Usain Bolt, farewell to London 2017, photo by PhotoRun.net
RunBlogRun opines: The room for the London pressers fit, comfortably, about 150. In this presser, there were at least 250 people, and it was, well, a madhouse.
Usain Bolt patiently answered all questions, with the exception of a writer who repeated the exact question from before.
Watch this entire video, as Usain makes some good comments. More importantly, he was honest about his feelings on this less than glorious day. When I was asked by Japanese TV who will replace Usain Bolt, I told them, that no one could.
That is the wrong question, in fact.
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Senior Writer Jeff Benjamin has written for almost 40 years for RunBlogRun! The Former President of the Staten Island AC & was the 5th man scorer for his 1982 Susan Wagner High School NYC XC City Championship team. Also a member of the College of Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame for XC, Jeff is also a retired NYC DOE history teacher. Some of Jeff's subjects have included Sebastian Coe, Eamonn Coghlan, Matt Centrowitz, Billy Mills, Joe Newton, Tom Fleming, Bill Rodgers, Abel Kiviat, Frank Shorter, Rod Dixon and Carl Lewis as well as Book Reviews and articles covering track meets and races primarily in the Northeast U.S. and beyond.
Jeff has also covered Track & Field events at the 1996, 2016 & 2024 Olympic Games as well as the 2022 World T&F Championships in Eugene, Oregon. A noted T&F historian and chronicler of the athletic achievements of Jim Thorpe, Jeff helped with the restoration of Thorpe to the official IOC 1912 Record Books.
In 2023 Jeff was honored with the awarded the prestigious James Dunaway memorial award for excellence in Track and Field journalism by the Track and Field Writers Association.
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