Usain Bolt was so fast that it's almost silly to try to put it into words. The Jamaican sprinter, who won eight Olympic gold medals and set multiple world records during an unprecedented decade of ...

AFP continues its look back at the history of the Olympics to pick out some of the legends that have lit up the Games. British rower Sir Steve Redgrave is the only endurance sport athlete to have won ...

Across a glittering career, Bolt became an 11-time world champion, an eight-time Olympic gold medallist, and broke the 100m ...

Usain Bolt never achieved a record that is currently held by a British sprinter. Bolt is widely regarded as the greatest ever sprinter, with the Jamaican having set both the 100m (9.58 seconds) and ...

(L-R) USA's Justin Gatlin and Jamaica's Usain Bolt compete in the final of the men's 100 metres athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium in Beijing on ...