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Kingston, Jamaica. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
The home of Usain Bolt. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
And they've kind of got used to having him around, as we all have. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
But now, in 2017, he's announced his retirement. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
And I guess the big question is, what does that mean for him, | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
what does that mean for these people here, and what does it mean | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
for a sport for which he leaves so many iconic moments? | 0:00:28 | 0:00:33 | |
# Top of the roster | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
# Real deal you can see it in my posture | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
# Seems like every time they take a shot they hit the crossbar | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
# And I move like Neymar | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
# Them boys ain't even on my radar | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
# I do my own stunts no saviour | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
# That is why I gotta stunt so major. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
# Hype! | 0:00:50 | 0:00:50 | |
# Every time I'm around there's a hype | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
# Touchdown and the crowd gets hyped. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
# Straight gassed got the whole place hyped. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
# I'm a bad boy and I do what I like. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
# Every time I'm around there's a hype. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:00 | |
Usain Bolt streaking away from the field. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
It's gold for Usain Bolt! | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
He's done it again! | 0:01:06 | 0:01:07 | |
A new world record for Usain Bolt. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
He's going to win the gold! | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
Bolt's going to do it again! | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
Usain Bolt! | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
Hello again. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:24 | |
Good to see you, all right. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
Yeah, good, good. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
Come on in. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:28 | |
In the shade? | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
No, no, you've got your own shade, mate. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
You got your own shade. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:32 | |
# Oh cherry oh, cherry oh, baby | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
# Don't you know I'm in need of thee?#. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
Usain, a couple of years ago, you announced to all of us | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
and to yourself that you are going to retire | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
after the Worlds in London. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
Is that still a decision you're happy with? | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
Yeah. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
Definitely still a decision I'm happy with. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
It's just been, I've done all I wanted to do, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
you know what I mean? | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
Everybody wants me to continue, but it's not as simple as it is. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
I've done great in the sport. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
People just want to see more and more, you know what I mean? | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
But you as a person have to decide that this is it. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
I don't want to continue and then at the end I start losing, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
because I hate losing. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
No regrets at all? | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
No, there's no regrets. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
If you look at a lot of top athletes, that's the one thing | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
there used to damage their career just a little bit by being | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
so dominant throughout their career, retired then missed the sport | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
and came back into the sport to something different. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
I don't think my coach will coach me either. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
I think he said, he actually said that to me. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
You retire, that's it. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
Don't feel you're going to take a year or two off and then | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
come back to me and go, oh, let's do this again. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
It's not going to happen. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
Is he happy with you retiring? | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
Has he tried to persuade you? | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
No, I think he understands to the point where he knows if I'm | 0:02:48 | 0:02:58 | |
not into it, I won't give it my all, so he asks me if I'm sure | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
and he already told me, listen, if you wanted to go | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
on for four more years, it would be easy for me, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
but he knows how I am. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:09 | |
If I'm not motivated to do it then, then it's | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
going to be hard for me so... | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
Is there a little bit of trepidation? | 0:03:14 | 0:03:15 | |
You're always going to be nervous. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Definitely. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:17 | |
But I'm also excited, you know what I mean, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
to try and move onto a different chapter of my life, | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
try something new. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:23 | |
Just have some me time, you know what I mean? | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
I'm excited but nervous at the same time. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
Have you got any plans? | 0:03:29 | 0:03:30 | |
Anything you'd really like to do? | 0:03:30 | 0:03:36 | |
We have a lot of things we are working on. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
I still have two companies that we're working on. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
One big project that we just really started, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
to try and start a clinic in Jamaica. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
I think I have a lot more work, like more sponsor work, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
travelling a lot more when I retire than when I was running, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
so I'll have a lot more work to do. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
Will that keep you satisfied? | 0:03:52 | 0:03:53 | |
Will that keep you waking up in the morning excited | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
about what the week has ahead? | 0:03:56 | 0:03:57 | |
Depends. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
It depends what I'm doing in that day. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
But I'll have more free time, you know what I mean, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
so it won't be as stressful as it used to be so I can travel, | 0:04:04 | 0:04:10 | |
I can go on trips, do what I also want to do. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
