3. He Now has a Strong Sense of his Place in History
After his heroics in London, Bolt
spoke, tongue in cheek, about what he had achieved," It's what I came here to do. I'm now a legend." I don't think it is a stretch to say that after these feats, he can now clearly see his place in history. He has done some unique things, and like his heroes before him--Donald Quarrie and Michael Johnson-- these are feats that the average human can only dream about. So if he was to once more perform the double (or the triple including the 4x100 meters) gold medal haul in four years at the 2016 olympic in Rio de Janeiro, he would be in singular company in terms of his abilities to dominate his peers. In sports, it is usually the freaks of nature, the physical outliers, that radically transform our normal expectations of what is possible: Bolt is 6 feet 5 inches, way too tall to be running this fast, but he does it, and does it quite easily. If you factor in the improvement of the times of the other athletes, and some loss in the times ran by Bolt, it still puts him in the medals, but what of the heart of a champion, the raw desire to show that he is the best. A rush of adrenaline on the day could produce something special. If any one can do it, I would bet on the kid that was too tall to be running sub 9.7sec 100 meters races.