Identified for his iconic celebrations and world-record-breaking occasions, eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt shared a strong piece of recommendation from his long-time coach on this week’s episode of the Excessive-Efficiency Podcast.
Bolt credited his coach, Glen Mills—who led the Jamaican Olympic observe and subject group for 20 years—for the recommendation that formed the remainder of his profession. Mills started teaching Bolt after his Olympic debut in Athens 2004, the place Bolt, then a rising expertise, didn’t advance from the lads’s 200m heats.
After that, Mills instructed Bolt, “You need to learn to lose earlier than you may learn to win.” As an adolescent, Bolt didn’t absolutely grasp what Mills meant by it, but it surely grew to become clear. “You’ll fail in some unspecified time in the future,” Bolt mentioned on the podcast. “What’s vital is what you are taking away and be taught from it. When you could be truthful and trustworthy with your self, you’ll notice what that you must do to get higher.”
Bolt got here to Mills as a 200m specialist and credit his coach with growing his explosive energy within the 100m—a distance during which Bolt set a world document of 9.58 seconds in 2009, a document that continues to be unbroken.
Bolt went on to develop into the seventh man in historical past to win Olympic gold in each the 100m and 200m on the 2008 Video games in Beijing, a feat he completed twice extra in his profession, at London 2012 and Rio 2016—making him the one athlete in historical past to attain a three-peat in these two dash occasions.
The 38-year-old formally retired after the 2017 World Championships and briefly tried his hand at skilled soccer with Australia’s Central Coast Mariners in 2018.