I have a bet with my managers. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
They give me two years before I get a belly! | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
I can't let that happen. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
# Always you, it was always you baby... | 0:04:22 | 0:04:30 | |
# It was you that I saw in my dreams last night...# | 0:04:30 | 0:04:35 | |
When he was a student, I was his teacher of Spanish. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
He had to be average at something, so average student. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:46 | |
He was full of humour, given to pranks. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:53 | |
He was taller than the average student, and in PE, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:59 | |
he would decimate the opposition quite easily. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
Although at the time he was ragged in terms of his form. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
I was one of the senior athletes and he was much younger, | 0:05:07 | 0:05:12 | |
but he was a force to reckon with. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
He was always meeting at our speed and even sometimes beat us. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:21 | |
There was this one time when William Knibb had the best | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
4x100 team in western Jamaica. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
And we would go there, it was like us oozing to let | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
everybody see what we have to show. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
For the students, I think it means the world to them. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
It is their measuring stick, so to speak. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
They aspire to be good at whatever they do. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
Having him walk these walls and reach where he is, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
then they know for them all things are possible. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:52 | |
Not everybody excels academically so at least they can use | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
the sports as a stepping stone to reach their goal. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:02 | |
He was in fifth form. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
My boy, smart man. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
He is my champion! | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
He is our champion at William Knibb, and in Trelawney | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
and Jamaica as a whole. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
And it is hard for me to believe that he is going to put | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
everything to rest in London. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
He wants to go and play for Manchester United | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
and some of these teams, well, let's see what happens! | 0:06:24 | 0:06:31 | |
In Jamaica, athletics is pretty much in the blood and nowhere | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
is that more evident than here at the National Schools Championships | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
or the Champs as they are known. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
This is where Usain Bolt started and it's a great | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
testimony to the legacy that | 0:06:53 | 0:06:54 | |
he's leaving behind in this country, and they'll be hoping that it goes | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
on for a few more years after he's left. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
For me it's big, because that's where we see our talent. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
That's what helps us to see the talent and to develop | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
the talent over the years, so for me, it's a massive thing. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
I think it's something that should continue for years | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
and years to come, because it will help us to pick | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
talent and then nurture it and to be world champions | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
and Olympic champions also. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:31 | |
I've been following Usain from about 14 years old, | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
from boys Champs when he ran for William Knibb, and first broke | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
the 200 metre record at the Champs. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
We've had great runners come before, but none of them have | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
had their dominance and overall changed the sport like what Usain | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
did for track and field. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
I went to the Championships when I was really young, | 0:07:49 | 0:07:54 | |
when I was supposed to go, but my coach at the time wanted | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
me to experience Champs before I actually went there | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
at the right age. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
So for me, I just went there and experienced | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
something magnificent, you know what I mean? | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
It was like nothing I've ever been around. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
The energy was different. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
It was loud, it was packed. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
It was just everything that you would expect when you're | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
watching the Olympics. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
It was that for me at the time. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
I've been to the last three Olympics, and to five | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
World Championships so I followed Usain and the athletes thousands | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
of miles around the world. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
I met Usain in 2002. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
He was a funny and loving youngster. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
The holder for sprinters aged 15, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:51 | |
his best time in the heat is 20.58. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
A good bet for the gold medal in this final. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
There's no other greater feeling than competing | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
in front of your home crowd, accomplishing something. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
I was the only individual gold at this Championship, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:09 | |
so to do that for my country, to give them that joy, | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
and to give them that glory, was nothing other than that. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:18 | |
Being the home crowd, people chanting your name, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
it's just unbelievable. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
A good start the first time, 200 final. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
Second from right is Usain Bolt, going well also is Vernon Christian. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
This is Usain Bolt of Jamaica. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
Nice curve. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
Christian going very well. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Christian on the outside. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
Usain Bolt of Jamaica takes the lead in the 200 final. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
Heading towards the gold medal. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:41 | |
Usain Bolt is the World Junior cCampion. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
