Usain Bolt now regrets retiring when he did - Wishes he'd given it a shot through Tokyo

What is the saying? "you are a long time retired"

Like others have said, Bolt retired at the right time. He was never known as a hard worker, he was the guy that was born with insane talent and was possibly the most protected athlete in Track history due to his value to the sport. I'm not even sure he still would have been a sub 10 guy by 2021, I just don't see him putting the hard work for 5 more seasons after his 2016 Olympic titles to get that done.

Oh stop whining and move on. You retired. Stop looking back and living your life with regret. I hate when people do this.

agree

He talked of playing cricket after athletics

There was rumor his false start at worlds in the finals (get to the finals and draw the money first) was from a PED plea deal type thing. Those still exists today obviously, SCRich got one with a reduced miss one month and the Olympics in exchange for a "marijuana" positive.

I don’t see much mention of the 2017 World Championships. People don’t seem to remember how close he was to winning gold in the 100m, before Gatlin famously did the “I am not worthy” bow to him. That being said, he also got injured during the 4x100 relay, and had to be helped by his teammates to the line. To me at least those championships felt like his swan song.

He wasn’t near the height of his powers, and his body was close to shot (and this had been talked about in the run-up to the WC), but he was still nearly fast enough to beat everyone else.

All that being said, there’s no way his body would have lasted until Tokyo. His back took a serious pounding from him running with the form he had, and it was clear by 2017 that it couldn’t take any more.

So what

Only slow white people think he was doping because they lack the talent to be great. Hard for them to understand how someone can be so naturally talented while they have to dope to be halfway decent.

He is one of the only high profile sprinters in Racers TC to not get caught (and one of the only men under 9.80 without a test or whereabouts failure), but the world has just overlooked it for years

Finally someone else who gets it.