Usain Bolt Out! Olympic Gold Medalist’s Minor Injury Keeps Him From Saturday’s Jamaica International Invitational Meet

It’s difficult to imagine Usain bolt out from a race, particularly from an event in his own country. But the six-time Olympic gold medalist has been ruled out of Saturday’s Jamaica International Invitational meeting because of a slight hamstring strain, his agent said Tuesday as reported by Reuters.

The 100- and 200- meter world record holder felt tightness in training over the weekend and in consultation with Coach Glenn Mills, Usain Bolt decided not to risk anything at this early stage of the season, his agent Ricky Simms said.

In a telephone interview with Reuters, Simms said, "It's a small strain and he's hoping to be OK for next week but you know it's day by day ... maybe for the two or three days. It just a problem of sprinting."

Asks if the injury was serious, Simms replied: "No. He hopes to be running in Cayman by next week, so it's what you call a grade one strain, which is you can't sprint, but you can walk OK. He's not limping or anything."

Bolt was scheduled to run his first 200 meters of the season against Jamaican Olympic bronze medalist Warren Weir and American Wallace Spearmon during the invitational meeting.

The next scheduled race for Usain Bolt is a 100 meter run in the May 8 Cayman Islands meeting.

In a statement, Usain Bolt stated, "I am disappointed to miss the Kingston meet as I love running in front of my home crowd in Jamaica. I'm told it is only a grade one strain so hopefully I will be OK soon."

Bolt began his running season in style last March 31 on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach with a 14.42 seconds clocking over 150 meters on the purpose-built track.

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