20.61, Usain Bolt the World Junior Champion and the city | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
of Kingston comes alive. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:56 | |
Usain has put us on the map, with Bob Marley. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
I think Bob Marley and Usain Bolt are considered probably | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
the best well-known Jamaicans. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
I just want to kind of flip back a year or two when you sort of made | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
the decision about retiring and then you were looking, well, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
I don't know if you were looking forward to it, because it was a bit | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
of a difficult year, 2015, the World Championships | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
in Beijing, was there any point in that difficult period | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
where you thought you might not get this far? | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
No, for me, definitely, I just wanted, when I decided, | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
I just genuinely wanted to retire after the Olympics, but I had one | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
more year on my contract so, you know what... | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
So it was a simple as that? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
One more year on the contract, one more year to keep training? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
And the fans, they asked me. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
When I said I'd probably retire after the Olympics they were like, | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
no, you need to go one more year. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
So I was like, you know what, I have one more year | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
on my contract, why not? | 0:10:53 | 0:10:54 | |
So I decided to go with the fans, so it was good. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
It is top billing, the stadium full, the noise building, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
the atmosphere is wonderful. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
And all eyes on these two. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
Did what happened in 2015 almost reinvigorate you in some way, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
it was almost like a comeback for Usain, wasn't it? | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
For me, it was a rough season. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
To this day, one of my roughest seasons I've ever been through. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
But for me, it just shows the world that I have to be a champion. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:37 | |
But for me, it just shows the will that I have to be a champion. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
And what I always say is anything is possible | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
because through the whole season people were doubting me, | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
people were saying Usain is not going to make this one, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
to the point where at times, small doubts crept in because I wasn't | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
getting to the form I needed to be. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
Took me a while to get going, so for me, even in my mind | 0:11:57 | 0:12:03 | |
it wasa little bit of a doubt but with the confidence of my coach | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
and the people around me, they kind of lifted me up | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
and helped me to push through and get through that season. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
Bolt will attempt to defend his world titles in Beijing against | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
Justin Gatlin, banned twice for taking illegal drugs. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
Did you genuinely believe you were going to beat Gatlin? | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
When I started out, through the season, I had my doubts. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
But when I got to the Championship and my coach says listen, | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
you'll be fine, you are a champion, you know what it takes to win, | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
You know how it is, so don't worry, go out and just execute them. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
After that I was like, do you know what, let's just do this, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
you know what I mean? | 0:12:34 | 0:12:35 | |
The confidence came back. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:36 | |
I was ready. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:37 | |
You're still going to get a little bit nervous | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
but I was much more confident, actually, when I got | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
to the Championship than throughout the season. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
Men's 100 metre final. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:44 | |
CHEERING. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
Bolt gets out pretty well, so does Rogers. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:48 | |
Gatlin has got out a little bit better. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
Bolt and Gatlin are right together. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
It's Gatlin, and Usain Bolt, | 0:12:52 | 0:12:53 | |
and Bolt gets it! | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
Usain Bolt! | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
He's saved his title! | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
He's saved his reputation. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:05 | |
He may have even saved his sport. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:10 | |
I needed to win, that's a fact. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
For me, I tried to avoid talking about good and evil | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
and bad stuff like that, but I knew what it was, | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
I knew what I to do. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
Number one, OK. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
Number one all day every day. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
Usain Bolt continues to go away, Bolt's got away. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
Two golds for Bolt. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
Too good for Gatlin. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:40 | |
I guess through your career that the 100 metres in this period | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
has, it's not been the event which is always had good headlines. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
How have you coped with that three or career? | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
For me, I've learned at the start to just ignore it all, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
you know what I mean? | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
It hard to ignore it because as soon as it goes away, it comes back. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
Yes, I'm not going to be pleased that there may be athletes | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
in my race that are taking drugs but I can't, what can I do? | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
I have to just focus on running and winning, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
even if they are in the race. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
But you have been directly affected yourself, you have lost one | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
of your gold medals because of it? | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
It's true. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:21 | |
How does that make you feel? | 0:14:21 | 0:14:22 | |
I'm not happy about it. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
