Usain Bolt remains track and field’s ultimate idol

• Despite being retired for nine years, the Jamaican sprints legend still remains the magnetic centre of gravity for the sports world.
• World Athletics President Sebastian Coe had confessed that he had to get a role that would keep Bolt hooked onto track and field.

Even nearly a decade after hanging up his golden Puma spikes, the world’s fastest man ever, Usain Bolt, is still dictating the pace of track and field -- even if he would rather be pacing his living room watching his favourite football club, Manchester United.

Perhaps that’s why it wasn’t a particularly appropriate moment for World Athletics to organise a media roundtable with the Jamaican legend in a VIP sky box of the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, just as the early-season Manchester Premiership derby between United and City was kicking off.

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