I Am Bolt Page #7

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- We need a guarantee.

- ..."I'm bringing the gold medal..."

- I'm going to win.

"...back to the US of A."

- He just said he's gonna win.

- I'm going to win.

- Oh, yes!

- We bring it to LA, to New York.

We go out on a tour all around the country

with that ribbon around my neck

like a gold chain.

That's what I'm talking about.

And as soon as I watch that video,

soon as I watch that video...

everything changed.

I didn't... I'm not saying

I got back my full motivation.

I'm not saying that I was cured

or I was saved or it was a epiphany,

but I got that feeling, that feeling

in my stomach that, "Yo, what?"

"He's gonna beat me? Hell, no."

You know what I mean?

The truth is I'm gonna retire soon,

so I can comfortably say this.

They don't understand that, though.

What makes me, what makes me...

strive is the fact

that they talk all the time.

I love competition, so when you talk

and tell me what you're gonna do,

all it makes me wanna do is work harder.

So... big up to yourself, Justin Gatlin.

Five thirty. Don't know why I'm up

this early. Gotta work out.

Life of a champion, right? Full marks.

Five, six. Don't bounce it.

Seven. Don't bounce it.

Eight, nine, ten.

Seven. Seven. 24. 25.

Good job.

Everybody knows that I'm the coach

and I have the authority.

I don't have to wear it on my face.

We joke a lot.

We try to make the whole thing exciting

because he likes fun.

Remember you said you'd do a high jump?

Where was it? In Europe or something?

- Ostrava.

- Ostrava? And that was super.

But it's the javelin I want to throw.

How much money you bet on it again?

I don't know how much money,

but you have to give me something.

- Bolt... what we saying?

- Over a hundred dollar.

What did we say,

you can't throw over 50 meters?

50 or 60...

No, no, no, no. I have to be in that bet.

You think I can't throw that?

50 what?

No, I'm gonna bet now.

I'm telling you you can't throw it...

I'm telling you.

- How much you wanna bet?

- What?

- A mill? One million?

- What?

- You sure?

- Yeah, man.

You can't throw over 60.

- 50 to 60.

- No, no, no, no.

60. You can't change it now.

60 we say now.

- The man dem say yo...

- No, no, no, no.

Not them. Me! My bet is 60.

They told me I can't throw over 50 meters.

I told them I can go 60, let me tell you.

You can't do 60.

You go, you go.

We'll have a shake. You hear that?

He can't throw 60 with a javelin.

- 60 is my bet.

- I won't argue. Just give me my money.

Coach, listen, me seen the other

athletes stand up and throw 40.

Just stand and throw.

Eddie say you cannot throw 60

and Eddie teach it. Eddie's a teacher.

Me nah worried.

Listen to me, I get my three tries...

- Three tries?

- You always get three tries.

- One try.

- One try?

- One try, you know.

- It can't be one throw.

When you ever hear

someone get one try for a bet?

- In our arrangement.

- No, that's not how it works.

- You must get warm-up throws.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We don't have to have a military thing,

because if you can reach people...

you tend to get more out of them.

That's my philosophy.

Go!

Yeah, you look good.

That's not bad at all.

That was smooth!

We gonna give it to Usain, so whenever

you see him, just present one of these.

He should be able to solve it

in 30 seconds.

Here you go, Usain, a token of

my appreciation. Here you go, Mr Bolt.

It's called a Rubik's Cube.

A Rubik's Cube. I knew the word.

That was your first test.

Yeah.

- Go.

- Can I have a first clue?

No, you don't.

Over, over this.

I don't have the first clue.

People, we are showing the world a secret

as to why Usain is so cutting edge,

always ahead of the pack.

No.

Now I work.

You see with a matter,

if it can be done, Bolt can do it.

Watch how he broke stuff.

Evil. Evil.

But...

Bolt.

Bolt, this is your answer

to solving the problem.

It was a good one. It was a good idea.

You see I knew Bolt was like this,

so... I bought two.

Bolt, are you breathing?

Yeah.

I'm a type of person, I get nervous

before my first race, I really do.

Like, every year my first race I worry,

am I still fast?

I train well, I execute well in training

but I always worry, am I still fast?

Am I still the fastest man in the world?

Am I still this great Usain Bolt?

Every year. I don't know why.

So my first race right now

I'm always slightly nervous,

but after the first one

my confidence grows,

and the more I compete,

the more I get more confident.

We're in a foreign land.

It's the start of the season.

I came out for my first race.

I haven't raced since Beijing.

I'm just hoping that, after this first

race, I feel like, yeah, this is it.

The season has started

and I feel like I'm ready to go

and I'm heading on my way to Rio.

I've been working hard.

I've had setbacks with my ankle issue.

But I'm on the right track now

and getting to where I need to be.

I'm happy that it's time now.

It's time where it's just going to be

competition. That's what really matters.

I hate the training part of it,

but I love competing so much.

Bolt!

Usain Bolt!

The start was pretty good, I think,

I think it was an excellent start,

but when I went to do my transition

and ready to push, I felt my hamstring.

If it wasn't for that,

I would have ran easy a 9.80.

50 meters, when I'm coming out

of my drive phase and it's time to go,

you know what I mean,

that's when I start running, I felt it.

So then I had to start looking around

to see where I'm at

because I don't want to push too hard,

you know what I mean?

And then tear something.

But I don't want to lose either, so...

I had to make a conscious decision

to get sh*t right, you know what I mean?

I'm just too competitive.

I'm just really competitive.

I take it personally

when I lose to somebody.

I always go after that person.

I tell myself, you can't beat me again.

I don't want to lose

at any point in my life.

The race we were denied last year at the

World Championships, we will get tonight.

The world champion

vs the Olympic champion. Blake vs Bolt.

Off they go. Powell is off well.

Bolt has work to do.

Powell is ahead of Bolt

and the rest of the field.

Asafa Powell! Blake comes forward

on the outside! Yohan Blake wins!

I know he wasn't at his best

because I train with him,

so I know what he was going through.

The big man Bolt has a platform now

to restate his dominance

as the world's best.

I take my 200 meters very personal,

so for me it was a big deal that

he actually beat me over 200 meters.

Blake is running well in lane three!

Bolt is being beaten here by Blake

once again!

And Yohan Blake,

for the second time in three days,

delivers a beating on the world's best,

Usain Bolt.

What counts will be London,

but Blake has to be thrilled

with his performances

at the nationals this weekend.

For the next month the work that I put in

to make sure I could silence all

these doubters was just unbelievable.

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