A laid back Usain Bolt has decided the best way to improve his not-so-perfect start is not to worry about it, the Jamaican world record holder said on Thursday. "The more I focused on it, I think the worse it got," Bolt told Reuters in an interview following a packed news conference.
Starting has never been a work of art for Bolt as he struggled to squeeze his long legs into the blocks and then tries to get them moving at full stride but the woes have increased in the past 12 months. First there was the false start in the final of last year's world championship 100 meters that ended his chances of defending his title in South Korea.
Then a month ago at the Jamaican Olympic trials, a sluggish Bolt lost the 100 and 200 to world sprint champion and training partner Yohan Blake, as in the shorter race he was way off the pace over the opening strides.
"So I sat down with my coach," Bolt said in an interview arranged by his kit sponsor Puma. "He said stop worrying about the start and compete. So that is the plan (in London). Forget the start and get it (the race) right."
A strained hamstring that slowed him at the Jamaican trials has healed, and the world's top sprinter says he is now in championship mode with no major thought of trying to better his 2009 world record of 9.58 seconds for the 100 meters.
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