Bolt is in Jamaica and for the first time since the 2004 Athens Olympics, the winner in the 100 or 200 meters will not be named Usain Bolt.
- It will be strange, Bolt, who will follow the games from the TV couch in Jamaica, has previously said.
That's not the only thing Bolt thinks is strange.
In a new interview from a training facility in Jamaica, Bolt, wearing the Jamaican national team uniform, comments on the new super shoes with energy-absorbing soles and carbon fiber plates that have revolutionized athletics and driven the development of results.
Usain Bolt is quite modest and thinks that he would at least have run below 9.50 (his world record from 2009 is 9.58) in the new super shoes but he does not like the development.
"A rule is a rule"
- For me, it's strange to know.
It's unfair to all athletes because I know that they (the shoe manufacturers) tried before and people (the International Athletics Federation) said "no we can not change the nails."
Knowing that they are actually doing it is ridiculous, Bolt told Reuters after World Athletics now changed.
At the same time, he realizes that the ball is rolling and that it is just a matter of adapting to developments.
- I can 't do anything about it.
A rule is a rule.
It started with a marathon where Eliud Kipchpge first became a marathon for two hours in a prepared race in Vienna in 2019 and then the scout development has reached arena sports. Both the world records in the 400 meter hurdles, Karsten Warholm, and Sydney McLaughlin, have been broken during the early summer and the 10,000 meter record for women has been broken twice. In addition, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran 100 meters at 10.63, which is the second fastest in world history after Florence Griffith Joyners 10.49 from 1988.