With no championships scheduled next year, Jamaican sprint king says he will only focus on running faster
Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt has set his sights on breaking his own 200-metre world record in 2014 with no competitions to distract his focus.
Usain Bolt. Pic/Getty Images.
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Bolt, who was last week named IAAF male World Athlete of the Year for a fifth time, captured yet another triple gold haul at the worldu00a0championships in Moscow this summer, defending his 100 and 200m titles before anchoring the Jamaican team to victory in the 4x100 relay. But records were off the agenda for Bolt this year despite claiming the world-leading 200 time in Moscow — a situation the 27-year-old is keen tou00a0rectify as he plans his strategy for 2014.
“Definitely for this season me and my coach have decided to focus on running faster because there is no championship, so we are definitelyu00a0targeting the 200 metres,” Bolt said during a visit to Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on Friday.
“We’ll see what happens. Hopefully,u00a0I can stay injury-free and everything will go well this season and I can break the world record.” Bolt set the current 200m world mark of 19.19s and the 100 record of 9.58 at the world championships in Berlin in 2009.
Bolt said: “It’s all about not getting injured this season. That’s my focus, and then we’re going to try to push myself and hopefully get the world record and it will all work out. We’re going to run a lot more 200 this season and we’ll see if we can get it done.”
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