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Olympic champion expects to bounce back from poor performance … says only London matters

Despite a less than convincing performance in Ostrava a few days ago, when he clocked the slowest 100m time in his professional career, world’s fastest man Usain Bolt says he is unaffected with London Olympic Games just a few months away.

The double Olympic Champion has struggled to explain the 10.04 clocking which, despite being good enough to claim first place at the Golden Spikes meet, looked a long way off an average day, let alone his best. After spending an eternity in the starting blocks, Bolt struggled to overtake the field, but got the better of Kim Collins (St Kitts and Nevis) 10.19 and Darvis Patton (US) 10.22.

my rivals

“I don’t know what my rivals will think about it,” Bolt told UK online publication (www.walesonline.co.uk).

However, the athlete has made it clear that he will not be bothered by only one race and that the focus remained defending his titles at the London Games.

“It’s all about the Olympics. Losing one race, losing two races doesn’t matter, it’s about getting to the Olympics and doing your best.”

However, the last time the athlete failed to break the ten second barrier was on a cold wet night in Toronto, in a race that there were three false starts and he admits that he continues to be puzzled by the performance. Bolt began the season in impressive form with a 9.82 clocking at the Jamaica International Invitational and looked to be well on his way back to top form.

“My legs kind of felt dead. I don’t know the reason. Hopefully I can figure out what went wrong and I can fix it for the next run. I never felt the power out of my legs. It was going through the motions, really.

“Normally when I run I can tell what went wrong. Normally I can. I didn’t feel as explosive running from the blocks. My first 40 was really, really bad,” he said.

“It was just a bad day, I have to get past it and look forward to the next one.

“Losing one race, losing two races doesn’t matter, it’s about getting to the Olympics …”.