Is it not time for Mr Bolt to be a little less vain?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.c...ed&utm_medium=twitter

We have seen other Gold medallists accept their medals with such humbleness, thanking their team mates trainers and families, but not Mr Bolt.

/// 'I'm now a legend. I am the greatest athlete to live' ///

/// Bolt had said the dominance of Jamaica was the result of hard work and training: ///

Then how is it they are only 19th in the medals table?

[jack111]

He won gold medals and I think he should be able to act how he wants (within the law)

[bazwillrun]

"I think he's entitled to be arrogant.

"If I was the best in the world at something, my ego would be massive too."

you mean like federer for instance ?!

form is temporary ...class is permanent

bolt has form.....at the moment but has no class

so now we'll probably have a generation of new athletes copying his pre and post race posturing, just like the kids that copy the antics of the modern day footballers

[vodkancoke]

I am a huge fan of his. Apart from the fact he is Jamaican and delicious, he can behave any way he likes. I don't think he has ever claimed to be a top doctor, so why compare him to one? You have to take what he says with a pinch of salt. I doubt he takes himself seriously at all.

[jno]

aog, you might not have considered this, but his "posturing" is actually a force for good:

"Bolt sprints like no champion ever has. By greeting his audience with a laugh and a little dancing-fingers mime show, he single-handedly revoked the licence of sprinters to throw gangsta shapes on the start line. Henceforward their threatening, glowering poses would provoke only derision."

That's from the Guardian, but accurate, I think.

As to whether he's the greatest athlete ever, I have no idea. He is certainly the fastest man who ever lived, and that is quite something.

Such a shame he can't paint as well as Damien Hirst, of course.

[funnygirl]

Bolt is a legend and I say to him carry on posturing!!!

[Mick-Talbot]

Can I just add

woooooo hooooooo Mo Farah go Mo go.


(he did some sit ups after winning the 5000 metres) how vain .......

[Prudie]

Bolt has won the double at 2 consecutive Olympics at arguably the most high-profile events. What do you expect him to say - Oh I was awful really??
Good on him and he's setting himself up for the future too by being a 'character'

[FredPuli43]

Clay/ Ali always said that he got the idea of playing the boasting braggart from a wrestler he saw who performed just like that. It filled the halls, because people would come in the hope of seeing someone shut the egomaniac up. That's what gets promoters interested too.

Mind, it helps the act, if, in fact, you are the greatest boxer who ever lived ! Bolt doesn't need to behave like that, unlike Clay/Ali trying to get the title fight by getting the public, and so promoters, interested in him or get bigger sales later, but he's a natural extrovert anyway and what he does seems genuine and natural. False modesty is as bad as any false boast.

[Mick-Talbot]

Bolt doesn't need to behave like that, unlike Clay/Ali trying to get the title fight by getting the public, and so promoters, interested in him or get bigger sales later,

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Never heard of Athletic Meetings Fred ?

[FredPuli43]

Yes, Mick,I've heard of athletics meetings, but Bolt will fill any stadium without doing anything other than being the fastest sprinter already, and has been able to do so for quite some while. The only draw he needs is the possibility that he might break a world record next time, which is quite independent of anything he does, or doesn't say. Clay/Ali usually had to work the act to get the viewing figures, particularly when he fought some no hopers, as he inevitably did once in a while, even when champion.

[Mick-Talbot]

Like Leon spinks ?

I disagree, my kids want to see Mr Bolt ....probably because of his antics

[Gromit]

He is just having a whale of a time....

http://www.telegraph....new-world-record.html