{"id":3064,"date":"2011-09-15T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2011\/09\/15\/bolt-wants-to-shine-on-memorial\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:51:00","slug":"bolt-wants-to-shine-on-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2011\/09\/15\/bolt-wants-to-shine-on-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt wants to shine on Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Without a doubt the main star at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme on Friday is Usain Bolt. The Jamaican sprint sensation aims to run a world year best at the 100m in the King Baudouin stadium.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>In fact, the 100 metres was added to the program at the specific request of <strong>Bolt<\/strong>. So far the fastest time of the year is still by his fellow Jamaican <strong>Asafa Powell<\/strong> (9.78). It was a tired but cheery Bolt who addressed the press on Wednesday in the athletes&#8217; hotel in <strong>Brussels<\/strong>. On Tuesday he had participated in the World Challenge meeting in the <strong>Zagreb<\/strong>, Croatia, and he arrived in Brussels on Wednesday morning . Yet the Jamaican is ready for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m really looking forward to this&quot;, he said. &quot;I really want this world year best and I feel good. I think I have it in me to run the fastest time of the year. The track in Brussels is simply excellent &quot;, the triple Olympic champion of <strong>Beijing<\/strong> said. It is Bolt&#8217;s fourth participation in the Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is always nice to be at the Memorial. There is always a great atmosphere and the fans are brilliant, and loud. That gives me a great deal of energy,&quot; Lightning Bolt explained. On Tuesday he ran 9.85 in Zagreb, his fastest time in the 100m this season. &quot;Still, I am not entirely happy about that race. I did not feel good at the start, and for a few seconds lost my focus too. Luckily I was able to regain my senses&quot;, Bolt said.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the Jamaican won two gold medals at the World Championships in <strong>Daegu<\/strong>, <strong>South Korea<\/strong>, in the 200m and 4x100m. He missed out on his final in the 100 m race, after a false start. &quot;Whether I&#8217;m more nervous at the start now? Not really, but it does linger on in my mind a bit,&quot; he admitted. &quot;As a professional, I have to learn to deal with such matters,&quot; said the 100m world record holder (9.58), who is still convinced he can run faster. &quot;There&#8217;s always room for improvement. For example, the first 30 to 40 metres in the 100m race&quot;, he said. &#8216;By continuing to work hard, I think that I can ran faster still&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After a long and strenuous season quite some athletes will not take part in the Memorial on Friday, but Bolt said Wednesday to not be exhausted quite yet. &quot;Mentally I&#8217;m not tired yet. Had everything gone well at the Worlds, I might have been more relaxed, but right now I want to dig in deep one more time. I do hope I can conclude this season in a beautiful manner, so that I can start next season with a good feeling. &quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt the main star at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme on Friday is Usain Bolt. The...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}