Long jump next for Bolt

Luca · August 25, 2009, 8:46pm

You’d struggle to find many athletes under 11 in either code.

Long Jump??? wtf. Maybe for the novelty value but that’s about all. Hopefully he continues in the 100/200 & 4 x 100 and the occasional non-championship 400m for another 10 years. I don’t give a fats rats clacker whether an athlete doesn’t get near him for a decade. He’s compulsive viewing regardless.

There’s talk in Australia that the National Rugby League and the Australian Football league want Bolt to appear at half time of their respective Grand Finals. $250,000 from each of the NRL & AFL for a combined purse of $500,000. The catch is they want him to run against the fastest footballers in each code. Naturally a handicap start of about 10m is on the cards, although I reckon he coud start from the third tier of the Southern Stand and still knock them over.

Whilst it’s unlikely to happen, the biggest obstacle might not be Bolt’s availability but that of the footy stars. No self respecting footballer would like to be shown up as a slow moving schmuck on the big stage.