Olympics 2012: ‘Usain Bolt injury free, ready to defend titles’

By Web Desk Jul 25th, 2012 ( 2 Comments )

Kingston: Triple Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt is injury free and ready to defend his titles at the 30th Olympiad starting in London Friday, his long time manager Norman Peart said.

Peart’s announcement comes as Bolt, one of the main attractions at the Olympics, prepares to retain the 100m, 200 and 4x100m relay titles he won in Beijing four years ago in world-record times, reports CMC.

He was forced to pull out of last Friday’s Monaco Diamond League meet as a result of a right hamstring problem he experienced during the recent Jamaican Olympic trials.

“At this stage if we had anything, any problem, it would have been a crisis, we are saying there is no crisis,” IANS quoted Peart as saying during an interview on Jamaican radio.

“It’s all good. If it has been something more than that, then obviously he would not have been in the camp,” Peart explained.

Bolt is coming to the Olympics following the double blow of losing the 100m and 200m to training partner Yohan Blake at the Jamaica trials.

Bolt is already in the United Kingdom as part of a 50-strong Jamaican squad participating in the Games, which begin with an opening ceremony Friday.

http://www.facebook.com/teresae.donovan.1 Teresae Donovan

The 2012 Olympic Games are one of the most highly anticipated events on TV. I remember my mom made sure that we watched them whenever they were on growing up. I’ve come to discover that I’m an Olympic junkie and I’m pretty excited for things to get started tomorrow. I’ll be missing most of the games since I’ll be at work but I just upgraded to the Hopper. The Hopper comes with 2 terabytes of space for recording which is fantastic. That’s four times more space than your average DVR. That way I won’t have to clear stuff off of my DVR right away. A Dish co-worker recommended it to me after she tried it for the show Once Upon A Time. I hope Team USA does well this year. I’m glad to see that Usain Bolt is back and ready to compete. His ability to move so quickly just keeps me glued top the screen anytime he competes.
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