Usain Bolt's unparalleled success in sprinting is a testament to a unique combination of innate talent, scientific understanding of the sport, rigorous training, and exceptional mental fortitude that allowed him to overcome physical limitations and intense pressure.
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My salute to the winners. Mr. Bolt has it all: a
style befitting a speed world champion and a surname that seems tailor-
made for the world's fastest man.
But Mr. Bolt's meteoric journey was
n't so easy. The 100- and 200-meter races are as much a
sport as they are a science. Your
technique and body structure make a huge difference.
Usain Bolt had some
flaws. Researchers at SMU Texas
observed that Usain Bolt's left leg
generates less force than his right leg. According to Mr.
Bolt's autobiography,
due to scoliosis, his left leg
is 1 inch shorter than his right leg, so he
generates more force with one leg. On the other hand, the
average height of sprinters is 6 feet,
while Mr. Bolt is 6 feet 5 inches. His
coach used to say that he should run 400 meters instead of 100 meters,
but Mr. Bolt was
passionate about sprinting. No sprinter can
accelerate to 100 meters. Bolt reaches
his top speed in 60 to 70 meters.
Whereas other athletes, due to their shorter height,
can take more steps and
reach their top speed more quickly,
how does Usain Bolt win races? Contemporary sports
scientists say that a 100-meter race is won
not by a fast start, i.e., a single jump, but by not
slowing down at the end, i.e.,
by minimal deceleration. Mr. Bolt does
n't let his speed drop too much in the final 30 meters
and wins the race by coming from behind.
Similarly, a sprinter
doesn't accelerate by moving his feet quickly through the air; rather, his
acceleration depends on the force his legs can
push back against the ground.
With excellent technique, a top sprinter can
generate a force of 10 times his body weight with one leg,
and Mr. Bolt can
generate a force of over 455 kg with his straight leg. This
means that sprinting
is a game of science, technique, and balance.
In this 10-second game, you can't afford to make a mistake.
A small mistake, a fall, a fall, or an
injury can
ruin years of hard work. Bolt's unique talent is that,
despite his physical limitations, he remained in the race for nine years. But staying strong
requires a strong mind that can handle any kind of pressure.
pressure.
You'll see this unique quality of Bolt repeatedly in this video and in his many interviews.
interviews.
Before that day, no one had
seen so much swagger at the Olympics.
In the oldest and biggest event of the Olympics, no one
expected that the 100-meter race could be
won so easily. Mr. Bolt
Bolt
started thumping his chest and raising his hands 20 meters before the end of the race.
Onlookers understood that Usain
Bolt had jokingly broken the world record. The
full picture is yet to come. After that, Usain
Bolt won nine medals in nine Olympic events.
He had to return one medal because one of his
teammates failed a dope test.
Sports psychiatrist Steve Peters says that the
100-meter start line is a place
where even the best of athletes start to tremble.
There, Bolt stands in a relaxed manner
and listens to his supporters.
Bolt has learned to completely relax himself before a big race,
or he
starts focusing on the race at the right time.
Or has he completely conquered the fear of failure?
According to sports psychology,
his attitude is perfect, and
we may never see such a combination of personality and speed again.
In an interview, when asked
what goes through Usain Bolt's mind when the final race arrives, all athletes' hearts beat faster and adrenaline pumps throughout their bodies.
Bolt said, "I
try to think about random things like what I'll
eat tonight, who I'll meet tomorrow,
etc. But as soon as the referee says '
On your marks,' my entire focus
locks on the race. We see that
Bolt's personality completely changes."
Bolt himself says, "When I go on the track, I
feel that no one can beat me.
Friends, Bolt's
carefree personality is just a
facade. The real story is hidden in the 22-year-old
Bolt's words." My coach
's answer is always no. No matter how
well I run a race or how well I perform my
drills, if asked, "What am I?" If their
technique is good, they'll likely answer no.
Perhaps that's a coach's job. However, Bolt was
n't always a top athlete. Coach Mills
began working with Bolt when he was
plagued by injuries, and critics predicted
the 18-year-old's international career would
end in two or three years.
At 15, Bolt won the 200-meter race,
becoming the youngest ever world champion.
Before that, no one had won a world championship at 15 or younger.
Two years later, at 17,
he broke the world junior record in the same competition.
Jamaica as a whole
hoped this young man would bring the country its first
Olympic medal, but Usain Bolt was
eliminated in the first round of the 2004 Olympics due to injury. He says he suffered repeated injuries from the moment he
became a professional athlete. He
actually suffered from
scoliosis, a condition that causes a
slight curvature of the spine, sometimes leading to an
S-shaped curve. Bolt
says he didn't suffer from any problems during his childhood,
but in the first year of becoming a professional athlete, he struggled. He became
overworked, and scoliosis led to
hamstring injuries, but this was
unknown to the Jamaican media. Everyone
speculated and claimed that
Bolt had faked his pain out of fear of losing the Olympics.
This was another big lesson for Bolt. His
coach, he said, would speak out. A
A
specialist therapist was called in, and Bolt began training harder to
strengthen his spine and neck. The
first results came three years later when
he won two silver medals in 2007.
Bolt says that Coach Mills transformed him
from a faltering, flabby athlete into a champion,
but the 15-
year-old Bolt had to learn how to handle pressure himself. In 2002, at the
Junior World Championships in Jamaica,
everyone said, "You're not cut out to run the 100 meters."
Today, that 15-year-old
boy was hesitant to run in front of his town.
Bolt's mother says that he was
so scared that he was crying. All the other
boys were bigger and stronger than his town.
Bolt didn't want to lose to the opponent. He
overcame his fear that day and won the race. He says
that overcoming his fear was the
turning point in his life. After that, I
never let any race weigh heavily on me. And
this is what we see in his work ethic as well. There's no such
thing as effortless performance. When many people see him running, they
say, "You make sprinting look
so easy." He says, "Absolutely effortless."
Bolt says, "
Everything is very difficult before reaching that level. Every day, morning and evening, is a
sacrifice." When you
train with all your might, your body aches and says, "
Stop, let's go home." When you
wake up in the morning, you remember that today's training is very difficult. You
feel like not going and resting at home,
but you have to go. Training is
much harder than racing. Some people say
that in a few years, we wo
n't have any tracks left, because
you're taking all this home with your sweat. The
reporter, watching Usain Bolt practice,
says, "We've never seen you in so much pain."
Bolt immediately replies, "
You came to see the reality, the real work is on the
screen." "What happens behind the scenes is a brief
glimpse of what happens behind the scenes. We're doing everything just for that one race." The
next thing Bolt says is that
you can't find confidence by going into a race.
You have to prepare for it in advance. "
I can't go into a race and think
that the athlete next to me can beat me. Even if the athlete
next to me is a world champion, you're just racing at
your best sprint race. Who
knows, he might have a bad day today,"
Bolt says. "So, first of all, it's important to be mentally prepared." "
Learn how to lose," Bolt says. "
I don't let the pressure get to me. You
always remind yourself that
you can't win everything. Some will win, some will lose. That's how
sport is. My coach
first taught me that if you want to
win long, first learn to lose." What he
meant by that was, "Learn to recognize defeat and learn to capitalize on it. Only then
can you win long." "Push the
mental barrier," Bolt says. "I've
seen many athletes who
try to do more than necessary in the beginning
but can't complete their training." "Over the
years, I've come to understand this. My
coach used to say that the last set is the most important set," he says. "The real thing is that the last set is the most important set."
Improvement, especially mental,
comes in the last set when you feel like
going home, then you have to go beyond the mental barrier,
pushing this obstacle or barrier
is improvement, friends, if you
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