Usain Bolt thinks he still could have won the gold medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020

Usain Bolt won eight Olympic titles for Jamaica during his incredible career in athletics. The 35-year-old was absent from his first summer Olympic Games since Athens 2004. And he could have won the gold medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020.

"I really missed it. I was like, I wish I was there," he said in an interview with AFP. "Because for me, I live for those moments. So it was hard to watch."He said about Tokyo olympics 2020.

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Lamont Marcel Jabos won the the 100m title with a time of 9.80s. The Italian sprinter with his team-mates also took the title in the 4x100m. Bolt thinks that he could have been fighting for a podium place, if he was at the Olympics.

"My coach said something to me at the end of my career. He said, 'People are not getting faster. I was getting slower.' I never looked at it that way," said Bolt.

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"And it's the facts because a lot of guys don't really get faster. Because I have pushed the barrier so far and then I started going backwards time-wise, so for me 9.80 was possible to get done."