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- Usain Bolt 'not worried' about records being broken by today's cast of sprinters</p>
<p>EDDIE PELLSSeptember 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM</p>
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<p>1 / 3Japan Athletics WorldsFormer sprinter, Jamaica's Usain Bolt makes his signature pose at the end of a press conference ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)</p>
<p>TOKYO (AP) — In the 16 years since Usain Bolt posted his world records in the 100 and 200 meters, nobody has really come close to toppling them.</p>
<p>One of track's all-time greats and maybe still its most-recognizable star said he looks at today's top sprinters and doesn't expect that to change anytime soon.</p>
<p>"I'm not worried," Bolt said at a Puma event on Thursday, two days before the start of world championships that will be the first he has attended in person since he retired from competition eight years ago.</p>
<p>Bolt set both records — 9.58 in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200 — at worlds in Berlin in 2009.</p>
<p>Since then, only one other runner, Yohan Blake, has cracked 9.7 in the 100, and only Blake has run faster than 19.3 in the 200.</p>
<p>American Noah Lyles is the only sprinter to be outspoken about putting Bolt's marks in his sites. Lyles caused a stir in 2023 when he said he was thinking about times of 9.65 and 19.10, saying "I have a good reason to believe I'm going to do something I've never done before."</p>
<p>Lyles pulled off a Bolt-like feat by winning both sprints at worlds that year, but he has yet to surpass the 19.31 he ran at the 2022 worlds to break Michael Johnson's long-held American record.</p>
<p>This year's fastest 100 meters was posted by another Jamaican, Kishane Thompson, whose 9.75 makes him a favorite heading into Sunday's final expected to include Lyles, American Kenny Bednarek and another Jamaican, Oblique Seville.</p>
<p>Bolt predicted a 1-2 Jamaican finish, with Thompson and Seville at the top of the podium.</p>
<p>"It's all about if they can execute — not listen to the noise and go execute," Bolt said.</p>
<p>With his upright stride and 6-foot frame, Australia's 17-year-old Gout Gout has drawn comparisons to Bolt, in part because Gout is slightly ahead of where Bolt was, time-wise, when he was 17.</p>
<p>Could Gout be the man to break one of Bolt's records?</p>
<p>"It's always easy when you're younger," Bolt said. "The transition to seniors from juniors is always tougher. It's all about getting the right coach, getting the right people around you."</p>
<p>Bolt said improvements in track surfaces and shoes — Puma, for instance, released results of a study that concluded he would've run 9.42 in Berlin wearing today's shoes — make it inevitable his records will fall someday. Just not now.</p>
<p>"Everything evolves in life, people trying to get better, trying to get faster," he said. "It's not going to be a surprise if it actually happens."</p>
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