He's beaten the best sprinters the world has to offer -- but how would Usain Bolt fare against a Buenos Aires bus?
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| Six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt races a No. 59 bus in Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires -- and wins. |
The six-time Olympic
champion from Jamaica is never one to shirk a challenge, even if it
means racing something 20 times his size.
But while the bus --
crammed with passengers -- worked through the gears Bolt cruised to
victory on 9th of July Avenue in Argentina's capital.
The stunt was part of a
drive to encourage more kids to take up athletics with the 27-year-old
also racing against a clutch of fellow sprinters overs 120m.
Bolt told a press
conference he hoped to be back in South America for the 2016 Rio
Olympics to defend his 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles for the second
time.
"One of my main goals is to go to the Rio Olympics, as I was saying, to do it again," he told reporters.
"To defend my titles and
it's never been done three times so, for me, that's me trying to set the
bar as high as possible. To just push the barrier."
Bolt, who also holds the
100m and 200m world records, spoke of his first foray into running as
part of the drive to boost participation in Argentina
"The first race I
actually won was when I was 10-years-old," he explained. "My cricket
coach bet me to run at my sportsday -- if won I would get a box lunch
and I won. It was great."
Bolt's defeats are few and far between but he revealed the occasional reverse helps to refocus him.
"Losing helps to learn how to motivate myself to learn how to win again," he said. "Winning is happiness for me."
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| Bolt, who holds the world 100m record with a time of 9.58 seconds, completed the 80m race ahead of the public bus that was packed with passengers and afterward shook hands with the driver. |
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