Bolt wants to be a professional footballer
16 Oct 2013 5:51 AM IST
And once he hangs up his running shoes, Bolt wants to become a professional footballer in a club in England.
In fact, had Bolt not specialised in track and field event, he would probably have played cricket, smashing sixes and taking wickets, says the athlete in his first full-length autobiography ‘Faster Than Lightning’ published by Harper Collins.
And why not? For, Bolt was excited watching the likes of another Jamaican cricket icon and pacer Courtney Walsh and batting legend Brian Lara and hung out with friends ‘smashing sixes around the school field’ in his hometown.
‘I really liked the kids who enjoyed cricket and I would hit it off with anyone who had a bat and a ball’, says the athlete. Bolt believes he had all the ingredients of a good cricketer -- bowling with speed coming down hard on batsmen, a fast fielder and as a batsman.
‘In cricket, when I bowled, I could come down on the wicket hard, with speed and I was quick in the field... At the age of eight, I was taking wickets of cricketers a lot older than me, guys that were 10 or 11 years old... It wasn’t long before I had opened the batting for Waldensia (his village school) a couple of years earlier than most kids even made the team’, says Bolt. ‘I loved cricket but I never thought I could make anything of my speed other than as a bowler’, he says.
Farah set to miss 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow
London: Mo Farah said Tuesday he does not plan to compete at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The reigning Olympic 5,000 metres and 10,000m champion, would be eligible to run for England at an event where the United Kingdom is split into its four constituent nations -- England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Instead his main target for 2014 is to run in the London Marathon, with Farah saying the Commonwealth Games ‘is not on my list’. But Farah said he’d still to decide if he’d run the marathon at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
‘I don’t know. It just depends how I come off that marathon,’ he told BBC Radio 5 Live. ‘My aim is to do the London Marathon and that is what I am fully focused on. ‘It’s a bonus if I do it, but it is not on my list,’ added Farah, born in Somalia but brought up in London, of the Commonwealth Games.
‘I’ve got to come off the marathon healthy and then I’d make a decision. You’ve just got to choose one race It all depends on how London goes,’ said he on Rio 2016.
In fact, had Bolt not specialised in track and field event, he would probably have played cricket, smashing sixes and taking wickets, says the athlete in his first full-length autobiography ‘Faster Than Lightning’ published by Harper Collins.
And why not? For, Bolt was excited watching the likes of another Jamaican cricket icon and pacer Courtney Walsh and batting legend Brian Lara and hung out with friends ‘smashing sixes around the school field’ in his hometown.
‘I really liked the kids who enjoyed cricket and I would hit it off with anyone who had a bat and a ball’, says the athlete. Bolt believes he had all the ingredients of a good cricketer -- bowling with speed coming down hard on batsmen, a fast fielder and as a batsman.
‘In cricket, when I bowled, I could come down on the wicket hard, with speed and I was quick in the field... At the age of eight, I was taking wickets of cricketers a lot older than me, guys that were 10 or 11 years old... It wasn’t long before I had opened the batting for Waldensia (his village school) a couple of years earlier than most kids even made the team’, says Bolt. ‘I loved cricket but I never thought I could make anything of my speed other than as a bowler’, he says.
Farah set to miss 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow
London: Mo Farah said Tuesday he does not plan to compete at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The reigning Olympic 5,000 metres and 10,000m champion, would be eligible to run for England at an event where the United Kingdom is split into its four constituent nations -- England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Instead his main target for 2014 is to run in the London Marathon, with Farah saying the Commonwealth Games ‘is not on my list’. But Farah said he’d still to decide if he’d run the marathon at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
‘I don’t know. It just depends how I come off that marathon,’ he told BBC Radio 5 Live. ‘My aim is to do the London Marathon and that is what I am fully focused on. ‘It’s a bonus if I do it, but it is not on my list,’ added Farah, born in Somalia but brought up in London, of the Commonwealth Games.
‘I’ve got to come off the marathon healthy and then I’d make a decision. You’ve just got to choose one race It all depends on how London goes,’ said he on Rio 2016.
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