and his perfect triple triple of games sprint victories. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
It is after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter was found guilty | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
of doping at the 2008 Beijing Games. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:39 | |
I haven't actually seen Nesta since that has actually happened, | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
for me and him to really have a conversation, to | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
say, all right, what happened? | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
So, initially when I heard that I had to | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
give back my medal, I was unhappy and I was upset. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
But then, I was like, you know what, I can't be upset with | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
somebody that I haven't talked to face-to-face, to see and to hear | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
and to see in his face and to listen to what he has | 0:15:00 | 0:15:05 | |
to say to me, you know what I mean? | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
I have no power over this any more. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
You can't get too angry about something you can't | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
really change, you know? | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
All I have to do is to continue getting tested and proving to | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
the world that I'm fine. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:18 | |
Because it shows that if you cheat, you will | 0:15:18 | 0:15:33 | |
get caught. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:38 | |
Do you have any desire in your retirement, maybe you don't | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
quite know, is there anything in you that | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
thinks, maybe I could do | 0:15:43 | 0:15:44 | |
something in that period of my life? | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
Well, definitely, I've been talking to the president of the IAAF | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
and I've been fine to figure out, what could I do | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
at the end of my career to help the sports. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
We've been in discussion, mainly him and my agent, | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
to try to figure out | 0:15:56 | 0:15:57 | |
things that I could do at the end of my career, | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
and I look forward to | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
working with the sports, because I know, when I walk | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
away, there will be a gap. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
So, if I can help to sustain it until someone else comes along, | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
that can really help to push to sport and build it, | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
then I'll be happy. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:20 | |
For me, my childhood was perfect, I wouldn't change anything | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
about my childhood. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:25 | |
I grew up playing cricket, running in the streets, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
playing football in the streets. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:28 | |
The whole community was a tightly-knit group, | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
and I enjoy going back home and just being a part of it. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
It's wonderful. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:34 | |
Well, of course, I'm a little bit disappointed because I thought | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
he could go on for a few more years. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
But he is the one in charge, he makes the decision - | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
as parents, we just have to go with it. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
He was diagnosed as a hyperactive child, so he would always be moving, | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
climbing, always doing something. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:48 | |
So, you have to watch him. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
So, it was very difficult in the early age. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
Up to this day, my parents have been the most influential on my career, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
you know what I mean? | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
My dad made the decision for me to really go into track and field. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
So, throughout my career, I've always had different sort | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
of people throughout my career which has really helped me. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
Mrs Thorpe, which was the head of sports department | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
when I was at school, she really supported me | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
and helped me to push on, and always tried to keep me focused, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
because I was a mischievous kid when I was in high school! | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
He remains the same person, the same person. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:28 | |
Sometimes you would not even know that this is a world champion | 0:17:28 | 0:17:33 | |
that you are talking to. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
All of this have to do with his background, | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
his parents, right? | 0:17:40 | 0:17:41 | |
They are humble people. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
I don't know what he's going to do. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
We are trying to sit down and talk with him, | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
what's he going to do? | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
I don't get it out of him yet, so I'm not sure | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
what he's going to do. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
But I know, he's going to go into some business and so forth. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
Maybe he will still stay in the sports, to do | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
some work, I'm not sure. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
Rio almost looked easy, given 2015 etc, but I'm assuming | 0:18:03 | 0:18:09 | |
Rio almost looked easy, given 2015 etc, but I'm assuming | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
it was nothing like that? | 0:18:31 | 0:18:37 | |
Yeah, it was, I would say, it's never easy. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
But I was in much better shape for Rio. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
But in track and field, nothing is ever easy, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
the workload that it takes to keep on top, or to get the level that | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
you need to be to compete at the best, it's no joke. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:56 | |
Justin Gatlin is in lane four, Usain Bolt is in lane six. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:01 | |
The Olympic 100m final. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
Gatlin gets away well, and Bolt just left a little bit in the box. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
It's Gatlin leading at the moment, and Gatlin is charging. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
But here comes Usain Bolt, and Bolt is going to take it! | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
Usain Bolt gets it! | 0:19:14 | 0:19:14 | |
9.80! | 0:19:14 | 0:19:15 | |
A magnificent seven! | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
The odyssey continues! | 0:19:18 | 0:19:25 | |
Listen to the noise in Rio de Janeiro! | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
Listen to the adulation! | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
