Photo: Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt has decided to call it quits for his 2014 track season and as such will not be featuring at the Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meeting on Thursday (August 28). He was down to compete in the 100m, which would have been his third individual race for the season after wins in Brazil and Poland.
On Sunday, organisers of the Weltklasse meeting confirmed that following his 100m victory at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Warsaw on Saturday, the Jamaican sprinter has decided to end his season and will therefore miss the Zurich event.
In a statement, organisers said: “As has been widely reported Usain Bolt’s background training this year was disrupted by injury. His coach Glen Mills is satisfied with his performances in the three competitions he took part in, but feels it is now time to shut it down while he is healthy and injury free with a view on his preparations for the 2015 season. He will now take a period of rest, do some sponsor activities and then resume training in October.”
The six-time Olympic gold medallist’s outing in Poland was only his second individual 100m of the summer after he was forced to delay his return to competitive action following a foot injury.
Bolt had been due to line up alongside the likes of Britain’s newly-crowned European champions Adam Gemili and James Dasaolu in Zurich.
The season will close with him winning Gold from Glasgow, after he anchored Jamaica team to Commonwealth 4x100m title, before making his 100m season debut at the ‘Mano a Mano’ sprint on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro last weekend when he clocked 10.06. He clocked a sub-10 seconds for the first time this season in Poland with 9.98, a world indoor record, erasing the 10.03 mark set by Former Track Star Frankie Fredricks.
Usain will now set his sights on the 2015 World Championship, where he hopes to continue to write his legendary story, and the 2016, where he is keen on winning his third Olympic double in the short sprints, before putting on the lid to his career in 2017.
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