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There are times in sport when you wonder if you don’t spend rather too much of your life bothering with it, and then again, there are moments when you know beyond all doubt that sport can be as marvellous a thing as we humans are capable of coming up with. That’s if you think that joy and aspiration and the pursuit and capture of excellence are marvellous things.
 
Bolt has lit up the Games and rekindled the world’s joy in his sport and in the sad and discredited sprinting events. He has allowed us to find a real and simple delight in the sight of an extraordinary man performing extraordinary deeds.
 
I long to see him run again, I long still more for his retirement. It can’t come soon enough, to be frank. I really don’t think I can bear the is-he-isn’t-he tension that the rest of his career will involve. I don’t want to be deprived of the memory of two of the great races I - and anyone else - has ever seen. “