Look at the love for this man! | 0:19:29 | 0:19:35 | |
Oh, the atmosphere was good - it was better than I | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
thought it would be. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
But for me, I think all three Olympics played a very important | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
part in making me who I am today, you know what I mean? | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
So, I can't say, this was about better one... | 0:19:49 | 0:19:53 | |
So, I can't say, this was a better one... | 0:19:53 | 0:19:58 | |
But definitely, London was the best one, atmosphere-wise, | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
Beijing was good, but Rio was really surprising, the energy | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
and the amount of people that actually came out and supported, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
so that was good. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:06 | |
Who's going to win this one? | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
USA in the lead, but Bolt has got up with Japan. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
And Usain Bolt is doing what he always does, bringing it home! | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
For Jamaica! | 0:20:13 | 0:20:14 | |
It's gold again! | 0:20:14 | 0:20:15 | |
History, history, history, history! | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
Usain Bolt, the greatest ever! | 0:20:18 | 0:20:24 | |
The World Champs - can you go to London as motivated | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
as you were in Rio, in Beijing? | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
For sure. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:45 | |
The one thing which keeps me going is... | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
Is losing! | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
I can't lose, you know what I mean? | 0:20:50 | 0:20:51 | |
It's just one of those things. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
I've done all I can do in the sport, but to go out | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
losing is not my thing. | 0:20:58 | 0:20:59 | |
I definitely want to go out and do my best, as always, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
to give the fans one of the best goodbyes, if possible, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
you know what I mean? | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
To give the fans a show, because that's what they want | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
to see, they want to see me competing at my best. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
Just say goodbye in style. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:14 | |
So, I'm definitely going to train hard, which I am doing, | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
and just try to stay on top of things and push myself | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
throughout until August. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
So, nobody's going to worry you in London, | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
no new names to look out for? | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
For me, I don't... | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
You know me. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:35 | |
I don't really worry about people until the time is right! | 0:21:35 | 0:21:40 | |
But you don't know who's going to show up. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
You know what I mean? | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
Over the years, as you've seen through my career, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
there's always somebody else, so, I never try to | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
pinpoint one person. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
So, I just sit and watch see what happens when it gets there. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
Nobody going to turn into a Usain Bolt in the future | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
at the minute, in Jamaica? | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
That's a tough ask. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
For me, I've seen, I've learned to just sit and watch now. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
There's a few athletes that I've named over the years that | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
have really let me down! | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
Because I think it's so much easier for athletes now, | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
for their first contracts, they make so much money, | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
it's almost like football and stuff, you get paid so easily. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
It's all about want, I've told De Grasse, listen, yes, | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
you did well at the Olympics, but do you want it? | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
People say, De Grasse is like... | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
We'll see. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
Because I've seen so many athletes done great things | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
when they're young and then, because they done it when they're | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
young, they get paid, and then they start going | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
in the wrong direction. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
So, me, I try not to name names any more, I just sit and watch. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
London week as you said will be a farewell to the fans, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
many of whom would have been there in 2012. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
Still happy memories of those Games? | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Always. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:47 | |
I think it's the right place to go out, because I know | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
London's going to be packed, it's going to be massive, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
people are just happy and the energy in the city is going to be great. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:59 | |
So, I'm looking forward to it, man, I'm really excited to go | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
there and to compete again, because for me, it was one of | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
the best Championships of my life. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
And here comes Usain Bolt! | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
He's pulling away, he's going to win the gold! | 0:23:13 | 0:23:17 | |
The champion becomes a legend! | 0:23:17 | 0:23:18 | |
Every day, the stadium was just always packed with people, | 0:23:18 | 0:23:23 | |
and just cheering on everybody and giving you a great feeling. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
So, for me, it was brilliant, so I'm looking forward to going back | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
in that atmosphere again. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:30 | |
We had Super Saturday, with Mo and Jess and Greg Rutherford - | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
I think you had heats or semis that day - can you remember anything | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
about Super Saturday? | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
I thought it was loud for me, until Mo and Jess came on! | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Oh, my god, it could get louder than this, you know?! | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
So, for me, just feeling that energy, and as you guys know, | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
I feed off the energy of the crowd, it gives me that sense | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
of relief and happiness, that these people have come to see | 0:23:54 | 0:23:59 | |
you compete at your best and perform. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:04 | |
For me, I really enjoy it, so I know it's going to be | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
just out of this world. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:09 | |
