Usain Bolt Releases Book

Usain Bolt has released his autobiography. It's about a skinny kid from the parish of Trelawny, where they harvest the best yams in the world. It's about growing up playing cricket and football in the warm Jamaican sun, then discovering that he could run
fast, very fast. It's about family, friends and the laid-back Jamaican
culture. It's about Auntie Lillian's pork and dumplings and Dad's
grocery store in the sleepy village of Sherwood Content.

It's about what makes him tick, where he gets his motivation and where he
takes his inspiration. It's about the highs and the lows, the
dedication and sacrifices required to get to the top. It's about fast
food, partying, dancehall music, fast cars and that lightning bolt
pose. It's about radiating sport's biggest smile.

This is the story of the fastest man on the planet

It's also about ambitions he has of playing other sports, such as football."Ideally, if I was to play football, I'd sign for my favorite team -- Manchester United. People say it's not realistic but nobody has seen me play so you never know. If Alex Ferguson saw me in one of those charity matches he might think I could replace Ryan Giggs."

Usain Bol...Eight days ... ... three gold medals ...... three world records ... one amazing reputation firmly established. Usain Bolt's life – and the world of sport – would never be quite the same again.

16 August 2008 ... Beijing, China ... the Bird's Nest stadium ... 91,000 spectators and an unimaginably huge global television audience ... the final of the men's 100 metres at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.

Since those heady days of the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, Usain Bolt has lowered both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records once again - to a barely believable 9.58 and 19.19 seconds respectively - as the World Championships in Berlin brought two more gold medals and yet more superlatives.

With a stroke, the Jamaican has become the greatest sports star in the world.

9.58 is Usain Bolt's story so far, in his own words, beautifully illustrated with dozens of specially commissioned photographs..

Usain St Leo Bolt, was born in Trelawny, Jamaica, in August of 1986. At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, he won gold in the 100m (9.69 seconds), the 200m (19.30) and the 4x100m relay (37.10), becoming the first man to win three sprinting events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984. He also became the first man to setworld records in all three at a single Olympics. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 he claimed the sprinting double, and became the first man to hold the 100m and 200m World and Olympic titles at the same time. He broke the world records for both the 100m (9.58) and the 200m (19.19) in the process. In 2009 he was voted Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, and he also won the BBC's Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award in both 2008 and 2009.
He lives in Kingston, Jamaica.