LONDON – The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, has claimed he wants to try out the long jump before the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil.Bolt, the 100m, 200m and 4x100m sprint relay winner at the London 2012 Olympics, was keen to end speculation that he may retire before Rio. However, he claimed he might be competing in different events in four years’ time.“It’s just about making different goals, there’s a lot of things I can do in the sport,” Bolt said on Sky News. “My coach wants me to do 400m, I want to try long jump.“I could always try to aim for the records again, so there’s different things, but after the season we’ll decide what we want to do and work on that next season.”If Bolt were to switch to long jump, he would be following the example of American sprinter Carl Lewis, winner of back-to-back Olympic 100m titles in 1984 and 1988, who was also a four-times gold medal winner in the long jump from 1984 to 1996.