I hope I don't cry at the end, though. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
I was going to say that - will you get emotional? | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
I don't know. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:15 | |
If I get emotional in Jamaica, I'll definitely get emotional in London. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
Let's see what happens! | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
I'm not an emotional person, but to know that this | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
will be your last race, in a Championship... | 0:24:24 | 0:24:26 | |
We'll see. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
You can hide it with a bit of sweat. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
Yeah. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
I sweat a lot, so, we'll see! | 0:24:33 | 0:24:39 | |
It's maybe hard for you to assess, but what do you think | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
you leave behind? | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
Well, for me, just a great legacy, you know what I mean? | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
To show to the kids that anything is possible. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
That you can do it without cheating, you know what I mean? | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
I think that's one of the biggest things I'm happy that | 0:24:59 | 0:25:03 | |
I can leave in the sport, that you can do it without cheating. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
If you're going to do this, it's going to be hard work and dedication | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
and a lot of sacrifice. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:11 | |
Are you going to miss the hard work, the sacrifice? | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
No! | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
Definitely not going to miss all of that! | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
But I will miss the competition. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
Think that's one of the biggest things, the hardest things | 0:25:21 | 0:25:23 | |
for me to do, is always, go into a stadium and see | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
competition, feel the energy, then you feel like you just | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
want to go out there and run. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:33 | |
I think that's going to be one of the hardest things for me, | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
watching the 100m finals at the Olympics and the World | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
Championships, that's going to be one of the hardest things. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
It's not going to mean that he's going to fade into oblivion. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
He's going to be doing other things, I'm sure, | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
that he's going to create an impact. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
And if he didn't, I think he's done enough now for his name to go | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
on and on and on for a LONG time to come. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
I don't know what what we're going to do when he's gone. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
But having Usain as a Jamaican, I'm so proud, I'm so happy. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:05 | |
You know, I feel like his second or third mother, you know?! | 0:26:05 | 0:26:13 | |
Even though we'll have people coming again running fast, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
but the overall character of Usain Bolt, I don't think I'll | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
have that again in my lifetime. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
I'm not even sure if my kids will see that again in their lifetime. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
He's one in 1 million. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
Well, I can't be more proud than I am, because sometimes | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
I wonder, I just focus and say, well, just imagine, I am the father | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
of the world's fastest man, he's so popular across the entire world. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
What?! | 0:26:39 | 0:26:41 | |
So it goes. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
For me, for the country, for the Caribbean, for the world | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
of track, we owe our gratitude to Usain Bolt. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:48 | |
And we thank him. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:53 | |
Great guy. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
Do you understand the impact you've had, particularly here in Jamaica? | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
Well, definitely, over the years, I've learnt to understand, | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
and to see what I've done through other people's eyes and just | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
by watching and listening. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
And people keep reminding me, even if you don't know yourself, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
people keep reminding you that you've done such great... | 0:27:10 | 0:27:11 | |
I've done Jamaica proud, and stuff. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:15 | |
So, over the years doing this, I've really learnt to understand | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
the impact that I've heard on the sports, just | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
by people themselves. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
To be role models to the kids and for everybody, it's | 0:27:24 | 0:27:29 | |
something that I enjoy, you know what I mean? | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
Because when I was growing up, I wanted to be like Michael | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
Jordan, Muhammad Ali. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
So, when kids say, Usain, you've inspired me to do greater, | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
or, thank you for being such a hero, it feels good, you know what I mean? | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
I live for this, so it's good. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:48 | |
I really enjoyed this brief visit, because it's helped cement for me | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
a lot of the thoughts I already had about Usain Bolt. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
I've had some of my greatest moments in terms of sitting | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
in the commentary box, commentating on him, | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
and I really should have thanked him more for that! | 0:28:00 | 0:28:06 | |
The problem that we've all got, then, is, what now? | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
There's no turning back, he is leaving, he is going. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
He leaves behind all of these great memories. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:19 | |
And despite what anybody might say, despite people saying that sport | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
goes on, and athletics will be OK, there's one thing which they can't | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
argue with, is that we're all going to miss him. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
Shortly after the filming of this interview, one | 0:28:28 | 0:28:35 | |
of Usain's closest friends, Germaine Mason, sadly | 0:28:35 | 0:28:40 | |
died in a road accident. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:43 | |
Germaine represented Jamaica in the high jump | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
in his early career, before switching allegiance | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
to Great Britain, and winning a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic | 0:28:48 | 0:28:51 | |
Games. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:52 | |
He was 34 years old. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 |