Sprinter Usain Bolt on Wednesday said he had no regrets about his decision to retire from athletics in 2017. “I’ve just done everything I wanted to do in the sport,” Bolt told Reuters before the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco, where he won Sportsman of the Year.
The eight-time Olympic winning Jamaican will run his final race at the world championships in London this August. He completed a ‘treble treble’ at the 2016 Rio Games, bagging gold in the 100 m, 200 m and 4x100 m events.
The 30-year-old lost his 2008 relay Olympic gold medal after fellow runner Nesta Carter failed a doping test. With this, Bolt also lost the record of having won triple gold in three consecutive Games. Carter has said he will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Bolt was nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award along with Mo Farah, who won the 5,000 m and 10,000 m gold in consecutive Olympics, and two-time Olympic tennis champion Andy Murray.
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