don't do it, then.

Try and find something else.

There's tons of sports.

What is that thing them... curling?

- See what I'm saying?

- First on the broom.

Yeah, curling.

You want to be a winner,

you have to work hard to be a winner.

- True...

- You have to teach 'em that!

- Me, I grew up in a...

- You should encourage them!

- What did my father tell me?

- What did he tell you?

"Work for what you want."

Did he say,

"Oh, Usain, you're a loser today"?

I wasn't, though...

I wasn't a loser, though.

But I'm saying, even then

if there's anythin' you want in life,

you gotta work for it.

That my father instilled in us.

"If you run and you lose, you have

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