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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was dubbed "the fastest man alive" after winning three gold medals at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and becoming the first man in Olympic history to win both the and meter races in record times. Bolt also won three Olympic gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games in London, along the way notching an Olympic-record time of 9. He made history again at the Summer Games in Rio with gold medals in the and meter races and 4xmeter relay; the wins gave him a "triple-triple" — three golds over three consecutive Olympics — though he later was stripped of one of the relay golds because of a teammate's doping violation.

Bolt was born on August 21, , in Jamaica. Both a standout cricket player and a sprinter early on, Bolt's natural speed was noticed by coaches at school, and he began to focus solely on sprinting under the tutelage of Pablo McNeil, a former Olympic sprint athlete.

Glen Mills would later serve as Bolt's coach and mentor. As early as age 14, Bolt was wowing fans with his lightning speed, and he won his first high school championship medal in , taking the silver in the meter race. At the age of 15, Bolt took his first shot at success on the world stage at the World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica, where he won the meter dash, making him the youngest world-junior gold medalist ever.

At the Berlin World Championships, Bolt set a world record time of 9. Despite a nagging hamstring injury, Bolt was chosen for the Jamaican Olympic squad for the Athens Olympics.

He was eliminated in the first round of the meters, though, again hampered by injury. Bolt reached the world Top 5 rankings in and Unfortunately, injuries continued to plague the 6'5" sprinter, preventing him from completing a full professional season.

In , Bolt broke the national meter record held for over 30 years by Donald Quarrie, and earned two silver medals at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan. These medals boosted Bolt's desire to run, and he took a more serious stance toward his career. At the Beijing Summer Olympics, Bolt ran the meter and meter events. In the meter final leading up to the Games, he broke the world record, winning in 9.

Not only was the record set without a favorable wind, but he also visibly slowed down to celebrate before he finished and his shoelace was untied , an act that aroused much controversy later on. He went on to win three gold medals and break three world records in Beijing. At the Summer Olympic Games, held in London, Bolt won his fourth Olympic gold medal in the men's meter race, beating rival Yohan Blake, who won silver in the event. Bolt ran the race in 9. The win marked Bolt's second consecutive gold medal in the He went on to compete in the men's , claiming his second consecutive gold medal in that race as well.

He became the first man to win both the and in consecutive Olympic Games, as well as the first man to ever win back-to-back gold medals in double sprints.

Bolt's accomplishments made him the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic Games competition. Bolt returned to Olympic glory at the Summer Olympic Games when he won gold in the meter race, making him the the first athlete to win three successive titles in the event.

He finished the race in 9. He continued his Olympic winning streak, taking gold in the meters in I have made the sport exciting, I have made people want to see the sport. I have put the sport on a different level. The "fastest man alive" remained undefeated in what he said would be the last race of his Olympic career, the 4xmeter relay, which he ran with teammates Blake, Asafa Powell and Nickel Ashmeade.

Anchoring the race, Bolt led the Jamaican team to gold, crossing the finish line in It was the third consecutive gold medal win for Bolt in Rio. I'm now a legend. I'm also the greatest athlete to live. I've got nothing left to prove. Bolt is an time world champion. He holds the world records in races for meters, at 9. Participating in the , and summer Olympic Games, Bolt completed a "triple-triple," with a total of nine gold medals earned in the meter, meter and 4xmeter relay races.

In doing so, Bolt joined just two other triple-triple runners: Paavo Nurmi of Finland in , and and Carl Lewis of the United States in , , and However in January , the International Olympic Committee stripped Bolt of one of these medals, for the 4xmeter relay, because his teammate Nesta Carter was found guilty of a doping violation. Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend.

The Jamaican sprinter set the world record for the meter dash, clocking in at 9. Since then, no one not even Bolt himself has been able to best that time. But Bolt comes close—thanks to a combination of having all the advantages of a natural-born sprinter and putting in the effort needed to minimize any of his disadvantages. Broadly speaking, Bolt has the unique muscular build shared by most of the very best sprinters.

All human muscles are made of a mix of slow- and fast-twitch fibers—as well as some that are undifferentiated, and will become slow- or fast-twitch depending on how we use them most often.

Slow-twitch fibers are built for efficiency and use oxygen to generate energy from sugar. Training can help shape undifferentiated fibers into either slow- or fast-twitch, but for the most part the best runners were born with an imbalance of one or the other.

Elite marathoners have way more slow-twitch fibers, and sprinters like Bolt have an abundance of fast-twitch ones. The best sprinters also run with a different form than the rest of us. The more force a sprinter can pack into the ground with a quick foot strike, the faster he or she goes.

But it appears Bolt generates a powerful punch to the track—maybe the most powerful ever. Udofa slowed down and analyzed footage of Bolt running in the meter dash in the World Athletic Championships in Monaco.

Udofa estimated that Bolts strikes the track with more than 1, pounds of force on average. The same physics principles apply when seeking to achieve maximum force in other sports , too. Based on our size relative to the rest of the animal kingdom, humans should actually be speedy.

But cheetahs have long, flexible spines that give them a massive stride length between their front and hind legs.